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Research in Literacy Education Award Winners 2008

The prize winners of the new UKLA/ Wiley-Blackwell Research in Literacy Education Award 2008 were announced at the gala dinner of the UKLA international conference.

For 2007-2008 the awards are:

Journal of Research in Reading

Winner: Kate Cain Deriving word meanings from context:  does explanation facilitate contextual analysis? Journal of Research in Reading 30:4 pp 347-378

Runner up: Binder, K., Chace, K. H. & Manning, M. C. Sentential and discourse context effects: adults who are learning to read compared with skilled readers. Journal of Research in Reading 30:4 pp 379-393

Literacy

Winner: Lynda Graham Teachers are digikids too: the digital histories and digital lives of young teachers in English primary schools. Literacy 42:1 pp10-18
Runner up: Naomi Flynn What do effective teachers of literacy do? Subject knowledge and pedagogical choices for literacy. Literacy 41:3 pp 137-146

Kate Cain said she was “honoured and delighted to have received the award for the Journal of Research in Reading”. Lynda Graham was delighted to have been selected as prize winner for Literacy and thanked all the young teachers who generously gave of their time to be interviewed.