<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><xml><records><record><source-app name="Biblio" version="6.x">Drupal-Biblio</source-app><ref-type>6</ref-type><contributors><authors><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Cumming,Alister H.</style></author></authors></contributors><titles><title><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Adolescent literacies in a multicultural context</style></title><secondary-title><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Routledge research in education ; 74</style></secondary-title></titles><keywords><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Language arts (Secondary)--Social aspects--United States--Case studies</style></keyword><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Literacy--Social aspects--United States--Case studies</style></keyword><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Multicultural education--United States--Case studies</style></keyword></keywords><dates><year><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">2012</style></year><pub-dates><date><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">2012</style></date></pub-dates></dates><urls><web-urls><url><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">http://searchworks.stanford.edu/view/9608078</style></url></web-urls></urls><publisher><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Routledge</style></publisher><pub-location><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">New York</style></pub-location><pages><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">242</style></pages><isbn><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">9780415898904 (hbk.)</style></isbn><language><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">eng</style></language><abstract><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Summary: &quot;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&quot;-- Provided by publisher.</style></abstract><call-num><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Cubb LB1631 .A34379 2012</style></call-num></record></records></xml>