Training Readers and Writers for a Multimodal and Multimedia Society: Cognitive Aspects

Training Readers and Writers for a Multimodal and Multimedia Society: Cognitive Aspects
Author: Ester Trigo-Ibanez
Publisher: Frontiers Media SA
Total Pages: 101
Release: 2024-02-07
Genre: Science
ISBN: 2832544460

Contemporary societies have been advancing gradually towards the construction of a model of a literate population. Significant efforts have been made so that most citizens can access various sources today, using their reading and writing abilities, but are we really prepared to face the information age? Is information literacy being promoted from schools? Are individual capabilities being considered? Do we have a true critical literacy? This article collection aims to show an overview of the most recent research; ranging from the individual to the collective, from the subject's competencies and their beliefs, to the way to develop them from school. There is room in this Research Topic for investigations belonging to the linguistic, psychological, and didactic field. This Research Topic aims to address a pressing problem in contemporary world societies. It is proposed to offer various contributions related to critical literacy, in general, and reading and writing. In this sense, research that addresses analog and digital reading, writing processes, academic literacy, and the use of resources such as non-fiction illustrated books to develop critical thinking, will be welcome. But also, and in a very important way, the cognitive processes of the subject will be considered, not only to deal with access to information, but also in the construction of their mental lexicon, an issue that offers the vision of the world of those who are immersed in literacy and in the post-truth era.

Teaching Writing in the Health Professions

Teaching Writing in the Health Professions
Author: Michael J. Madson
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 322
Release: 2021-11-11
Genre: Medical
ISBN: 1000475395

This collection provides a research-based guide to instructional practices for writing in the health professions, promoting faculty development and bringing together perspectives from writing studies, technical communication, and health humanities. With employment in health-care sectors booming, writing instruction tailored for the health professions is in high demand. Writing instruction is critical in the health professions because health professionals, current and aspiring, need to communicate persuasively with patients, peers, mentors, and others. Writing instruction can also help cultivate professional identity, reflective practice, empathy, critical thinking, confidence, and organization, as well as research skills. This collection prepares faculty and administrators to meet this demand. It combines conceptual development of writing for the health professions as an emergent interdiscipline with evidence-based practices for instructors in academic, clinical, and community settings. Teaching Writing in the Health Professions is an essential resource for instructors, scholars, and program administrators in health disciplines, professional and technical communication, health humanities, and interdisciplinary writing studies. It informs the teaching of writing in programs in medicine, nursing, pharmacy and allied health, public health, and other related professions.

The Routledge Handbook of Hispanic Applied Linguistics

The Routledge Handbook of Hispanic Applied Linguistics
Author: Manel Lacorte
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 717
Release: 2014-09-19
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 1134691416

This book provides a comprehensive overview of Hispanic applied linguistics, allowing students to understand the field from a variety of perspectives and offering insight into the ever-growing number of professional opportunies afforded to Spanish language program graduates. The goal of this book is to re-contextualize the notion of applied linguistics as simply the application of theoretical linguistic concepts to practical settings and to consider it as its own field that addresses language-based issues and problems in a real-world context. The book is organized into five parts: 1) perspectives on learning Spanish 2) issues and environments in Spanish teaching 3) Spanish in the professions 4) the discourses of Spanish and 5) social and political contexts for Spanish. The book’s all-inclusive coverage gives students the theoretical and sociocultural context for study in Hispanic applied linguistics while offering practical information on its application in the professional sector.

Forging Multilingual Spaces

Forging Multilingual Spaces
Author: Christine Hélot
Publisher: Multilingual Matters
Total Pages: 275
Release: 2008
Genre: Education
ISBN: 1847690750

This book is the first to propose an integrated approach to the study of bilingual education in minority and majority settings. Contributions from well-known scholars working in eight different countries in Europe and the Americas show that it is possible to bridge the gap between prestigious elite bilingualism and the bilingualism of minority communities and work towards the construction of multilingual spaces.

Patterns of Text

Patterns of Text
Author: Mike Scott
Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing
Total Pages: 333
Release: 2001-02-27
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 9027298491

It is increasingly clear that, in order to understand language as a phenomenon, we must understand the phenomenon of text. Our primary experience of language comes in the form of texts, which embody the complete communicative events through which our language-using lives are lived. These events are shaped by communicative needs, and this shaping is reflected in certain characteristic patterns in the texts. However, the nature of texts and text is still elusive: we know which forms are typically found in text but we do not yet have a full grasp of how they constitute its textuality, how they make a text “tick”. The twelve contributions to this volume show how texts across a wide range of text types hold together by different patterns of chunking and linking. The common purpose in all the contributions is to explore the nature of text patterning as the functional environment within which language operates.

Traditions of Writing Research

Traditions of Writing Research
Author: Charles Bazerman
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 461
Release: 2009-10-16
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 113584996X

Traditions of Writing Research reflects the various styles of work offered at the Writing Research Across Borders conference. This volume, like the conference that it grew out of, will bring new perspectives to the rich dialogue of contemporary research on writing and advance understanding of this complex and important human activity.

Lectura y escritura académica en la Universidad del Valle. Caracterización de prácticas y tendencias

Lectura y escritura académica en la Universidad del Valle. Caracterización de prácticas y tendencias
Author: Gloria Rincón
Publisher: Universidad del Valle
Total Pages: 282
Release: 2013-03-26
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 9587656296

¿A qué se deben las dificultades que los estudiantes están enfrentando en la apropiación del conocimiento de campos de saber específico? Tienen estas dificultades que ver con sus modos de leer y escribir? ;Qué hace la Universidad al respecto Preguntas como estas hacen parte de las agendas de los investigadores interesados en responder a la hipótesis según la cual los problemas de lectura y escritura académica que enfrentan los jóvenes que ingresan a la Universidad son externos al espacio formativo universitario y se deben haber resuelto previamente. Frente a esta consideración, en este trabajo se plantea que la alfabetización académica, más que un estado se concibe como un proceso continuo y dinámico que se debe entender en su especificidad. En este sentido, precisan que las prácticas de lectura y escritura que se exigen en la educación superior son también específicas, por lo cual es necesario trabajar con quienes ingresan en este nivel formativo en la perspectiva de resolver su relación con las nuevas lógicas de comprensión y producción del conocimiento. Los autores hacen un llamado para que los aportes de este tipo de investigaciones se articulen a las directrices curriculares sobre lectura y escritura en la Universidad, de manera que se propicien nuevas orientaciones didácticas y pedagógicas que contribuyan a la formación integral. Frente a esta consideración, en este trabajo se plantea que la alfabetización académica, más que un estado se concibe como un proceso continuo y dinámico que se debe entender en su especificidad. En este sentido, precisan que las prácticas de lectura y escritura que se exigen en la educación superior son también específicas, por lo cual es necesario trabajar con quienes ingresan en este nivel formativo en la perspectiva de resolver su relación con las nuevas lógicas de comprensión y producción del conocimiento. Los autores hacen un llamado para que los aportes de este tipo de investigaciones se articulen a las directrices curriculares sobre lectura y escritura en la Universidad, de manera que se propicien nuevas orientaciones didácticas y pedagógicas que contribuyan a la formación integral.

The Routledge Handbook of Spanish Language Teaching

The Routledge Handbook of Spanish Language Teaching
Author: Javier Muñoz-Basols
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 866
Release: 2018-10-17
Genre: Foreign Language Study
ISBN: 1317294181

The Routledge Handbook of Spanish Language Teaching: metodologías, contextos y recursos para la enseñanza del español L2, provides a comprehensive, state-of-the-art account of the main methodologies, contexts and resources in Spanish Language Teaching (SLT), a field that has experienced significant growth world-wide in recent decades and has consolidated as an autonomous discipline within Applied Linguistics. Written entirely in Spanish, the volume is the first handbook on Spanish Language Teaching to connect theories on language teaching with methodological and practical aspects from an international perspective. It brings together the most recent research and offers a broad, multifaceted view of the discipline. Features include: Forty-four chapters offering an interdisciplinary overview of SLT written by over sixty renowned experts from around the world; Five broad sections that combine theoretical and practical components: Methodology; Language Skills; Formal and Grammatical Aspects; Sociocultural Aspects; and Tools and Resources; In-depth reflections on the practical aspects of Hispanic Linguistics and Spanish Language Teaching to further engage with new theoretical ideas and to understand how to tackle classroom-related matters; A consistent inner structure for each chapter with theoretical aspects, methodological guidelines, practical considerations, and valuable references for further reading; An array of teaching techniques, reflection questions, language samples, design of activities, and methodological guidelines throughout the volume. The Routledge Handbook of Spanish Language Teaching contributes to enriching the field by being an essential reference work and study material for specialists, researchers, language practitioners, and current and future educators. The book will be equally useful for people interested in curriculum design and graduate students willing to acquire a complete and up-to-date view of the field with immediate applicability to the teaching of the language.