01676cam a22002294a 4500008004100000020001800041020001500059020001800074040000800092050002200100245008300122260003400205300001900239490004200258505001700300518001500317520094200332650006101274650004401335650004301379700002401422111205s2012    nyua     b    001 0 eng    a9780415898904  a0415898900  a9780203120033  aSDU00aLB1631bA191 201200aAdolescent literacies in a multicultural context /cedited by Alister Cumming.  aNew York :bRoutledge,c2012.  a242 p. :bill.1 aRoutledge research in education ;v74  aHKBU library  aYT2025 M10  a"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. 0aLanguage arts (Secondary)xSocial aspectszUnited States 0aLiteracyxSocial aspectszUnited States 0aMulticultural educationzUnited States1 aCumming, Alister H.