Adolescent Literacies in a Multicultural Context
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This book presents results from a four-year project addressing the central question: What factors, challenges, and contexts contribute to and constrain literacy achievement among at-risk adolescent learners with culturally diverse backgrounds? Researchers consider the importance of several, interrelated factors that support the development of adolescents' literacies in multilingual contexts: support from educators, community groups, families, and peers; recognition of the multi-faceted complexity of literacy through multiple, complementary methods of research and assessment; approaches to pedagogy that engage learners' zones of proximal development in humanistic and purposeful ways; and promoting students' vocabulary knowledge, strategies for reading, writing, and learning, and orientations to engaging with epistemic purposes of literacy critically, through multiple media, and with self-confidence.
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- ISBN-13: 9781138788046
- ISBN-10: 113878804X
- Publisher: Routledge
- Publish Date: March 2014
- Dimensions: 8.8 x 6 x 0.7 inches
- Shipping Weight: 0.83 pounds
- Page Count: 264
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