Adolescent Literacies in a Multicultural Context - Couverture souple

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 113878804X ISBN 13 : 9781138788046

Editeur : Routledge, 2014

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.

A propos du livre

À propos de l?auteur

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

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Routledge
• Date d'édition: 2014
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 113878804X
• ISBN 13: 9781138788046
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 264
• Éditeur: Cumming Alister
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