Australian Journal of Language and Literacy articles from February 2006

Australian Journal of Language and Literacy archives from February 2006

Editorial introduction.(Editorial)
February 1, 2006... This issue of the Australian Journal of Language and Literacy starts 2006 with articles directed to all spheres of our readership. Primary, middle school and secondary classroom teachers, teacher educators, and researchers should find all...

Images, politics and multiliteracies: using a visual metalanguage.
February 1, 2006... Over a period of 10 weeks, a Year 6 class in south-western Sydney had been learning about the theme of democracy, both in terms of the Australian systems of government and also in their own school context, where they were promoting themselves...

The 'textual shift': examining the reading process with print, visual and multimodal texts.
February 1, 2006... Introduction In the realm of literacy education there is much discussion of the textual shift, and thus 'paradigm shift' (Bearne, 2003) that has occurred for today's students whose environment is filled with visual electronic and digital...

Pathways to multiliteracies: student teachers' critical reflections on a multimodal text.
February 1, 2006... Introduction In recent years, Australian educators have engaged in important dialogue about the need for students in schools to develop broad repertoires of literacy practice (ACDE, 2001; Cope & Kalantzis, 2000; Luke, 2000, 2003; Luke &...

Hierarchies in diversities: what students' examined responses tell us about literacy practices in contemporary school English.
February 1, 2006... The text is a transformation of the specialised interactional practice... a form of the social relationship made visible, palpable, material... and it should be possible to recover the original specialised interactional...

STELLA: professional learning pilot project.
February 1, 2006... Introduction The STELLA pilot was undertaken in the context of the National Institute's (NIQTSL) focus on developing national standards for the accomplished teacher and the current research context related to developing quality teachers....