Leveraging is often described as the process of using the home and community languages
of children and youth as a tool to access the “academic” or “standard” varieties of languages …

The International Handbook of Science Education is a two volume edition pertaining to the
most significant issues in science education. It is a follow-up to the first Handbook, published …

This book in the NCRLL Collection provides an introductory discussion of discourse analysis
of language and literacy events in classrooms. The authors introduce approaches to …

This paper argues for an expanded notion of context and the mediational tools that frame
language learning. More specifically, we argue for a more explicit understanding of …

Barbara Rogoff Leslie C. Moore Maricela Correa‑Chávez Amy L. Dexter culturally rooted
community routines and practices are crucial contributors to human development that are …

Repetition plays a major role in the development of linguistic and sociocultural competence
and in the transmission and transformation of cultural and linguistic practices. Thus …

In what ways do urban youths' hybridity constitute positioning and engagement in science-
as-practice? In what ways are they “hybridizing” and hence surviving in a system that …

This qualitative study examines language and literacy practices in nine Latin@ immigrant
families, focusing on young children (ages 4–6) and their older siblings (ages 7–10). Audio …

Research into the effective teaching of science to emergent bilinguals has converged
around key theoretical perspectives and led to expansive empirical evidence that …

This chapter presents a framework for effective science teaching for English language
learners (ESTELL) based on two bodies of sociocultural research—the CREDE Five …