Australian Journal of Language and Literacy articles from February 2003

Australian Journal of Language and Literacy archives from February 2003

Editors' introduction.(literacy instruction )(Editorial)
February 1, 2003... Issue 26:1, the first for 2003, was intended to be a generalist issue with no particular focus. However it has emerged as an interesting reflection of current trends in literacy teaching and research. Each article, to some extent, considers...

Identity and text: developing self-conscious readers.
February 1, 2003... 'If we weren't doing any sessions, I probably wouldn't have thought much about the book being about Europeans and Aboriginals. I probably just thought it was like... It probably just meant to be like one of the others; that they just have no...

Multiliteracies in Torres Strait: a Mabuiag Island State School diabetes project.
February 1, 2003... Introduction There is considerable concern across Australia about low literacy levels among Indigenous students (for example, Marks & Ainley, 1997, p. 9; Education Queensland, 1999a). Accordingly, the Federal Government launched its...

Old technology and learning to be literate!
February 1, 2003... In this paper I set out to explore some of the constraints and opportunities that inhibit or support teachers to engage with new and contradictory demands around teaching and learning literacies in schools in the 21st century (Luke & Luke,...

Information literacy: a review and poststructural critique.
February 1, 2003... Traditional concepts of literacy, learning and knowledge used in libraries fall short of adequately explaining and providing for present social, cultural and economic conditions. This paper argues that, as icons of the Gutenbergian paradigm,...

An investigation of discourses of literacy assessment in two first year high school English classrooms.
February 1, 2003... The aim of this study was to develop an understanding of the discourses of classroom-based literacy assessment that may be established, negotiated and maintained by teachers and students during assessment-related classroom activities in two...

Crossing the Boundaries.(Book Review)
February 1, 2003... Crossing the Boundaries Geoff Bull & Michele Anstey Prentice Hall, 2002, ISBN 1 74009 810 2. 338 pages The boundaries described in the title, Crossing the Boundaries, are the 'traditional delineations' (as described in the blurb) between...

Managing Small Group Learning.(Book Review)
February 1, 2003... Managing Small Group Learning Jo-Anne Reid with Bill Green and Robyn English In the introduction to this book, the authors make it clear that this is 'not a book about "co-operative learning" or "collaborative group strategies"'. Instead,...