This article describes how one department journeys from introduction to incorporation of climate fiction and an ecocritical lens in a program for grades 9-12. It explains the department's endeavors, ensuing projects, future intentions for individual and collective climate work, and ways educators can join in the movement.

Students in England sit an important gateway examination in English at age 16. Major changes were made to this exam in 2017 resulting in more emphasis on the comprehension of unseen literary texts. This paper uses corpus linguistic methods to identify the kind of vocabulary encountered in these exam texts and compares it to the kind of vocabulary…

Coursebooks as one of the learning sources are important to meet the students' needs, especially those that match with the current curriculum. The current curriculum in Indonesia is Merdeka Curriculum. Therefore, the value of Genre Based Approach (GBA) in the Merdeka curriculum in a 7th grade Junior High School English coursebook is examined.…

This article presents the results of an interpretive case study of three lecturers teaching English at a South African University. The purpose of the study was to explore the lecturers' strategies to decolonize the curriculum succinctly. Purposive, with convenient sampling, identified the three most available lecturers. An emailed reflective…

In post-invasion Australia, English has been a key instrument of colonisation. English education was tasked with producing subjects both loyal to the Australian nation and the British Empire with little recognition given to people from other languages and cultures, least of all First Peoples. Despite Australia now being considered a successful…

Based on queer critical literacies framework, this study describes an intervention that aimed to help preservice teachers identify and deconstruct heteronormative discourse in Turkish social and educational contexts. Through a local documentary that narrates the experiences of a Turkish transgender individual, preservice teachers critique the…

The current study examined the reliability of The Reading League Curriculum-Evaluation Guidelines (CEGs), which were developed to help school-based teams rate the presence of red flags when considering adopting specific literacy curricula. Coders (n = 30) independently used the CEGs to evaluate a free online English language arts curriculum. The…

Multimodal texts are an integral part of children's lives. Rapid advancements in media and mobile technologies have increasingly expanded children's capability to view, share, design, and produce multimodal texts. However, Australia's updated English curriculum falls short of offering teachers a metalanguage to help children understand the complex…

Indigenous education futures require the prioritising of Indigenous voices. We need to ensure educators are engaging in deep listening, critical self-reflection and learning to develop necessary understandings. This paper will explore the urgency of prioritising Blak voices in all classrooms, emphasising the role of Indigenous-authored texts…

The study explored the extent learners' age variances impacted their achievement in a national education assessment in Ghana and how these were moderated by the types of schools (i.e., private and public) they attended. A multistage sampling method was used, and the data were analyzed using a multilevel modeling technique. The sample comprised…

At present, the construction of online courses is an important content in the process of educational informatization. At present, there are two problems in the construction of online courses: from the teaching point of view, the design of teaching activities and teaching processes in online courses is not enough, and the teaching effect is not…

This research aimed to: 1) investigate the current situation, desirable conditions, and essential needs for managing English language learning for communication, 2) develop a model for managing English language learning for communication, 3) study the outcomes of using the model for managing English language learning for communication, and 4)…

The focus of this article is on the development of expertise in interpreting literature within English Language Arts (ELA). Experts and novices differ significantly in how they approach problems and acquire information, with experts demonstrating more sophisticated pattern recognition, nuances, and conceptual understandings and approaches than…

This paper considers the research evidence-base informing teaching practice and policy in subject English in schools. We explore the "Australian Journal of English Education," the flagship research publication from the Australian Association of Teachers of English, at a time when an evidence-base is in high demand. Our aim is to…

The development of Global Citizenship Education (GCE) in China has spurred some transitions in cultural education related to English curriculum development. Notwithstanding researchers have discussed cultural education in the field of English language teaching, there is still a dearth of study in Chinese academia about the diachronic analysis of…