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Handbook of Research on Teaching Literacy Through the Communicative and Visual Arts

Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, 2004

The Handbook of Research on Teaching Literacy Through the Communicative and Visual Arts, a comprehensive overview of research on this topic, extends conceptualizations of literacy to include all of the communicative arts (reading, writing, speaking, listening, viewing) and the visual arts of drama, dance, film, art, video, and computer...

Communication of Complex Information: User Goals and Information Needs for Dynamic Web Information

Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, 2004

Technical communicators and information designers are increasingly being called upon to address information needs which go beyond providing step-by-step instructions and involve assistance in addressing open-ended situations and problems. Situationsand problems that can only be addressed by providing information specific to a situation and...

Handbook for Research in Cooperative Education and internships

Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, 2003

Finally, a research handbook focused on the field of experiential education!....The handbook is a great starting place for anyone in the field of work-based learning. It can provide a good orientation to what we already know about this kind of experiential learning, can raise questions about what we have not yet considered, and provides...

The Essence of Multivariate Thinking: Basic Themes and Methods (Multivariate Applications)

Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, 2005

The Essence of Multivariate Thinking is intended to make multivariate statistics more accessible to a wide audience. To encourage a more thorough understanding of multivariate methods, author Lisa Harlow suggests basic themes that run through most statistical methodology. The most pervasive theme is multiplicity. The author argues that the...

Learner-Centered Theory and Practice in Distance Education: Cases From Higher Education

Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, 2003

Learner-Centered Theory and Practice in Distance Education: Cases From Higher Education brings the voice of the learning sciences to the study and design of distance learning. The contributors examine critical issues in the design of theoretically and pedagogically based distance education programs.

Eight distance education...

Teaching Academic ESL Writing: Practical Techniques in Vocabulary and Grammar (ESL and Applied Linguistics Professional)

Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, 2003

This work attempts to fill an important gap in teacher professional preparation by focusing on the grammatical and lexical features that are essential for all ESL writing teachers and student-writers to know. The fundamental assumption is that before students of English for academic purposes can begin to successfully produce academic writing, they...

Usability Evaluation: A Special Issue of the International Journal of Human-Computer Interaction

Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, 2002

This article is an extended version of a keynote address presented at the 9th International Conference on Human–Computer Interaction held in New Orleans, August 5 through 10, 2001. The article presents an overview of issues pertaining to the development of a user-friendly information society, and introduces 3 concepts for improving the...

Methods of Historical Analysis in Electronic Media (Lea's Communication Series)

Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, 2005

Methods of Historical Analysis in Electronic Media provides a foundation for historical research in electronic media by addressing the literature and the methods—traditional and the eclectic methods of scholarship as applied to electronic media. It is about history—broadcast electronic media history and history that has been broadcast,...

Marketing Fear in America's Public Schools: The Real War on Literacy

Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, 2004

We begin and end this book with chapters on resistance to the agendas of the corporate and political right. In chapter two, Carole Edelsky provocatively outlines both the problem of and the resistance to the marketing of fear being perpetuated by the corporate and political right. She uncovers how teachers known for their critical, holistic...

Perspectives on Classifier Constructions in Sign Languages

Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, 2003

Classifier constructions are universal to sign languages and exhibit unique properties that arise from the nature of the visual-gestural modality. The major goals are to bring to light critical issues related to the study of classifier constructions and to present state-of-the-art linguistic and psycholinguistic analyses of these constructions. It...

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