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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
Mason, Michele R.; Ernst-Slavit, Gisela – Multicultural Education, 2010
This article draws attention to the language used by fourth and fifth grade teachers during social studies instruction and discusses the implications of how this language frames non-dominant groups, as in this case. Via the discussion of segments of instructional conversations, the authors point to the pervasive use of language that perpetuates…
Descriptors: Language Usage, United States History, Metalinguistics, American Indians