The medieval development of the Augustinian doctrine of divine illumination, that God must illuminate the human mind in order to know certain intelligibles, has been heavily-studied by historians. Much of this literature follows older historiographical approaches separating the …
A comprehensive manual for pre- and in-service ESL, EFL, and EIL educators who work with multilingual students at the secondary and post-secondary levels, this text balances insights from reading theory and research with highly practical, field-tested strategies for teaching and…
Foundations of l1 and l2 literacy, reading, and learning to read -- L2 reading: focus on the reader -- L2 reading: focus on the text -- Vocabulary learning and teaching in l2 reading instruction -- Reading closely: designing an intensive reading lesson -- Reading for quantity: e…
A comprehensive manual for pre- and in-service ESL, EFL, and EIL educators who work with multilingual students at the secondary and post-secondary levels, this text balances insights from reading theory and research with highly practical, field-tested strategies for teaching and…
"Literacies, Literature and Learning: Reading Classrooms Differently attends to pressing questions in literacy education, such as the poor quality of many childrens experiences as readers, routine disregard for their thinking and the degrading impact of narrow skills measurement…
"Readers and Reading provides an excellent and wide-ranging introduction to the field of reading theory. This collection of important essays brings together and introduces recent developments in the field. It offers comprehensive coverage of all the important areas and looks bey…
"Readers and Reading provides an excellent and wide-ranging introduction to the field of reading theory. This collection of important essays brings together and introduces recent developments in the field. It offers comprehensive coverage of all the important areas and looks bey…
Falsehood and Fallacy shows students how to evaluate what they read in a digital age now that old institutional gatekeepers, such as the media or institutions of higher education, no longer hold a monopoly on disseminating knowledge. Short chapters cover the problems that exist …
"Falsehood and Fallacy shows students how to evaluate what they read in a digital age now that old institutional gatekeepers, such as the media or institutions of higher education, no longer hold a monopoly on disseminating knowledge. Short chapters cover the problems that exist…
A comprehensive manual for pre- and in-service ESL, EFL, and EIL educators who work with multilingual students at the secondary and post-secondary levels, this text balances insights from reading theory and research with highly practical, field-tested strategies for teaching and…
How you can enrich your life by becoming a more skillful and engaged reader of literatureWe are what we read, according to Robert DiYanni. Reading may delight us or move us; we may read for instruction or inspiration. But more than this, in reading we discover ourselves. We gain…
"Robert DiYanni's You Are What You Read is a guide for readers that seeks to restore the pleasures of reading lost in the digital age (and accounted for most eloquently by Sven Birkerts in The Gutenberg Elegies)"--