Handbook of Adolescent Literacy Research
ISBN: 9781606239933 | 1606239937
Format: Trade PaperPublisher: The Guilford Press
Pub. Date: 7/2/2010
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The first comprehensive research handbook of its kind, this volume showcases innovative approaches to understanding adolescent literacy learning in a variety of settings. Distinguished contributors examine how well adolescents are served by current instructional practices and highlight ways to translate research findings more effectively into sound teaching and policymaking. The book emphasizes social and cultural factors in adolescents' approach to communication and response to instruction, and sections address literacy both in and out of scho... MORE
| Overview | p. 1 |
| Introduction | p. 3 |
| Sociocultural Constructions of Adolescence and Young People's Literacies | p. 14 |
| Who Are Adolescents Today?: Youth Voices and What They Tell Us | p. 29 |
| Literacy in School | p. 47 |
| Contexts for Adolescent Literacy | p. 49 |
| Adolescents Who Struggle with Literacy | p. 65 |
| Proficient Reading in School: Traditional Paradigms and New Textual Lan... MORE | p. 80 |
| Fostering Adolescents' Engaged Academic Literacy | p. 98 |
| Divided against Ourselves: Standards, Assessments, and Adolescent Literacy | p. 113 |
| Adolescent Second-Language Writing | p. 126 |
| Research on the Literacies of AAVE-Speaking Adolescents | p. 140 |
| Digital Literacies in the Classroom | p. 153 |
| The Secondary English Curriculum and Adolescent Literacy | p. 170 |
| Visual Arts and Literacy | p. 183 |
| Policy and Adolescent Literacy | p. 197 |
| Tracking and Ability Grouping | p. 220 |
| Literacy Out of School | p. 237 |
| Preparing Adolescents for the Literacy Demands of the 21st-Century Workplace | p. 239 |
| The Literacy Demands of Entering the University | p. 256 |
| Literacy in Virtual Worlds | p. 271 |
| Reading and Writing Video: Media Literacy and Adolescents | p. 287 |
| Literacy and Culture | p. 305 |
| Literacy and Identity: Implications for Research and Practice | p. 307 |
| Latina/o Youth Literacies: Hidden Funds of Knowledge | p. 323 |
| Beyond Hip-Hop: A Cultural Context View of Literacy | p. 343 |
| Boys and Literacy: Complexity and Multiplicity | p. 360 |
| Lessons on Literacy Learning and Teaching: Listening to Adolescent Girls | p. 372 |
| Literacy Issues and GLBTQ Youth: Queer Interventions in English Education | p. 386 |
| The Literacies of New Immigrant Youth | p. 400 |
| American Indian Adolescent Literacy | p. 415 |
| Author Index | p. 431 |
| Subject Index | p. 441 |
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