Focus on Literacy

Marylou Matoush

Danling Fu

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Danling Fu, Marylou M. Matoush

Focus on Literacy

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The authors and publisher are grateful to those who have given permission to reproduce the following extracts and adaptations of copyright material: p.8 Extract from “10 Things Every Literacy Educator Should Know About Research” by Nell K. Duke and Nicole M. Martin, The Reading Teacher, 65, (1), September 2011. © 2011 International Reading Association. Reproduced by permission of John Wiley and Sons. p.16 Extract republished with permission of Taylor and Francis Group LLC Books, from “Synthesis: Development of Literacy in Language-Minority Students” by Nonie Lesaux and Esther Geva from Developing literacy in second-language learners: report of the National Literacy Panel on Language-Minority Children and Youth by Diane August and Timothy Shanahan (eds.), Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, Inc (2006); permission conveyed through Copyright Clearance Center, Inc. p.33 Extract from “Funds of knowledge for teaching: Using a qualitative approach to connect homes and classrooms” by Luis C. Moll, Cathy Amanti, Deborah Neff and Norma Gonzalez, Theory Into Practice, 31, (2), March 1992, reprinted by permission of Taylor & Francis Ltd, http://www.tandf.co.uk/journals (http://www.tandf.co.uk/journals). pp.34–35 Extract from Language, Power and Pedagogy by Jim Cummins, Multilingual Matters (2000). Reproduced by permission of Multilingual Matters. p.34 Extract from “Mother Tongue and Identity: Nobody could see that I was a Finn” by Antti Jalava from Minority Education: From Shame to Struggle by Tove Skutnabb-Kanga