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Albright, James; Knezevic, Lisa – English in Australia, 2017
Teachers of subject English across Australia have been involved in a wide range of professional learning experiences to support implementation of the "Australian Curriculum: English" since its introduction in 2010. This article investigates the professional learning experienced by a small number of primary school teachers in two Catholic…
Descriptors: English Curriculum, English Instruction, Catholic Schools, Learning Experience
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Brooke Richelle Holland – English Journal, 2016
By exploring the uses of plain, middle, and grand styles, the author examines how theories of classical rhetoricians can be applied to Atticus Finch's speeches in "To Kill a Mockingbird." In the high school English classrooms the author has encountered, "rhetoric" has not been a focus or even a passing discussion. It forms the…
Descriptors: Literary Devices, Novels, Reading Materials, Reader Text Relationship
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Burkhauser, Mary A.; Lesaux, Nonie K. – Journal of Curriculum Studies, 2017
This study explores teachers' first enactments of a set of theory-based curriculum materials designed to support academic language instruction. Specifically, this multiple case study looks at how six middle school English teachers in three US schools adapted the materials; each case includes a pair of teachers, one novice and one more experienced.…
Descriptors: Middle School Teachers, Beginning Teachers, Experienced Teachers, English Teachers
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Gallagher, Tiffany L.; Rowsell, Jennifer – McGill Journal of Education, 2017
This article examines the extent to which the competencies of the 21st century learner are reflected in the learning outcomes within the English language arts curriculum standards documents for the Canadian provinces. Manifest summative content analysis was used to code learning outcomes in accordance with themes derived from the competencies of…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Outcomes of Education, Behavioral Objectives, Language Arts
Winters, Marcus A. – Manhattan Institute for Policy Research, 2017
Critics of charter schools in New York City, America's largest school district, often allege that charters score better on standardized tests, on average, than traditional public schools because charters "cream-skim" (i.e., attract) the brightest, most motivated, students. Yet this accusation neglects the fact that not all traditional…
Descriptors: Charter Schools, Public Schools, School Effectiveness, Success
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Lamar L. Johnson; Johnnie Jackson; David O. Stovall; Denise Taliaferro Baszile – English Journal, 2017
In this article, the authors argue that the racial violence that unfolds against Black youth in various communities seeps into English language arts (ELA) classrooms. They offer a theoretical framework that centers on Black literacies that secondary ELA teachers can use to disrupt the violence and curricula and pedagogical inequities against Black…
Descriptors: English Instruction, Language Arts, Racism, Violence
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Willis, Linda-Dianne; Exley, Beryl – English in Australia, 2016
The Language Strand of the Australian Curriculum: English (Australian Curriculum, Assessment & Reporting Authority (ACARA), 2016b) includes the sub-strand of "Language Variation and Change". This sub-strand is a marked space for discovery and discussion of the history and politics of language use. As such, this sub-strand points to…
Descriptors: Language Variation, English Curriculum, Language Usage, Educational History
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Bannister-Tyrrell, Michelle; Clary, Deidre – English in Australia, 2017
This article investigates the perceptions and lived experience of practising middle years' and pre-service teachers of English in their efforts to make sense of, and use metacognition. The investigation focuses on metacognition as a means to enhance student learning by fostering self-awareness of their students' thinking as they engage in reading,…
Descriptors: Metacognition, English Instruction, Preservice Teachers, English Teachers
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Joskin, Anna – International Education Journal: Comparative Perspectives, 2019
This paper examines the relationships between global education policies at global and local levels that have driven the outcomes-based curriculum reform into Papua New Guinea (PNG). It reports on evidence from a qualitative case study that investigated the implementation of the outcomes-based English curriculum into two lower secondary schools in…
Descriptors: Educational Policy, Policy Analysis, Outcomes of Education, English Curriculum
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Kunnath, Joshua P.; Jackson, Arika – Journal of Media Literacy Education, 2019
As young people today are flooded with information from a multitude of sources, they must be prepared to perceive the potentially oppressive and nefarious nature of many texts. Critical literacy is a theory and strategy that allows young people, along with people of all ages, to achieve just this; however, teachers often experience difficulties…
Descriptors: Social Media, Critical Literacy, Consciousness Raising, Grade 11
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Ravelli, Louise – English in Australia, 2016
Multimodal texts are now part of the curriculum for school English, but they are by their nature inherently complex, and pose many challenges for the classroom. Not least is finding a way to manage the technical complexity of accounting for these texts, as well as finding a way to move students beyond simple observation and description to critical…
Descriptors: Secondary School Curriculum, English Curriculum, Visual Literacy, Learning Modalities
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VanDerHeide, Jennifer; Juzwik, Mary; Dunn, Mandie – Theory Into Practice, 2016
Various instructional approaches have been laid out for conceptualizing argumentation talk and writing in English classrooms. One prominent, and historically durable, approach is formalist--teachers slot the teaching of argument into a form-based approach, usually using the 5-paragraph theme. This model too often fails to persuade students of the…
Descriptors: Persuasive Discourse, English Instruction, English Curriculum, Literacy
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Kaewsakul, Wanvisa – LEARN Journal: Language Education and Acquisition Research Network, 2016
This study aimed to examine teachers' perceptions and expectations of cultural contents in the Fundamental English coursebooks in Nakhon Si Thammarat Rajabhat University, Thailand. Cultural contents were analyzed in terms of two themes of culture--Big "C" and Small "c", and three sources of culture--Source, Target, and…
Descriptors: Textbook Content, Teacher Attitudes, Expectation, Foreign Countries
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Stock, Nicholas – English in Education, 2017
Since 2013, English Language and Literature courses in England have experienced changes to assessment and curriculum that have ushered them in a supposedly new direction, both under the umbrella of wider reforms. This divergence has included the abolition of controlled assessment and the concurrent resurgence of academic courses being assessed…
Descriptors: Educational Change, English Instruction, English Teachers, Grading
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Samantha Caughlan; Donna L. Pasternak; Heidi L. Hallman; Laura Renzi; Leslie S. Rush; Michael Frisby – English Education, 2017
A national study of English teacher preparation in U.S. colleges and universities revealed that faculty address changes in content and context salient to English education, particularly curricular, demographic, political, and technological changes, through initiatives at both the program and methods course levels. Programs require many hours of…
Descriptors: English Teachers, English Instruction, Language Arts, College Faculty
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