TY - BOOK AU - Street,Brian V. AU - Lefstein,Adam TI - Literacy: an advanced resource book T2 - Routledge applied linguistics SN - 9780415291811 (pbk.) AV - LC149 .S76 2007 U1 - 302.2/244 22 PY - 2007/// CY - London, New York PB - Routledge KW - Literacy KW - Literacy programs KW - Reading N1 - Includes bibliographical references (p. 247-264) and index; Why study literacy? -- Organisation of the book -- Keywords -- Encounters with literacy -- Academic study of literacy : mapping the field -- Meanings of "literacy" in different traditions -- Literacy acquisition -- Consequences of literacy : the literacy thesis -- Literacy as social practice -- New literacies -- Keywords -- Educational terms -- Anthropological terms -- Psychological terms -- Literacy acquisition -- Beginning to read -- Whole language -- Social challenges and policy -- Literacy in schools -- Consequences of literacy -- The great divide -- Testing the literacy thesis -- Autonomous versus ideological models of literacy -- Demythologising literacy -- Literacy as social practice -- Literacy practices -- Literacy and identity -- Multilingual literacies -- Literacies at work -- The literacy thesis resisted -- Exploring literacy as social practice -- Investigating literacy practices : an ethnographic perspective -- Literacy log -- Literacy and education -- Phonics, whole language, and English orthography -- Children's literature : code, content, and practice -- Academic literacies -- Literacy at large -- Workplace literacies -- Everyday writing in modern society -- International policy and practice in the literacy field -- "Literacy problems" and the mass media UR - http://catdir.loc.gov/catdir/toc/ecip0721/2007025928.html ER -