Australian Journal of Language and Literacy articles from February 1997

Australian Journal of Language and Literacy archives from February 1997

Debating literacy in Australia: history lessons and popular f(r)ictions.
February 1, 1997... Snapshots Illiteracy is not only a cruel and unjust handicap, from the point of view of the individual, but a disgrace, and indeed a menace, from the point of view of society. The Duncan Report [Adult Education in Australia], 1944, p. 106....

A feminist critique of the Cornerstones program: the absence of gender in literacy in the early years.
February 1, 1997... This article offers a feminist critique of a training and development program in early literacy teaching and learning, a component of the SA Department of Education and Children's Services Early Years Strategy, 1994-98. We are members of a...

Some practicalities of a language-based theory of learning.
February 1, 1997... If we compare the examples of factual writing in Figure 1, we will quickly see that the piece in the left-hand column is very much like speech written down, while the piece on the right shows much more use of the distinctive grammatical...

Functional literacies of householders: current demands and coping strategies--a report of a pilot study.
February 1, 1997... Introduction The decision to mount a pilot study of the literacies of householders grew from a concern with the increasing pressure on teachers to redress what is frequently announced, particularly in the popular media, as a decline in...

Beginning reading: phonemic awareness and whole texts.
February 1, 1997... It may be serendipity, or a function of the news media I sample during the course of each day, but I have increasingly heard it claimed from various sources that Australia is again facing a literacy crisis. Politicians, radio broadcasters and...

Social Worlds of Children Learning to Write in an Urban Primary School.
February 1, 1997... As human beings we seem to be driven to categorizing aspects of the world into neat boxes -- the popular, the literary, the folk, the oral, and the literate -- developmental lines and sociocultural boxes. But these neat boxes keep an of US,...

I See What You Mean: Children at Work with Visual Information.
February 1, 1997... Steve Moline's I see what you mean is a very practical publication. As the author reminds us in the introduction, all texts include some visual forms, whether they be the layout or the printed page of the use of diagrams, graphs or...

Pathways to Literacy: Children, Teachers and Learning Series.
February 1, 1997... The focus of Pathways to Literacy is on the term pathways. Trevor Cairney clearly states his belief that there is no single pathway to literacy learning and suggests that researchers and teachers must explore the different paths in which...