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Direct linkPark, Jie Y. – Journal of Adolescent & Adult Literacy, 2014
Although immigrant youth make up more than 20 percent of school-age children in the U.S., little is known about how they manage school assignments and texts. In this paper the author presents Tara (pseudonym) as a telling case of a first-generation immigrant youth who is encountering and grappling with academic literacy--defined as not only the…
Descriptors: Immigrants, Case Studies, Literacy, Academic Discourse
