Motivating Literacy Learners in Today's World

Motivating Literacy Learners in Today's World
provides insights into a broad spectrum of children's
literacy learning. Motivation is the key theme and
the authors show how this can be achieved through
reading for pleasure; in writing activities at a number
of levels; and through oral language development.
They demonstrate how the active promotion of
culturally appropriate pedagogical approaches
support motivation and engagement in literacy
learning. There is a valuable discussion of the issues
surrounding motivation for students who struggle
with decoding text as well as strategies for practice
that can overcome barriers and improve learning.
How creative and interactive processes of drama can
be used to contextualise and animate text provide a
fresh insight into innovative ways to motivate literacy
learning. There are also challenges to the commonly
held conceptualisation of being literate created by
the use and potential of digital technologies. This
concept of multiliteracies opens the way for thinking
about contexts, modalities and ways of knowing in
today's world.