摘要:
This dissertation explores how literacy instruction is organized for, taught, and experienced by five adolescent, African American, male students in an eighth grade English/Language Arts classroom. With this dissertation, I acquired an understanding of what impacts how and why teachers deliver literacy instruction. I adopt a sociocultural perspective of literacy development by focusing on the literacy practices that occurred during literacy events. From a sociocultural perspective, students can be seen as active and capable literacy learners as they experience and engage with a wide range of literacy practices in everyday contexts.