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Books > Language & Literature > Language & linguistics > Literacy
Literacy practices have changed over the past several years to
incorporate modes of representation much broader than language
alone, in which the textual is also related to the visual, the
audio, the spatial, etc. This book focuses on research and
instructional practices necessary for integrating an expanded view
of literacy in the classroom that offers multiple points of entry
for all students. Projects highlighted in this book incorporate
multiple modes of communication (e.g., visual, aural, textual)
through various digital and print-based written formats. In
addition, this book particularly focuses on the possibilities that
this expanded view of literacy holds for emergent to advanced
bilingual students and specific scaffolds necessary for supporting
them. Our focus is specifically multilingual students as classrooms
across the United States and other English-speaking countries
around the world become more and more diverse. The book considers
educators as active participants in social change and contributors
to our overall goal of social justice for all. This book grew out
of work conducted by doctoral students and former doctoral
students, now faculty at various universities, from the Language
and Literacy Learning in Multilingual Settings (LLLMS)
specialization in the Department of Teaching and Learning at the
School of Education and Human Development at the University of
Miami, Florida. The most outstanding feature of this work is the
breadth of examples for integrating literacy in the classroom, as
well as the specific instructional strategies provided for
supporting multilingual students. This volume is unique in tackling
both literacy and specific scaffolding for multilingual students.
Additionally, the chapters here collectively aim to go beyond
describing research to also provide a variety of classroom
connections for practitioners and implications for teacher
education.
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