Comprehensive, authoritative, and designed for practical utility, this handbook presents evidence-based approaches for helping struggling readers and those at risk for literacy difficulties or delays. Leading experts explain how current research on all aspects of literacy translates into innovative classroom practices.
Beyond Decoding - The Behavioral and Biological Foundations of Reading Comprehension
What cognitive processes and skills do children draw on to make meaning from text? How are these capacities consolidated over the course of development? What puts some learners at risk for comprehension difficulties?
This authoritative volume presents state-of-the-science research on the behavioral and biological components of successful reading comprehension.
Foreign Language Teaching in Asia and Beyond: Current Perspectives and Future Directions (Studies in Second and Foreign Language Education)
This two part book focuses on the science and art of foreign language teaching in Asia and beyond. Part 1, "Theoretical foundation and research", examines theoretical and empirical research that has or will shape language teaching. Studies draw from work in linguistics and second language acquisition research. "Classroom practice and evaluation studies", part 2, turns to new and innovative developments in curricular and classroom practice, using qualitative and quantitative approaches and drawing from theoretical research in part one.
A fresh approach to bridging research design with statistical analysis While good social science requires both research design and statistical analysis, most books treat these two areas separately. Understanding and Applying Research Design introduces an accessible approach to integrating design and statistics, focusing on the processes of posing, testing, and interpreting research questions in the social sciences.The authors analyze real-world data using SPSS software, guiding readers on the overall process of science, focusing on premises, procedures, and designs of social scientific research.
This handbook comprises, in three volumes, an in-depth presentation of the state of the art in linguistic semantics from a wide variety of perspectives. It contains 112 articles written by leading scholars from around the world. These articles present detailed, yet accessible, introductions to key issues, including the analysis of specific semantic categories and constructions, the history of semantic research, theories and theoretical frameworks, methodology, and relationships with related fields;..
