Australian Journal of Language and Literacy articles from February 1999

Australian Journal of Language and Literacy archives from February 1999

Editors' introduction.(Brief Article)
February 1, 1999... This issue of The Australian Journal of Language and Literacy focusses on post-primary literacy, with three articles on literacy development and assessment in the lower secondary school and two articles dealing with ESL students at the upper...

From primary to secondary: Writing development in the middle years.
February 1, 1999... The author of this article argues that the focus on `the middle years of schooling' as afield of interest has long been overlooked. This is particularly evident in Australian research in the language development of older students. Ness Goodwin...

An editorial footnote.
February 1, 1999... `Help/We have to fill four more pages.' Not enough space for another article. Too much for a book review. Leave them blank? Insert some drawings? Instead, I have taken the liberty of filling these pages with an extended footnote to Ness...

English teachers' perceptions of literacy assessment in the first year of secondary school.
February 1, 1999... This study set out to investigate teachers' perceptions of the school-based literacy assessment systems used in Queensland state schools since the introduction of an English syllabus in 1994 which focusses on teaching and assessing literacy...

ELLA: Please explain.
February 1, 1999... In adopting the English Language and Literacy Assessment (ELLA) instrument as its model for assessing lower secondary students' literacy abilities, the NSW Department of Education and Training has made much of the diagnostic capabilities of...

Questions and identity: Local English, global students and a tertiary entrance examination.
February 1, 1999... If an exam essay is well structured, grammatically coherent and displays a sound knowledge of the topic, why then does it not receive a high grade? Lesley Farrell argues that teachers and examiners bring to their reading of the exam paper an...

Meeting the language needs of tertiary NESB students.
February 1, 1999... With the numbers of international and local non-English-speaking background (NESB) students steadily increasing in most university programs in Australia, teaching staff in all disciplines cannot now avoid issues surrounding the active support...

Language and Learning: The Home and School Years (2nd ed.).(Review)
February 1, 1999... Language and Learning: The Home and School Years (2nd ed.) Terry Piper New Jersey, Prentice-Hall Inc. 1998, 355pp., $120.95 Although not specifically a methods text, Language and Learning reiterates and reinforces valuable insights...

Differently Literate.(Review)
February 1, 1999... Differently Literate Elaine Millard London, Falmer Press 1997, 211pp., $36.95 Boys and literacy is a current hot topic; parents, schools, the media, academics and government are frequently found demanding and supplying analysis and...