Australian Journal of Language and Literacy articles

Recent articles from Australian Journal of Language and Literacy

Editorial.(Editorial)
June 1, 2009... Welcome to the June edition of AJLL. As teacher educators we are acutely aware of the importance of ensuring and maintaining high quality teaching in schools and in further education. Excellent teaching makes a difference that resonates throughout a child's life. The classroom is a diverse...

Education for biliteracy: maximising the linguistic potential of diverse learners in Australia's primary schools.(Report)
June 1, 2009... Language and literacy in the contemporary primary school A fundamental and well-recognised pedagogical role of schools and teachers in English-speaking countries is that of supporting students to develop language and literacy skills that facilitate participation in a broad range of...

Becoming school literate parents: an ESL perspective.(english as second language instructions)(Report)
June 1, 2009... Introduction As more children enter schools from families in which English is not the language spoken at home, literacy teachers face the challenge of building effective home and school partnerships that foster ESL (English as a Second Language) children's literacy development. In...

Evaluating the practicability and sustainability of a reading intervention programme, using preservice teachers as trained volunteers.(Report)
June 1, 2009... Introduction Reading is one of the most important skills that children develop while in school and the problems faced by struggling readers and the impact of early reading failure have been well documented (Juel, 1988; Stanovich, 1986). For many years schools have used parents and...

Competencies that underpin children's transition into early literacy.(Report)
June 1, 2009... There is a reported association between children's language development and their social and academic success in school (Bishop, 1997; Goodyer, 2000; Hay, Elias, Fielding-Barnsley, Homel, & Frieberg, 2007; Senechal, 2006). In terms of this association the evidence is that lower socio economic...