This book provides a detailed design of a new second language literacy pedagogy and the results of implementing it in different contexts so as to address literacy development challenges. The author explains the theory behind Vygotskian Sociocultural Theory of Mind and Systemic Functional Linguistics and how they can inform literacy pedagogy.

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.