Adolescent Literacies in a Multicultural Context (Routledge Research in Education) - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0415898900 ISBN 13: 9780415898904

Publisher: Routledge, 2012

Synopsis

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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About the Author

Alister Cumming is Professor and Head of the Modern Language Centre at the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education at the University of Toronto.

Edition details

• Publisher: Routledge
• Publication date: 2012
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0415898900
• ISBN 13: 9780415898904
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 260
• Editor: Cumming Alister