Negotiating Academic Literacies: Teaching and Learning Across Languages and Cultures

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Summary: Academic Literacies: an Introduction to the Issues
Review: This is a book about second language writing, the diversity of dialectic and linguistic discourse, and the history of composition classes. It is a collection of previously published essays. Several of the chapters are by researchers in the field of literacy or discourse, however, the book contains no studies of the technical aspects of writing. Instead, the book offers essays which comment on or illustrate the diversity of academic literacy. Having selected twenty-two essays from a variety of disciplines, Zamel and Spack have chosen to organize the texts in the order in which they were first published. This collection provides an effective introduction to some of the important figures in the field of discourse and second language for people who teach literacy to students of diverse backgrounds and who train teachers,. These essays provide a historical perspective of the study of academic literacy. Finally, a teaching tool and useful reference, this book is also important as an addition to the limited number of books which explore topics related to second language writing and linguistic diversity.