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Direct linkBates, Katherine – Australian Journal of Environmental Education, 2023
Debates about teaching reading have long been a part of educational vernacular, frequently reduced to polarised views about phonics. This attention can unnecessarily divert from the cumulative skills required for learning to read and comprehensive research, which indicates the positive influence of systematic phonics instruction on students'…
Descriptors: Reading Instruction, Foreign Countries, Reading Skills, Phonics
Download full textThwaite, Anne; Adam, Helen; Urquhart, Yvonne; Hill, Susan – Australian Journal of Teacher Education, 2022
Pre-service teachers (PSTs) need sound Knowledge About Language (KAL), both for their own professional communication and for their teaching practice. In the longer term, enhanced KAL will benefit our graduates in their implementation of the Australian Curriculum. This paper reports on work with First Year PSTs at one Australian university. We…
Descriptors: Phonology, Preservice Teacher Education, Preservice Teachers, Literacy
Meeks, Linda J.; Kemp, Coral R. – Australian Journal of Teacher Education, 2017
Preservice early childhood and primary teachers from teacher preparation institutions across five Australian states were surveyed regarding their perceptions of preparedness and ability to teach early reading and spelling skills, as well as their knowledge of components of early reading, such as phonemic awareness, alphabet knowledge and early…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Preservice Teachers, Teacher Competencies, Beginning Reading
Tetley, Deborah; Jones, Caroline – Australian Journal of Learning Difficulties, 2014
Acquisition of language concepts by pre-service teachers (PSTs) is likely influenced by university coursework and field experiences, but little research has examined how. Knowledge of phonics and phonological awareness and confidence to teach reading were surveyed among primary PSTs at one New South Wales university, most in second year following…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Preservice Teachers, Elementary School Teachers, Pedagogical Content Knowledge
Fielding-Barnsley, Ruth – Australian Journal of Learning Difficulties, 2010
Recent Australian and international government reports refer to the importance of teacher knowledge in the sound structure of language and its relationship to beginning reading. In this study, a group of 162 pre-service teachers responded to a questionnaire including questions related to their attitudes towards using phonics instruction in the…
Descriptors: Preservice Teachers, Phonemic Awareness, Phonics, Beginning Reading
Mahar, Nicole E.; Richdale, Amanda L. – Australian Journal of Learning Difficulties, 2008
This study examined 120 Victorian preservice and inservice teachers' ability to implement evidence-based, early literacy instruction by examining whether teachers possessed positive perceptions of explicit instruction in sound-letter relationships, and a proficient knowledge of language structure. Teachers' confidence in teaching students of known…
Descriptors: Preservice Teachers, Private Schools, State Schools, Catholics
