【2015】Multilingual Learners and Academic Literacies: Sociocultural Contexts of Literacy Development in Adolescents
Book 图书名称: Multilingual Learners and Academic Literacies: Sociocultural Contexts of Literacy Development in Adolescents
Author 作者: Daniella Molle, Edynn Sato, Timothy Boals, Carol A. Hedgspeth
Publisher 出版社: Routledge
Page 页数: 332
Publishing Date 出版时间: Mar 7, 2015
Language 语言: English
Size 大小: 3 MB
Format 格式: pdf 文字版
ISBN: 1138846473, 9781138846470
Edition: 第1版 搜索过论坛,没有该文档
Shifting the discourse from a focus on academic language to the more dynamic but less researched construct of academic literacies, this volume addresses three key questions:
• What constitutes academic literacy?
• What does academic literacy development in adolescent multilingual students look like and how can this development be assessed?
• What classroom contexts foster the development of academic literacies in multilingual adolescents?
The contributing authors provide divergent definitions of academic literacies and use dissimilar theoretical and methodological approaches to study literacy development. Nevertheless, all chapters reflect a shared conceptual framework for examining academic literacies as situated, overlapping, meaning-making practices. This framework foregrounds students’ participation in valued disciplinary literacy practices. Emphasized in the new college and career readiness standards, the notion of disciplinary practices allows the contributing authors to bridge the language/content dichotomy, and take a more holistic as well as nuanced view of the demands that multilingual students face in general education classrooms. The volume also explores the implications of the emphasis on academic literacy practices for classroom instruction, research, and policy.