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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-- Provided By Publisher.