Australian Journal of Language and Literacy articles from February 2000

Australian Journal of Language and Literacy archives from February 2000

Editors' introduction.(Brief Article)
February 1, 2000... Welcome to the first issue of AJLL in the new millennium. It feels quite strange writing `2000' and being in it--still seems futuristic. It is exciting to be living in the future and to be playing a role in disseminating vital information that...

`Not in My Classroom!' The Case for Using Multi-View Social Issues Books with Children.
February 1, 2000... Channel Two News is live at the scene at the Main Street Liquor Store in Santa Rosita. An ambulance has just left with the seriously wounded elderly man who has operated this store for the past eight months. He was shot at the store within the...

`So we can learn something as well as doing something fun': Learning about reading through Readers' Theatre.
February 1, 2000... `So we can learn something as well as doing something fun,' Alex wrote at the end of my first forty-minute session with his class. We were involved in an action research project using his class as a case study to investigate how educational...

Adult Literacy in Australia: Reading Beyond the Figures.
February 1, 2000... It has become commonplace for the education field in Australia to be presented with concerns, even indignation, about literacy levels among children at various stages of compulsory schooling. In more recent times these concerns have spread to...

Using Email Dialogue to Generate Communication in an English as a Second Language Classroom.
February 1, 2000... `I really appreciate the chances to use E-mail to communicate with my classmates over the last 12 weeks. Now I see emotion in language and I feel more comfortable using the English to tell my feelings,' commented an English as a second language...

National Assessment: The Basis for Home-School Partnerships?
February 1, 2000... The national assessment initiative was intended to be of particular benefit to parents(1) of children in the middle years of schooling (Australian Capital Territory (ACT) Government Schools, 1998, p. 7; Australian Council of State School...

Reading Instruction that Works: The Case of Balanced Teaching.(Review)
February 1, 2000... Reading Instruction that Works: The Case for Balanced Teaching Michael Pressley Published by Guilford Press, New York, NY 1998, 300 pp., $36.95 For many years teachers and researchers have questioned whether to follow a whole language...

Guiding Literacy Learners: Focus on Literacy.(Review)
February 1, 2000... Guiding Literacy Learners: Focus on Literacy Susan Hill Eleanor Curtain Publishing, Victoria 1999, 102 pp., $24.95 This simply written text describes how teachers might initiate guided literacy learning in classrooms. Using reading as the...