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Direct linkGardner, Paul D. – English in Education, 2017
A comparative analysis of English in the primary curricula of England and Australia reveals markedly different policy perspectives of the functions and purposes of language, literacy and literature in these two Anglophone countries. Whilst the Australian curriculum incorporates 'the basics' with broader socio-linguistic views of language in an…
Descriptors: Comparative Education, English Instruction, Literacy, Elementary School Curriculum
D'warte, Jacqueline – English in Australia, 2015
This paper presents research conducted with teachers and students in one year 7 and one year 8 English classroom that worked to support in school English language learning by calling on the resources and repertoires of plurilingual students. In this work, students and teachers were engaged as linguistic ethnographers of their own language…
Descriptors: Ethnography, Secondary School Students, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning
Denham, Kristin, Ed.; Lobeck, Anne, Ed. – Cambridge University Press, 2010
Linguistics is a subject that has remained largely confined to the academy, rather than being integrated into school curricula. This is unfortunate but not surprising, as although some teacher education programs include courses on linguistics, it is not comprehensively integrated into teacher education, so it is largely absent from the curriculum.…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Childrens Writing, Speech, Sociolinguistics
Peer reviewedMartin, James R. – Annual Review of Applied Linguistics, 1992
Complements review in previous volume concerning Australian literacy (in first- and second-language) initiatives that drew on systemic functional linguistics, highlights ongoing research within the same theoretical framework, and focuses on the question of modeling context in educational linguistics. The discussion includes modeling context as…
Descriptors: Context Effect, Discourse Analysis, Foreign Countries, Linguistic Theory
Benton, Richard – RELC Journal, 1975
The article outlines past and present approaches to initial literacy teaching to speakers of indigenous vernaculars in Australia and New Zealand. It comments on the implications of this experience in the wider context of teaching literacy, and of teaching English literacy in Southeast Asia as a whole. (CLK)
Descriptors: Attitudes, Educational Policy, English (Second Language), Language Instruction
Download full textMcRae, David – 1994
The evolution and activities of the National Languages and Literacy Institute of Australia Limited during its first three years are described. The institute consists of a complex network of activities across Australia, including; a research and policy coordination center in Canberra; nine research and development centers specializing in various…
Descriptors: Administrative Organization, Applied Linguistics, Deafness, Dictionaries
Cooke, Anthony, Ed.; MacSween, Ann, Ed. – 2000
This book, which focuses on the relationship between adult education institutions and social movements, contains 31 papers originally presented at a 1998 conference on the history of adult education. Following an Introduction (Cooke), the papers are: Mobilisation, Popular Participation and Sustainable Development: Themes in the Recent History of…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Change Agents, Community Cooperation, Context Effect
