Viv Edwards

Gebundenes Buch

Learning to Be Literate

Multilingual Perspectives

Beschreibung

This textbook introduces students to language in education policy, theory and practice in a multilingual world. Designed to be accessible to students from a wide range of disciplines, it explores multilingualism at the individual and societal level and its impact on literacy learning around the world.

Autor

Viv Edwards is Professor of Language in Education at the University of Reading where she is also Director of the National Centre for Language and Literacy. She is editor of the international journal Language and Education and has researched and published widely in the areas of multilingualism and education. Her book on Multilingualism in the English-speaking World received the 2005 British Association for Applied Linguistics book award. She is also a fellow of the Royal Society for Arts.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Channel View Publications
• Seitenzahl: 152
• Erscheinungstermin: 17. Februar 2009
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 244mm x 173mm x 13mm
• Gewicht: 431g
• ISBN-13: 9781847690616
• ISBN-10: 1847690610
• Artikelnr.: 35735056