Articles back to Volume 1 (1967) now available online - see below
Literacy
Published on behalf of the United Kingdom Literacy Association
Edited by:
Kathy Hall
Literacy is a refereed journal for those interested in the study and development of literacy. Its readership comprises practitioners, teacher educators, researchers and both undergraduate and graduate students. Literacy offers educators a forum for debate through scrutinising research evidence, reflecting on analysed accounts of innovative practice and examining recent policy developments.
TopNews and Announcements
UKLA/Wiley-Blackwell Research in Literacy Education Award
This award, launched in 2008, is given annually for research published in either of UKLA's journals - Literacy and Journal of Research in Reading - judged to be exemplary in terms of the selection criteria applied in both journals. The award is sponsored by Wiley-Blackwell, the publisher of UKLA's journals. The award was presented at the annual International Conference dinner in Greenwich on July 11th 2009.
Journal of Research in Reading 2009 Winner:
Children's inference generation across different media
P. Kendeou, C. Bohn-Gettler, M.J. White, P. van der Broek
Literacy 2009 Winner:
Teachers as readers: Building communities of readers
T. Cremin, M. Mottram, F. Collins, S. Powell, K. Safford
Journal of Research in Reading 2008 Winner:
Deriving word meanings from context: does explanation facilitate contextual analysis?
Kate Cain
Literacy 2008 Winner:
Teachers are digikids too: the digital histories and digital lives of young teachers in English primary schools
Lynda Graham
Guidelines for Submission to Literacy
Literacy has now adopted ScholarOne Manuscripts, for online manuscript submission and peer review. The new system brings with it a whole host of benefits including:
- Quick and easy submission
- Administration centralised and reduced
- Significant decrease in peer review times
From now on all submissions to the journal must be submitted online at http://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/literacy. Full instructions and support are available on the site and a user ID and password can be obtained on the first visit. If you require assistance then click the Get Help Now link which appears at the top right of every ScholarOne Manuscripts page. If you cannot submit online, please contact Kathy Hall in the Editorial Office by e-mail (k.hall@ucc.ie).
All issues back to Volume 1 (1967) are now available online. Click here to browse.
For more information about Literacy digitized backfiles, including pricing and licensing options for institutions, please click here.
National Literacy Trust
If you would like to visit the National Literacy Trust web site click here.
TopHighlights
Recent Special Issues:
Literacy and Identity (Volume 43, Issue 2, July 2009)
Guest Edited by Guy Merchant and Victoria Carrington
Literacy as a Complex Activity(Volume 42, Issue 2, July 2008)
Guest Edited by Myra Barrs, Gordon Pradl, Kathy Hall and Henrietta Dombey
Teacher Education and Development (Volume 40, Issue 2, July 2006)
Guest Edited by Julie Hamston, Victoria Risko and Viv Ellis
Creativity and Literacy (Volume 41, Issue 2, July 2007)
Guest Edited by Teresa Cremin, Barbara Comber and Shelby Wolf
Key Articles:
Towards a literacy of fusion: new times, new teaching and learning?
Elaine Millard
Rethinking literacy: communication, representation and text
Eve Bearne
From scripted instruction to teacher empowerment: supporting literacy teachers to make pedagogical transitions
Zhihui Fang, Danling Fu and Linda Leonard Lamme
"What goes on inside my head when I'm writing?" A case study of 8-9 year old boys
Kate Ruttle
Constructs of teacher professionalism within a changing literacy landscape
Hazel Bryan
Focus in creative learning: drawing on art for language development
Shirley Brice Heath and Shelby Wolf
Boxing clever: using shoeboxes to support home-school knowledge exchange
Pamela Greenhough, Mary Scanlan, Anthony Feiler, David Johnson, Wang Ching Yee, Jane Andrews, Alison Price, Maggie Smithson and Martin Hughes
Holy Lemons! Learning from children's uses of the internet in out-of-school contexts
Cathy Burnett and Jeff Wilkinson
