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DIMENSIONS OF LITERACY: A CONCEPTUAL BASE FOR TEACHING READING AND WRITING IN SCHOOL SETTINGS. Stephen Kucer. Mahwah, NJ: Erlbaum, 2001. Pp. x + 304. $59.95 cloth, $29.95 paper.NEGOTIATING CRITICAL LITERACIES IN CLASSROOMS. Barbara Comber and Anne Simpson (Eds.). Mahwah, NJ: Erlbaum, 2001. Pp. xxii + 290. $79.95 cloth, $29.95 paper.

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  04 August 2003

Ellen Cushman
Ellen Cushman
Affiliation:
Michigan State University
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Abstract

Preservice kindergarten through university teachers will benefit from these books' overview of the field and their carefully weighed claims about what counts as literacy practices in language arts and English classrooms. Though geared more toward a general audience of literacy teachers, the books do have sections and chapters that would appeal to preservice second language teachers. The straightforward writing in both books will be easily accessible to students for whom this may be the first encounter with literacy and classroom research. Taking different tacks on literacy research, the books complement each other well: Where Kucer's survey stops, the Comber and Simpson collection picks up.

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Book Review
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Studies in Second Language Acquisition , Volume 25 , Issue 3 , September 2003 , pp. 451 - 453
Copyright
2003 Cambridge University Press

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