Books and articles on writing, language and literacy from international and cross-national perspectivesConnor, U. (1996). Contrastive Rhetoric. Cambridge University Press.
Donohue, T. (2007). Ecrire à l’Université: Analyse Comparée en France et aux Etats-Unis. Paris: Presses Universitaires du Septentrion.
G. Eigler & Th. Jechle eds. (1993). Writing: Current Trends in European Research. Freiburg: HochschulVerlag.
Foster, D. and Russell, D. eds. (2002). Writing and Learning in Cross-National Perspective. NCTE/Lawrence Erlbaum.
Foster, D. (2006). Writing with Authority: Students' Roles as Writers in Cross-National Perspective. Southern Illinois University Press.
Freedman, S.W. (1994). Exchanging Writing, Exchanging Cultures. NCTE/Harvard University Press.
Li, X. (1996). 'Good Writing' in Cross Cultural Context. New York: State University of New York.
Mao, L. (2007). Reading Chinese Fortune Cookie. The Making of Chinese American Rhetoric. Utah State University Press.
Oliver, R. (2003). 'What can cross-cultural research tell us about student writing? Perspectives and questions from a study of writing about Literature in Europe'. Paper presented at the Conference on College Composition and Communication Annual Convention, New York.
Notes and handouts for this presentation at http://robconferencepapers.blogspot.com/.
Pratt, M.L.. (1992). Imperial Eyes: Travel Writing and Transculturation. London: Routledge.
Purves, A. and Purves, W. (1986). 'Viewpoints: Cultures, Text Models, and the Activity of Writing'. Research in the Teaching of English, 20: 174-197.
Scollon, R. and Scollon, S. (1995). Intercultural Communication. Oxford: Blackwell.
Mark Shiu-kee Shum & De-Lu Zhang eds. (2005). Teaching writing in Chinese speaking areas. New York: Springer. See abstracts at http://www.sig-writing.org/. [This site has been down recently. More over this book here.
Tulasiewicz, W. and Adams, A. eds. (1998). Teaching the Mother Tongue in a Multilingual Europe. Cassell.
Serena Lay Tin Tan Yew and Lesley Farrell (n.d.), 'The Root of the Confusion: Identity', paper about Hong Kong students and academic writing at an Australian university. Online at this html page.
Comparative Education
Bourdieu, P. (1967). 'Systems of Education and Systems of Thought'. International Sociological Science Journal, 19,3: 338-358.
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Multilingualism
Extra, G. and Yagmur, K. (2004). Urban Multilingualism in Europe. Multilingual Matters.
The Multilingual Cities Project studied immigrant minority languages in six cities - The Hague, Brussels, Hamburg, Lyon, Madrid and Gothenburg. Report at
http://www6.gencat.net/llengcat/noves/hm05primavera-estiu/extra1_3.htm
See also related UNESCO pdf document at http://www.unesco.org/most/dp63extra.pdf.
Extra, G. and Gorter, D. (eds.). The Other Languages of Europe. Demographic, Sociolinguistic and Edicational Perspectives. Clevedon/Buffalo/Toronto/Sydney: Multilingual Matters.
Review at http://www.vanoostendorp.nl/linguist/extragorter.html
Phillipson, R. (2003). English-only Europe? Challenging Language Policy. Routledge.
Includes text of the Declaration of Oegstgeest in 2000.
Portante, D. (2002). 'Developing Multilingual Literacy in a Complex Setting: Suggested Principles for Building a Crossnational Research Agenda'. Paper from IRA Conference Edinburgh 2002 at http://www.readingonline.org/international/edinburgh/portante/.
de Swaan, A. (2004). 'Endangered Languages, Sociolinguistics, and Linguistic Sentimentalism'.
at http://www.deswaan.com/engels/from_our_archives/Endlan.htm plus see notes and refs.
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International Literacy
Key findings of the last IEA Reading Survey at http://www.iea.nl/reading_literacy.html. Last survey was 1985-1994.
PIRLS (an International Perspective on Fostering Reading Development). Primary school international reading survey at http://timss.bc.edu/pirls2001.html and Progress in Reading International Literacy Study at
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/shared/bsp/hi/pdfs/28_11_07_pirls_report.pdf
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International Understanding
Stover, E. and Weinstein, H. eds. (2003). My Neighbour, My Enemy: Justice and Community in the Aftermath of Mass Atrocity. Cambridge University Press. See here.
