This paper provides several implications for instructional research in literacy based on a sociocultural perspective. We focus on three assumptions of the sociocultural perspective: literacy knowledge is a cultural phenomenon, cognitive processes related to literacy are acquired in holistic, contextualized activity, and literacy processes originate in social interactions with others.
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