Journal of Research in Reading
Published on behalf of the United Kingdom Literacy Association
Edited by:
Clare Wood
ISI Journal Citation Reports® Ranking: 2010: Psychology, Educational: 29 / 50; Education & Educational Research: 61 / 177
Impact Factor: 0.938
Journal of Research in Reading provides an international forum for researchers into literacy. It is a refereed journal, principally devoted to reports of empirical studies in reading and related fields, and to informed reviews of relevant literature. The journal welcomes papers researching issues related to the learning, teaching and use of literacy in a variety of contexts; papers on the history and development of literacy; papers about policy and strategy for literacy as related to children and adults. Journal of Research in Reading encourages papers within any research paradigm and from researchers in any relevant field such as anthropology, cultural studies, education, history of education, language and linguistics, philosophy, psychology and sociology.
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Recent Special Issue freely available online! Writing Development: Cognitive, Sociocultural, Linguistics Perspectives
Dr. Ros Fisher and Prof. Debra Myhill guest edit this recent Special Issue, covering the full range of development of writing from very young children learning about writing together with their parents to young adults at university writing at a more advanced level. Click here to read the Special Issue online today.
Journal of Research in Reading Virtual Issue: Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Reading
This Virtual Issue of Journal of Research in Reading includes a cross-section of papers from recent issues of the Journal that have presented data on key contemporary issues in reading and on how to support the development of reading. These papers represent a broad range of topics with international relevance and diverse methodologies, drawn from a variety of complementary disciplines. Click here to read the Virtual Issue online today.
The Annual UKLA and Wiley-Blackwell Research in Literacy Award
This award, launched in 2008, is given annually for research judged to be exemplary in either of UKLA's journals - Journal of Research in Reading and Literacy.
Award winners 2010:
Journal of Research in Reading
Flexibility in young second-language learners: examining the language specificity of orthographic processing
Deacon, S. Hélène; Wade-Woolley, Lesly; Kirby, John R.
Volume 32, issue 2 (May 2009)
Literacy
Impressions, improvisations and compositions: reframing children's text production in social network sites
Dowdall, C.
Volume 43, issue 2 (July 2009)
Previous winners:
Journal of Research in Reading 2009
Children's inference generation across different media
P. Kendeou, C. Bohn-Gettler, M.J. White, P. van der Broek
Literacy 2009
Teachers as readers: Building communities of readers
T. Cremin, M. Mottram, F. Collins, S. Powell, K. Safford
Journal of Research in Reading 2008
Deriving word meanings from context: does explanation facilitate contextual analysis?
K. Cain
Literacy 2008
Teachers are digikids too: the digital histories and digital lives of young teachers in English primary schools
L.Graham
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