Australian Journal of Language and Literacy articles from February 2001

Australian Journal of Language and Literacy archives from February 2001

Editors' introduction.
February 1, 2001... This year Australia celebrates 100 years of nationhood. It is a time for reflection on our past and for consideration of what is best for our nation during the next 100 years. In 1901 we were a country of four million, mainly from Anglo-Celtic...

Erratum.(Correction Notice)
February 1, 2001... In the last issue of AJLL we omitted the following author note for Jennifer Rennie. Jennifer Rennie is currently a teacher at Palmerston High School where she manages a Commonwealth-funded Literacy and Numeracy initiative. In conjunction...

Questioning text levels.
February 1, 2001... `Gradients of difficulty are essential for teachers making good decisions about materials they select for children to read but all gradients are inevitably fallible.' Clay 1991, p. 201 Text levelling is a way for educators to analyse...

An investigation of teacher preferences for word identification strategies.(Statistical Data Included)
February 1, 2001... Introduction `The Literacy Experts Group's advice on appropriate instructional approaches was based on a concern they expressed that teachers may not always select appropriate strategies, particularly when working with struggling readers'...

Out of the mouths of boys: A profile of boys committed to reading.(Statistical Data Included)
February 1, 2001... Introduction In 1981 a National survey of the reading habits and attitudes of Australian adolescents was conducted by Rhonda Bunbury (1995; `Children's Choice' contains the report). Bunbury and her team examined adolescents' reading of a...

Reading the mismatch: Differing perceptions of boys' reading practices.
February 1, 2001... Introduction As English educators we face the dilemma of increasing boys' participation in the English classroom, and encouraging them to read. Government reports into literacy skills routinely present statistics to support our concerns...

Boys and reading: Investigating the impact of masculinities on boys' reading preferences and involvement in literacy.
February 1, 2001... Introduction Boys who enjoy reading or like English have been referred to as `faggots', `squids', `squares', `spocks' `try-hards' or simply just as `rejects' by their peers (Kowaluk 1999, Martino 1994). As Sanderson (1995) illustrates, for...

Multiliteracies: Literacy Learning and the Design of Social Futures.(Review)
February 1, 2001... Multiliteracies: Literacy Learning and the Design of Social Futures B. Cope and M. Kalantzis, (editors) Contributors: David Bond, Courtney B. Cazden, Bill Cope, Norman Fairclough, James Paul Gee, Mary Kalantzis, Gunther Kress, Joseph Lo...