Literacy Journals

• Literacies is Back!
  Be sure to subscribe to the Canadian journal Literacies: Researching Practice and Practicing Research. Back after a hiatus, it will be publishing an issue in September 2007 on ‘What Counts as Literacy Work.’ Subscriptions are $15 (two issues/year).
• Literacy Café – Chit Chat from Literacies
  A blog for those with an interest in literacy research in practice from the Literacies journal folks. Subscribe to RSS feed or by email.
• New ABE & Literacy Journal
  Adult Basic Education and Literacy Journal, published jointly by ProLiteracy America and the Commission on Adult Basic Education, offers features of immediate use to practitioners as well as carrying peer-reviewed research articles. For example, the Practitioner Perspective has first-person narratives by people who have solved problems that instructors or program directors often encounter. Published 3 times a year.
• New Journal of Applied Research on Learning
  This biannual research publication from the Canadian Council on Learning addresses specific, practical problems affecting learning in Canada and applied research of significance to Canada. The first issue, April 2007, contains an article from BC on changing immigrants' attitudes toward intentions to use the BC HealthGuide program.
• NCSALL Comes to An End – Focus On Basics Continues
  The US National Center for the Study of Adult Learning and Literacy's (NCSALL) funding ended on July 31, 2007, after 10 years. The Web site remains available for free downloading of NCSALL materials. Focus on Basics is now published by World Education. The topic of the October 2007 issue is learning disabilities.