Tag Archives: language

Teaching writing to young students

Posted on October 13, 2020 by Bookworm

A full understanding of language development is necessary to teach writing in a successful, meaningful way. In Language in Writing Instruction: Enhancing Literacy in Grades 3-8 (Routledge, 2020), Lynch School of Education and Human Development Professor Emeritus María Estela Brisk … Continue reading →

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Creative undoing of form

Posted on July 17, 2013 by Bookworm

Longtime Arts & Sciences Honors Program Assistant Director Mary Joe Hughes, a beloved teacher who recently retired from Boston College, has published The Move Beyond Form: Creative Undoing in Literature and the Arts since 1960 (Palgrave Macmillan, 2013). The book … Continue reading →

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The globalization of English

Posted on July 15, 2013 by Bookworm

Author and historian David Northrup, who taught in the History Department at Boston College for some 40 years, has published a new book that looks at the rise and global spread of the English language. Publisher Palgrave Macmillan calls How … Continue reading →

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