Writing/Reading Interface
Edited by Terry Joyce and Constanze Weth
Special issue of Written Language & Literacy 28:1 (2025) v, 170 pp.
BISAC SubjectsLANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Literacy
Digital Social Reading and Second Language Learning and Teaching
Edited by Joshua J. Thoms and Kristen Michelson
Rapid changes in communication channels, tools, and conventions of interaction over the last two decades have paved the way for increasingly digital learning environments. In second language (L2) education, shifts toward digital learning and teaching were intensified during the pandemic and many… read more[AILA Applied Linguistics Series, 21] 2024. ix, 193 pp.
Transformative Reading
Olivia Fialho
Transformative Reading belongs to a growing tradition of studies investigating the functions of aesthetic experiences in our lives. Philosophers, literary theorists, and psychologists have suggested that aesthetic experiences implicate and develop our sense of ourselves. Literary texts, as one such… read more[Linguistic Approaches to Literature, 42] 2024. xii, 263 pp.
On the Systematic Nature of Writing Systems
Edited by David F. Mora-Marín and Lynne Cahill
Special issue of Written Language & Literacy 26:1 (2023) v, 153 pp.
Spelling Acquisition in Cross-linguistic Settings
Edited by Susie Russak and Elena Zaretsky
Special issue of Written Language & Literacy 25:1 (2022) v, 132 pp.
Diversity in Writing Systems: Embracing multiple perspectives
Edited by Amalia E. Gnanadesikan and Anna P. Judson
Special issue of Written Language & Literacy 24:2 (2021) v, 169 pp.
Literacies in Contact
Edited by Manuela Böhm and Constanze Weth
Special issue of Written Language & Literacy 23:2 (2020) v, 180 pp.
Biscriptuality: Writing skills among German-Russian adolescents
Irina Usanova
In the context of constantly increasing linguistic diversity in many parts of the world, opportunities and challenges arise for the acquisition of literacy skills. The successful development of literacy skills becomes a crucial prerequisite for educational attainment determining future career… read more[Hamburg Studies on Linguistic Diversity, 8] 2019. xvi, 257 pp.
Current Perspectives on Literary Reading
Edited by Dari Escandell and José Rovira-Collado
This collection aims to provide answers regarding what the most recent trends are in research in literary reading. Based on that premise, it contains a rigorously selected and varied roster of investigations that focus on presenting and attempting to interpret and understand the most recent… read more[IVITRA Research in Linguistics and Literature, 22] 2019. x, 186 pp.
Narrative, Literacy and Other Skills: Studies in intervention
Edited by Edy Veneziano and Ageliki Nicolopoulou
In recent years, narrative skills have been receiving increasing attention from researchers for their relevance in the development of language, literacy and socio-cognitive abilities. This volume brings together studies focusing on two key issues in the development of children’s narrative skills.… read more[Studies in Narrative, 25] 2019. xix, 318 pp.
Writing Systems: Past, present (… and future?)
Edited by Terry Joyce and Robert Crellin
Special issue of Written Language & Literacy 22:2 (2019) v, 142 pp.
Form-function Relations in Narrative Development: How Anna became a writer
E. Birgitta Svensson
This book provides insights into the development toward narrative competence, and illustrates multifaceted patterns in the developing capacity to create globally coherent narrative texts. The methodology draws from both a psycholinguistic approach to narrative development, systemic functional… read more[Studies in Narrative, 24] 2018. xi, 297 pp.
Understanding Writing Systems
Edited by Merijn Beeksma and Martin Neef
Special issue of Written Language & Literacy 21:1 (2018) v, 145 pp.
Orthographic Databases and Lexicons
Edited by Lynne Cahill and Terry Joyce
Special issue of Written Language & Literacy 20:1 (2017) v, 127 pp.
Cross-linguistic Transfer in Reading in Multilingual Contexts
Edited by Elena Zaretsky and Mila Schwartz
This book represents concurrent attempts of multiple researchers to address the issue of cross-linguistic transfer in literacy. It includes broad spectrum of languages and reflects a new generation of conceptualizations of cross-linguistic transfer, offering a different level of complexity by… read more[Benjamins Current Topics, 89] 2016. ix, 183 pp.
The Historical Sociolinguistics of Spelling
Edited by Laura Villa and Rik Vosters
Special issue of Written Language & Literacy 18:2 (2015) v, 125 pp.
Writing(s) at the Crossroads: The process–product interface
Edited by Georgeta Cislaru
This volume aims at contributing to an interpretive approach to writing and its dynamics. It offers a general scope on the process-product interface by multiplying the points of view on both the process and the product and their links. The book presents new findings and perspectives in the study of… read more
Cross-linguistic transfer in reading in multilingual contexts – recent research trends
Edited by Elena Zaretsky and Mila Schwartz
Special issue of Written Language & Literacy 17:1 (2014) ix, 171 pp.
Reading for Learning: Cognitive approaches to children's literature
Maria Nikolajeva
How does reading fiction affect young people? How can they transfer fictional experience into real life? Why do they care about fictional characters? How does fiction enhance young people's sense of self-hood? Supported by cognitive psychology and brain research, this ground-breaking book is the… read more[Children’s Literature, Culture, and Cognition, 3] 2014. viii, 247 pp.
The architecture of writing systems
Edited by Kristian Berg, Franziska Buchmann and Nanna Fuhrhop
Special issue of Written Language & Literacy 17:2 (2014) viii, 142 pp.
Emergent Literacy: Children's books from 0 to 3
Edited by Bettina Kümmerling-Meibauer
This edited volume constitutes the first serious, sustained examination of the study of children’s books for children aged from 0 to 3 with contributions by scholars working in different domains and attempting to assess the recognition of the role and influence of children’s literature on the… read more[Studies in Written Language and Literacy, 13] 2011. vi, 275 pp.
Poetry as Research: Exploring second language poetry writing
David I. Hanauer
Poetry as Research develops an approach that allows poetry writing to be used as a research method for exploring questions relating to second language learners and more broadly for studies within the humanities and social sciences. The book investigates the characteristics of poetry writing and… read more[Linguistic Approaches to Literature, 9] 2010. xiii, 164 pp.