Australian Journal of Language and Literacy articles from February 2004

Australian Journal of Language and Literacy archives from February 2004

Editors' introduction.(Editorial)
February 1, 2004... We begin this issue with a tribute to Carolyn Baker, written by her colleagues Susan Danby and Greer Johnson. We thank Susan and Greer for their moving and detailed memorial to a talented teacher and researcher. Carolyn's work in analysing talk...

Carolyn Diane Baker: 26 May 1946-12 July 2003.(IN MEMORIAM)(Obituary)
February 1, 2004... As members of the reviewer committee for the Australian Journal of Language and Literacy we respond to an invitation to remember our colleague, Associate Professor Carolyn Baker. On behalf of the many colleagues and friends, we wish to...

Displacing method(s)? Historical perspective in the teaching of reading.
February 1, 2004... Introduction At the present time, the International Reading Association is calling for. a scaling down of 'the reading wars' and, like Allan Luke (1998), is reminding both sides of the debate that reading pedagogy is much more than...

Six words of writing, many layers of significance: an examination of writing as social practice in an early grade classroom.
February 1, 2004... It was free choice activity in the classroom and six-year-old Charlie was engrossed in drawing a three-dimensional model of a stegosaurus. He drew a bit, sat back, looked at the model, then at his drawing, erased and revised what he had drawn,...

The role of images and image-text relations in group "Basic Skills Tests" of literacy for children in the primary school years.
February 1, 2004... Introduction The role of images relative to print in the communication of meanings is assuming greater prominence in contemporary texts (Bolter, 1998; Dresang & McClelland, 1999; Kellner, 2002; Kress, 1997; Kress & van Leeuwen, 1995;...

Repositioning academic literacy: charting the emergence of a community of practice.
February 1, 2004... Literacy and literacy education have been and continue to be contested terms and contested domains. Although debates in the media have identified literacy problems and crises in society in general, or in the teenagers or school children of...

Meeting of Minds.(Book Review)
February 1, 2004... Meeting of Minds McNaughton, S. (2002) Learning Media Limited, 2002, Wellington, NZ As we move further into an economic rationalist model of education where national testing and assessment procedures make difference invisible and where...