Kimberly Buescher Urbanski is Assistant Professor of Applied Linguistics at the University of Massachusetts-Boston, USA. Her research interests include L2 learning and teaching, L2 literacy and Sociocultural Theory. She has published on L2 literacy pedagogy, gesture research methodology, concept-based language instruction, L2 French preposition pedagogy and Cognitive Linguistic analysis.

• FiguresTablesAcknowledgementsChapter 1. Introduction - Current State of Second Language Reading Pedagogy and Pedagogical ConcernsChapter 2. Second Language Reading/Literacy and Pedagogy      Chapter 3. Vygotskian Second Language Literacy Pedagogy         Chapter 4. Developing Second Language Narrative Literacy         Chapter 5. Developing Awareness in Literacy Concepts   Chapter 6. Tracing Literacy DevelopmentChapter 7. Future Developments in Vygotskian Second Language Literacy PedagogyAppendixReferencesIndex

This book is unique in so many ways. It examines both the processes and products of literacy development from a Vygotskian SCT perspective. Instructionally, concept-based learning and a division of labor pedagogy are used. Changes in teacher and peer mediation as well as student verbalizations are shown to lead to the internalization of key literacy concepts. This is a must-read for anyone interested in a Vygotskian perspective of second language literacy development.