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Direct linkTracii Ryan; Michael Henderson; Kris Ryan; Gregor Kennedy – Teaching in Higher Education, 2024
Research indicates that effective learner-centred feedback requires learner agency, impact and sensemaking. While scholars are focusing on supporting agency and impact, limited research has addressed sensemaking. This is problematic, because if learners fail to understand feedback, impact is likely to be reduced. In response, this study examines…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Comprehension, Academic Achievement, Feedback (Response)
Julie Arnold; Anne Camiller; Matthew Pickersgill; Kathryn McKenna; Jill Willis – English in Australia, 2022
Multimodal discourse analysis (MMDA) has been instrumental in the evolution of English curriculum and pedagogy. However, it is unusual for educators to direct the tools of multimodal inquiry to their own text productions. In the context of prioritising accessibility within the new Queensland Certificate of Education in Queensland, which has…
Descriptors: Worksheets, Discourse Analysis, Foreign Countries, Department Heads
Download full textSusan Friedman – CEA Forum, 2023
Current research suggests that students who struggle with grammar, spelling, mechanics and other "problems of ability," as well as students who suffer from "problems of engagement," as well as those students who see reading and writing as a chore, can benefit from creative writing assignments and learn to enjoy reading and…
Descriptors: Creative Writing, Writing (Composition), Correlation, Academic Language
Joanne O’Mara; Glenn Auld; Yin Paradies; Cassandra Alpium, Contributor; Meaghan Beaucaire, Contributor; Roxene Beech, Contributor; Brittany Bell, Contributor; Rebekkah Cranson, Contributor; Tim Delphine, Contributor; Paul Garner, Contributor; Erin Horton, Contributor; Jennifer Kernahan, Contributor; Catherine Milvain, Contributor; Alicia O’Keefe, Contributor; Martina Polaskova, Contributor; Douglas Rowell, Contributor; Stephanie Savopoulos, Contributor; Benjamin Taylor, Contributor; Kelvin Wong, Contributor; Melanie Whelan, Contributor; Leteasha Yamada, Contributor; Michael Ziemer, Contributor – English in Australia, 2022
The Australian Curriculum provides a warrant for all subject English teachers to enact the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Histories and Cultures Cross-curriculum priority (CCP). This priority is 'designed for all students to engage in reconciliation, respect, and recognition of the world's oldest continuous living cultures' (ACARA, n.d.-a).…
Descriptors: English Instruction, Teaching Methods, Indigenous Populations, Foreign Countries
Kuttainen, Victoria; Hansen, Claire – English in Australia, 2020
Mutual support and dialogue across secondary and tertiary English is vital work in urgent times. In this article, the authors examine Australia's secondary-tertiary English education nexus, building on previous scholarship to explore points of connection and disconnection with a view to identifying sustainable ways of supporting points of…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Secondary Education, Higher Education, College English
Thwaite, Anne – Australian Journal of Teacher Education, 2019
This paper gives a brief summary of Halliday's theory of how children learn to talk, illustrating the development of children's language from the microfunctions through the macrofunctions and into the metafunctions of adult language. The paper points to a possible source of the misinterpretation of Halliday's theory in the work of Frank Smith…
Descriptors: Learning Theories, Linguistic Theory, English Curriculum, National Curriculum
Yang, James H. – Language, Culture and Curriculum, 2016
Drawing on critical pedagogy, this study challenges the hegemony of Standard English (SE) to promote inclusive approaches which recognise and tolerate the variation of World Englishes to prepare students for intercultural encounters with interlocutors speaking different varieties of English. To enhance students' ethno-sensitivity and receptive…
Descriptors: Critical Theory, Language Attitudes, Language Variation, Sociolinguistics
Matruglio, Erika – Australian Journal of Teacher Education, 2019
This paper explores the issue of metalanguage and writing instruction in the senior secondary curriculum. It reports on the use of a design based research collaboration between a very experienced teacher of Ancient History and a research team with the aim of improving literacy outcomes for a group of disadvantaged students. The case highlights…
Descriptors: Literacy Education, Instructional Design, Teacher Collaboration, History Instruction
Beavis, Catherine; Walsh, Christopher; Bradford, Clare; O'Mara, Joanne; Apperley, Thomas; Gutierrez, Amanda – English in Australia, 2015
The need for English and literacy curriculum to connect with young people's lifeworlds to build bridges and frames of reference that connect traditional English curriculum with digital texts and literacies, are increasing priorities in curriculum frameworks in Australia and elsewhere. This paper reports on a project in which the authors worked…
Descriptors: English Instruction, English Curriculum, Heuristics, Teaching Methods
Davies, Larissa McLean; Grant, Ashleigh; Hehir, Emily; Matthews, Hagan; May, Caitlin; Thiel, Philip; Sparrow, Catherine; Trevaskis, Glen; Barton, Katherine; Elliot, Amelia; Ogden, Trent – English in Australia, 2013
Garth Boomer's democratic and often provocative vision for English teaching continues to play an important part in the professional development of English teachers. In particular, Boomer's work is often used by Teacher Educators in preservice degrees to introduce emerging English teachers to key ideas such as curriculum negotiation and…
Descriptors: English Teachers, English Teacher Education, Preservice Teacher Education, Preservice Teachers
Exley, Beryl; Chan, Mui Yoke, – English Teaching: Practice and Critique, 2014
In various parts of the world, Indigenous and non-Indigenous peoples are actively working towards Reconciliation. In Australia, the context in which we each undertake our work as educationalists and researchers, the Reconciliation agenda has been pushed into schools and English teachers have been called on to share responsibility for facilitating…
Descriptors: Conflict, Educational Policy, Educational Practices, English Curriculum
Mestan, Kemran; Harvey, Andrew – Australian Association for Research in Education, 2013
This paper reports on an evaluation of a distinctive university-school partnership program, Curriculum Bridges. Curriculum Bridges aims to develop the enthusiasm and capacity of students from disadvantaged schools in the fields of science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM). These objectives are sought by developing a theme in the…
Descriptors: Learner Engagement, Disadvantaged Schools, STEM Education, Grade 10
Curwood, Jen Scott – English in Australia, 2011
Prompted by calls for research on technology-focused professional development, this article investigates how learning communities influence secondary English teachers' use of digital tools. Findings from this year-long study in the United States indicate that the ways in which technology is integrated within the English curriculum are still very…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, English Teachers, Faculty Development, Educational Technology
Brabazon, Tara – Australian Library Journal, 2006
The author reviews the relationship between "literature" and pop culture, arguing that both are part of an intellectual continuum, and that to attempt to extol one and demonise the other is not only based on false and simplistic premises, it is exclusive and destructive. She reminds us that "All education is based on assumptions…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Popular Culture, Literacy, Politics of Education
