Literacies and Learners

The new edition of the best selling Literacies and Learners continues to provide a contemporary and practical introduction to literacy and language education. Written in an accessible manner for beginning primary and early childhood student teachers, the text explores the complex and changing world of effective literacy and language instruction. It encourages the study of the field to be both a personal and social journey.  The editors draw on their academic and classroom experience to provide an excellent mix of theory and practice. Similarly, the book covers all the major theories and issues in modern literacy and language. This includes coverage of traditional domains such as print, reading, writing, plus grammar; balanced with modern literacy concepts such as multiliteracies, models of language acquisition and assessment, and socio-cultural influences and discourses. The major themes of the first edition continue to form a guiding framework in this second edition. Firstly, the acknowledgement that language is a social practice that takes place in discourses. Secondly, that there are multiple literacies and these need to be recognised and catered for in both diverse classrooms and society. Thirdly, that a modern society demands that citizens be critically literate on a number of different levels.