Speculates about the performative aspect of Charles Marowitz's generalization regarding academically based and performance based usage of canonical or non canonical text. Defines what makes a canonical text and uses Shakespeare's "King Lear" as a vehicle for addressing ways in which performance might challenge, and seek to open out,…

The author was keen to look at advertising with her online classes, both in Business Enterprise (looking at how businesses operate, target marketing, language used in business etc) and in Creative Writing as she felt that this was a topic which worked in both areas and was an important one due to the huge impact and the big intrusion that…

Suggests that children need to experience publication as part of the writing process and that a complete model of the process of writing in its classroom context should be: experience, prewriting, draft writing, rewriting, publication, and response. (JM)

For the final assessment piece of her Bachelor of Education the author was asked to use the STELLA Standards Framework (Standards for Teachers of English Language and Literacy in Australia) to critically analyse and reflect on personally significant incidents which occurred during her final practicums. The objective was to be able to communicate…

Terence Rattigan is writer of psychological dramas whose unique works focus on the psychological issues and emotional conflicts of his characters. An analysis of three of Rattigan's most popular and influential works--"The Winslow Boy, Separate Tables, Ross"--highlights Rattigan's Romantic Realist focus on universal personal issues and…

Discusses the merits of responding intellectually versus affectively to the language that is employed in a poem. (RB)

Shares one particular success that the author has had using technology with English instruction, but also offsets this with some of the disappointments that he has had, and no doubt will continue to have. Discusses how he asks students to consider the ways in which they could visualize the text using the PowerPoint application. (SG)

"World of Warcraft" is an online computer game with over nine million players, many of them technically-minded young males. A proportion of these young males engage in spontaneous creative writing about their game adventures. They enjoy highly formulaic genres, such as the epic poem, with its complex technical requirements. This has…

To be used in conjunction with discussions on course planning and overall school assessment, this booklet outlines the different audiences and kinds of evaluations the English teacher needs to consider. The booklet contains lists of questions for parents, students, administrators, and teachers who evaluate instructional goals, strategies, and…

Argues that a valid model for writing good literature must stress the importance of imagination and provides samples from serveral writers to buttress the point. (RB)

Describes a writing exercise in which students are asked to write questions to be submitted to a hypothetical computer. Suggestions for subsequent activities are provided. (TO)

Survey prepared by the Research and Curriculum Branch of the Queensland Department of Education. (SP)

Presents two narratives from beginning English teachers. The narratives included are: "At the Centre of All This" (Kristie French); and "Praying for Control" (Cecile Grumelart). (SG)

During the course of an interview, Terry Eagleton, one of England's foremost Marxist critics, talks about his political and critical position and about related contemporary developments. (HOD)

Examines the teaching of poetry in Australian schools as it has been attempted in the past few decades and questions whether poetry teaching can be more successful even with the new understandings of language development and literary response. (HOD)