Cumming, Alister H. text bibliography nyu New York Routledge 2012 monographic eng

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242 p. : ill. "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. HKBU library edited by Alister Cumming. YT2025 M10 Language arts (Secondary) Social aspects United States Literacy Social aspects United States Multicultural education United States LB1631 A191 2012 9780415898904 0415898900 9780203120033 SDU 111205