Grammar for Sentence Combining: Underpinning Knowledge for Adult Literacy Practitioners
This clearly written and accessible guide outlines the principles of sentence combining: the technique for expanding sentence structure by creating compound and complex sentences from simple sentences.
The book covers an effective grammar teaching strategy demonstrated to improve the quality of learners' writing and relates concepts to practical teaching strategies. It is a user-friendly accessible resource for teachers to use for their continuing professional development and to support classroom practice. It is a recommended text for adult literacy training courses, and for general degree-level language and literacy courses as an introduction to the subject.
In its first edition, Social Linguistics and Literacies was a major contribution to the emerging interdisciplinary field of sociocultural approaches to language and literacy, and was one of the founding texts of the ‘New Literacy Studies’. This book serves as a classic introduction to the study of language, learning and literacy in their social, cultural and political contexts. It shows how contemporary sociocultural approaches to language and literacy emerged.
