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This bibliography is conceived as a starting point for continued, not basic, research and study in the areas of literacy and illiteracy. Chapter One deals with international and national research in literacy. The international research section is subdivided into sections pertaining to cross-cultural, cross-national, world literacy, and world regional research in literacy. The national research section lists countries alphabetically with the United States being further subdivided into general and state-by-state sections. Illiteracy and Unesco and literacy in the Third World are the subjects of Chapters Two and Three respectively. ... Read more

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Literacy is defined as the ability to read and write. One would expect that as the world enters the 21st century of the Third Millennium, we wouldn't even need to discuss such a topic. But alas, that is not the case. Even in the United States, the only so-called superpower left standing at the moment, the rate of illiteracy is astonishing. Some cynics say that there is no cause for alarm since the rich elite class needs millions of workers for low-paid jobs and the less educated the better. Others say that the lack of literacy is the fault of the schools and that if we double the pay of the teachers, they will somehow suddenly be interested in teaching. Still others say that with television and VCRs everywhere, who needs to read and write anyway. In this book we have collected citations, sorted and indexed them in a way which we hope will be useful for those seeking further information on this topic. At the beginning, we offer excerpts from some of the fundamental reports summarizing the dismal situation. ... Read more

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"Hladczuk's bibliography on literacy, which is the most comprehensive literacy/illiteracy bibliography available, covers every literacy `issue' currently in existence, including technological and mathematical literacy, aliteracy, and job literacy. Organized into 37 subject-oriented chapters, this bibliography provides approximately 3,000 citations. Most are dated from 1980 to the present. Although this work is a companion volume to Literacy/Illiteracy in the World. . . it can definitely stand alone. Author and subject indexes complete the volume. . . . Very highly recommended for all college and university collections." Choice ... Read more

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This practical, reader-friendly textbook for pre-service early childhood educators describes all of the major approaches and strategies for teaching beginning literacy to young children. It provides classroom-tested games, strategies, and reproducibles for teaching all of the word identification and comprehension techniques, including graphophonic (phonic) analysis and higher levels of comprehension. Strategies and materials for teaching listening skills, oral language skills, writing skills, and spelling skills to young children are included. Norm-referenced and informal means of assessment including authentic assessment are described. Strategies and materials for teaching literacy skills to children with many types of special needs is a major strength of the text as is the comprehensive description of all the major literacy approaches including the whole language approach , the language experience approach, the basal reader approach, and systematic phonics. ... Read more

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At last an indexing guide for editors, authors, and designers who need to create, edit, format, or evaluate indexes and work with professional indexers. Three experienced indexer-authors explain the various types of indexes, the characteristics of good indexes, and common formatting considerations. They share dozens of practical tips and over 100 examples of good and bad indexing practices. Publishing professionals will not only learn how to edit an index, but how to hire freelance indexers and maintain successful editor/author/indexer relationships. While geared to the needs of publishing professionals who are not indexers, the book will serve indexers as a guide to navigating the publishing process and explaining indexing processes to their clients. ... Read more

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This book is a MUST read for either the beginner or the professional.It's very well written and I consider it a basic, core title to learn all about the fundamentals of indexing plus the importance of communication between the Indexer/Author?Editor triangle. ... Read more

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The plan of the following Classification and Index was developed early in 1873. It was the result of several months' study of library economy as found in some hundreds of books and pamphlets, and in over fifty personal visits to various ... Read more

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Listening is a core skill within the English curriculum and the main medium for classroom learning, but it is difficult to assess objectively. The "Listening and Literacy Index" (ISBN 0-340-77529-7) is a standardized test of listening, reading and spelling for use with class groups of six- to nine-year-olds. This teacher's handbook offers advice on how to use the tests, and provides a diagnostic profile and norms, as well as detailed practical guidelines for scoring, interpretation and teaching follow-up. ... Read more

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This volume of the Index Emblematicus deals with three early seventeenth-century works: Remaines of a Greater Worke Concerning Britaine, by William Camden; The Mirrour of Maiestie, by H.G.; and Otto van Veen's Amorum Emblemata.Camden's Remaines is noteworthy for using imprese in languageas pictorial image; for mixing imprese with cognizance; and for considering impresa itself as the identity of the individual rather than as a general principle.H.G.'s Mirrour is remarkable in that every one of its emblems consists of a personal heraldic coat of arms of an identified statesman twinned with a pictorial engraving, motto, and epigram on an opposite page.Van Veen's Emblemata enters literary history as a volume of emblem pictures consecrated to secular love experience, encapsulating some of the conventions of the sonnet sequences and having a strong influence on religious love literature.

Each book is reproduced with critical and bibliographic introductions, translation of the poems and mottos, descriptions of the emblems, and indices to the visual and verbal components of the works. ... Read more

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"The plan of the following Classification and Index was developed early in 1873. It was the result of several months'' study of library economy as found in some hundreds of books and pamphlets, and in over fifty personal visits to various " ... Read more

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"This index was begun as a card index to the debaters'' manuals in the Reference Department of this Library. The increasing number of such manuals and the frequent requests for material on debates made it seem desirable to combine in one list the indexes to all the manuals, thus bringing references to all the material on one subject together and saving the time required to consult the index of each book." ... Read more

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This is an annual guide to books in the English language that brings together all aspects of literacy, with author and title indexes, divided into sections and subsections: books on literacy; books on particular strands of literacy; books on specific issues and reference books. ... Read more

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In the last two decades, lobbyists and interest groups of the New Right have presented literacy as an economic imperative, by an inverse process of blaming lack of economic competitiveness on those who lack skills needed for the New Work Order. Policy response in advanced capitalist countries has been to promote lifelong learning in the form of skills for work. This book offers the reader much more than an annotated review. Written by an experienced practitioner and consultant in workplace literacy, the review discusses theories in a way which makes them accessible and connected to practice. Texts are included which critique or support the rhetoric of the New Work Order, and an analysis is provided according to major themes: Crisis and Competitiveness, High Performance Workplaces and The Learning Organisation. These themes and the issues they present are explored in five advanced capitalist nations: Britain, Canada, the United States, Australia and New Zealand. The implications of the debate for literacy practice in the workplace are examined throughout. Finally, it includes a section of annotations and a bibliography.The book can be used as both an annotated reference for workplace literacy texts and as a discussion of themes and issues which need to be further explored. Aimed primarily at workplace literacy education organisers and practitioners, it is of interest to any researcher, adult educator, workplace trainer and trade unionist wanting to learn about organisational change and the implications for adult literacy. ... Read more

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The results of the dialect surveys of Great Britain have been published in the form of hundreds of single and collected maps, but so far there has been no actual handbook to the charted material. The Index to Dialect Maps of Great Britain, containing a full introduction, an alphabetical word-list and a comprehensive bibliography, fills this gap. As a compendious directory to mapped words' it provides not only a lexical compass in a cartographic jungle, but serves as a guide to the major dialect surveys (Survey of English Dialects, Survey of Anglo-Welsh Dialects, Linguistic Survey of Scotland) and the numerous publications they have spawned. All atlases as well as the maps in the many individual studies and scattered articles are fully documented. Each of the over 2000 lexical entries identifies the original survey by questionnaire number and gives a detailed list of all the references to printed maps in which these words and phrases are contained. The present volume will prove an indispensable guide for all researchers in the field of dialectology and linguistic variation, enabling its users to gain quick access to the various sources of maps. In this way the Index -- while still a simple work of reference -- may also furnish the materials for more thorough studies of map-making and its implications. ... Read more