Adolescent Literacies in a Multicultural Context

<p>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. </p>