Adolescent literacies in a multicultural context / 
edited by Alister Cumming. 
 - New York :  Routledge,  2012. 
 - 242 p. :  ill. 
 - Routledge research in education ;  74 .
<br/><br/>HKBU library 
<br/><br/> YT2025 M10 
<br/><br/> "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. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9780415898904 0415898900 9780203120033 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Language arts (Secondary)--Social aspects--United States<br/>Literacy--Social aspects--United States<br/>Multicultural education--United States
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>LB1631  / A191 2012