Books written by Gunther Kress

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  Multimodal Teaching and Learning: The Rhetorics of the Science Classroom

  London: Taylor and Francis. Bitti, P. and Poggi, I. (1991) 'Symbolic nonverbal behaviour: talking through gestures', in R. Feldman and B. Rime (eds), Fundamentals of Nonverbal Behaviour. New York: Cambridge University Press.

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  English in Urban Classrooms: A Multimodal Perspective on Teaching and Learning

  This book offers a fascinating and enlightening read, not only to those involved in English teaching, but also to educational researchers, policymakers, linguists and those interested in semiotics and multi-modality.

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  English in Urban Classrooms: A Multimodal Perspective on Teaching and Learning

  ... Susan 94–6 Gewirtz, S. 15 Gibson, Rex 153–63 Gillborn, D. 85 Globe Education 154 government policies 1, 15–17, 143; setting 88 Grace, G. 16,85 'grammars' 19 Gregory, E. 117 Grosvenor, I. 38, 40 Hackman, S. 131 Halliday, Michael 20, ...

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  Language and Control

  First , The Times : RIOTING BLACKS SHOT DEAD BY POLICE AS ANC LEADERS MEET Eleven Africans were shot dead and 15 wounded when Rhodesian police opened fire on a rioting crowd of about 2,000 in the African Highfield township of Salisbury ...

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  Multimodality, Learning and Communication: A social semiotic frame

  With extensive illustrations and many examples presented to show the reach and applicability of the theory, this book is essential reading for all those working in multimodality, semiotics, applied linguistics and related areas.

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  Early Spelling: From Convention to Creativity

  Visuality, and the use of space, enables spelling to mimic what 'the thing spelled' is like. I have mentioned this several times already, though only in passing. I want to focus on that aspect of spelling now, in talking about the ...

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  Reading Images: The Grammar of Visual Design

  This third edition of the landmark textbook Reading Images builds on its reputation as the first systematic and comprehensive account of the grammar of visual design.

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  Before Writing: Rethinking the Paths to Literacy

  This book provides fundamental challenges to commonly held assumptions about both language and literacy, thought and action.

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  Learning as Social Practice: Beyond Education as an Individual Enterprise

  This book studies learning as a social enterprise, contextually situated, organized and assessed. It gives a broad theoretic grounding for an understanding of learning which goes beyond a common reductionist approach.

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  Learning to Write

  In this new edition, Gunther Kress has made extensive revisions in the light of recent developments in linguistics and in education.

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  Multimodality, Learning and Communication: A social semiotic frame

  With extensive illustrations and many examples presented to show the reach and applicability of the theory, this book is essential reading for all those working in multimodality, semiotics, applied linguistics and related areas.

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  Multimodal Teaching and Learning: The Rhetorics of the Science Classroom

  This book takes a radically different look at communication, and in doing so presents a series of challenges to accepted views on language, on communication, on teaching and, above all, on learning.

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  Reading Images: The Grammar of Visual Design

  This third edition of the landmark textbook Reading Images builds on its reputation as the first systematic and comprehensive account of the grammar of visual design.

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  Explaining Science in the Classroom

  The bridging of difference , dealing with it , is what drives communication . Conversely , where there is no ... It may be their job to explain : teachers and information officers fall into this category . Thus the difference at issue ...

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  Multimodal Teaching and Learning: The Rhetorics of the Science Classroom

  This book takes a radically different look at communication, and in doing so presents a series of challenges to accepted views on language, on communication, on teaching and, above all, on learning.

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  Multimodal Teaching and Learning: The Rhetorics of the Science Classroom

  This is an importantly concrete analysis, derived from extended, careful, and interdisciplinary observation, which challenges our thinking about how meaning and knowledge are shaped by our modes of communication.