Multilingual Learners and Academic Literacies: Sociocultural Contexts of Literacy Development in 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.
The Inside Series is a five-level academic skills series that helps students in higher education to succeed in their studies and beyond. The Inside Series prepares students to understand and produce academic texts, while acquiring key academic vocabulary from the Academic Word List. Each unit features texts and tasks from academic content areas, explicit skills instruction relevant to academic study, and targeted words from the Academic Word List.
