Adolescent literacies in a multicultural context /

"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, in...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Other Authors: Cumming, Alister H.
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: New York : Routledge, 2012.
Series:Routledge research in education ; 74.
Subjects:
Language arts (Secondary) > Social aspects > United States > Case studies.
Literacy > Social aspects > United States > Case studies.
Multicultural education > United States > Case studies.
Arts du langage (Secondaire) > Aspect social > États-Unis > Études de cas.
Éducation interculturelle > États-Unis > Études de cas.
EDUCATION > General.
EDUCATION > Multicultural Education.
EDUCATION > Philosophy & Social Aspects.
LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES > General.
Language arts (Secondary) > Social aspects
Literacy > Social aspects
Multicultural education
Aufsatzsammlung
Schreib- und Lesefähigkeit
Schüler
Soziale Herkunft
United States
USA
Academic Dissertation
dissertations.
Academic theses
Case studies
Academic theses.
Thèses et écrits académiques.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • 1. Purpose and approach / Alister Cumming and Esther Geva
  • 2. Tutoring adolescents in literacy : a thematic synthesis of published research / Robert Kohls and Jennifer Shade Wilson
  • 3. Pathways to education and its accomplishments / Norman Rowen
  • 4. Students and their social networks for literacy / Jennifer Shade Wilson
  • 5. Reading practices and achievement / Seung Won Jun and Yuko Watanabe
  • 6. Writing practices and achievement / Mohammed Al-Alawi and Robert Kohls
  • 7. Issues in socialization, literacy learning, and educational processes / Alister Cumming, Mohammed Al-Alawi, and Yuko Watanabe
  • 8. Bridging lexical knowledge and literacy / Daphne Meng-Ying Lin [and others]
  • 9. Tutoring in the zone of proximal development / Ibtissem Knouzi
  • 10. Summary and recommendations / Alister Cumming and Esther Geva.

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