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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"--Provided by publisher
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monografia Rebiun32107542 https://catalogo.rebiun.org/rebiun/record/Rebiun32107542 m o d cr cnu---unuuu 120529s2012 nyua ob 001 0 eng d 2011045001 794707290 795008381 798531734 960494102 1034914066 1058634327 1086537953 1135517664 1135830108 1152767153 1162507054 1167754829 1229209372 1263628054 1290074051 9781136318559 electronic bk.) 1136318550 electronic bk.) 9780203120033 ebk.) 0203120035 ebk.) 9781280662591 MyiLibrary) 128066259X MyiLibrary) 9781136318504 113631850X 9781136318542 1136318542 9786613639523 6613639524 9780415898904 0415898900 113878804X 9781138788046 pbk.) 9786613639523 10.4324/9780203120033 doi NZ1 14810496 AU@ 000052907662 DEBSZ 431168040 363952 MIL N$T eng pn N$T CDX E7B YDXCP OCLCQ COO OCLCF EUX UKDOC OCLCO TYFRS OCLCQ OCLCO OCLCQ YDX OCLCO VGM BUF AU@ OCLCO OCLCQ OCLCA UKAHL OCLCQ OCLCA U3W K6U LVT VLY LUN VT2 OCLCQ SFB EBLCP MHW IDEBK DEBSZ EZC OCLCO OCL OCLCQ n-us--- LAN 000000 bisacsh Adolescent literacies in a multicultural context edited by Alister Cumming New York Routledge 2012 New York New York Routledge 1 online resource (xvii, 242 pages) illustrations 1 online resource (xvii, 242 pages) Text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier data file Routledge research in education 74 Includes bibliographical references and index 1. Purpose and approach / Alister Cumming and Esther Geva -- 2. Tutoring adolescents in literacy : a thematic synthesis of published research / Robert Kohls and Jennifer Shade Wilson -- 3. Pathways to education and its accomplishments / Norman Rowen -- 4. Students and their social networks for literacy / Jennifer Shade Wilson -- 5. Reading practices and achievement / Seung Won Jun and Yuko Watanabe -- 6. Writing practices and achievement / Mohammed Al-Alawi and Robert Kohls -- 7. Issues in socialization, literacy learning, and educational processes / Alister Cumming, Mohammed Al-Alawi, and Yuko Watanabe -- 8. Bridging lexical knowledge and literacy / Daphne Meng-Ying Lin [and others] -- 9. Tutoring in the zone of proximal development / Ibtissem Knouzi -- 10. Summary and recommendations / Alister Cumming and Esther Geva "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"--Provided by publisher English Language arts (Secondary)- Social aspects- United States- Case studies Literacy- Social aspects- United States- Case studies Multicultural education- United States- Case studies Arts du langage (Secondaire)- Aspect social- États-Unis- Études de cas Éducation interculturelle- États-Unis- Études de cas EDUCATION- General EDUCATION- Multicultural Education EDUCATION- Philosophy & Social Aspects LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES- General Language arts (Secondary)- Social aspects Literacy- Social aspects Multicultural education Aufsatzsammlung Schreib- und Lesefähigkeit Schüler Soziale Herkunft Estados Unidos Estados Unidos Academic Dissertation Academic theses Case studies Academic theses Thèses et écrits académiques Cumming, Alister H. Print version Adolescent literacies in a multicultural context. New York : Routledge, 2012 9780415898904 (DLC) 2011045001 (OCoLC)724640407 Routledge research in education 74