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Mills, Kathy; Comber, Barbara; Kelly, Pippa – English Teaching: Practice and Critique, 2013
This article is a call to literacy teachers and researchers to embrace the possibility of attending more consciously to the senses in digital media production. Literacy practices do not occur only in the mind, but involve the sensoriality, embodiment, co-presence, and movement of bodies. This paper theorises the sensorial and embodied dimension of…
Descriptors: Photography, Language Arts, Foreign Countries, Films
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Mullock, Barbara – Australasian Journal of Special Education, 2012
The acquisition of spelling skills in English presents, for a substantial number of children, a significant challenge. Spelling skills do not automatically transfer from reading skills, and while many teachers are aware of the need to develop a separate word study program to assist with spelling development, time and confidence factors often…
Descriptors: Spelling Instruction, English Instruction, Instructional Materials, Instructional Material Evaluation
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Cloonan, Anne – English Teaching: Practice and Critique, 2011
Curriculum guidelines, including the emergent Australian curriculum (Australian Curriculum, Assessment and Reporting Authority [ACARA], 2009-10), indicate expectations that teachers will support their students' interpretation and creation of multimodal texts. However, English curriculum guidelines are yet to advise on a detailed metalanguage to…
Descriptors: English Curriculum, Literacy, Teachers, Metalinguistics