...Emma Bene; Stephanie M. Robillard Purpose Using a discourse analytic approach, the purpose of this paper is to examine how genre impacts white readers when reading about historic acts of racial violence. Specifically, this study explores one white high school student’s stance-taking as she read...

...) incidental acquisition of vocabulary through the reading of an authentic novel. Design/methodology/approach Participants read A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess, a 58,686 token (word) English language novel containing Slovos, that is, words from Nadsat, a futuristic, foreignized teen talk...

... discourse analysis of classroom interactions, the author uses data from instructional conversations to illustrate how students and their teachers collaboratively perform relational-keys. Findings Findings reveal that students and their teacher perform relational and intellectual stances toward reading...

...Courtney Shimek Purpose Our world had always been multimodal, but studying how young children enact and embody literacy practices, especially reading, has often been overlooked. The purpose of this study was to examine how young children respond to nonfiction picturebooks in multimodal ways...

...Barry Lee Reynolds Purpose This study aims to investigate the effects of word internal morphological form variation on adult first language (L1) (n = 20) incidental vocabulary acquisition through reading. Design/methodology/approach Participants were given a 37,611-token English novel...

...Donna Wineland Purpose The purpose for this paper is to encourage teachers to change the way they approach teaching literature to proficient and accelerated readers or alliterates. With class time devoted to quiet reading, student-selected materials, meaningful discussions and quality assessment...

...Prof. Hilary Janks ,Prof. Debra Myhill ,Prof. Mary Ryan; Lionel Warner; Caroline Crolla Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to investigate why reading aloud (RA), both by teachers and students, is such a common practice in high school classrooms. In particular, this investigation considers...