Australian Journal of Language and Literacy articles from June 2000

Australian Journal of Language and Literacy archives from June 2000

Literacy and the new technologies in school education: Meeting the l(IT)eracy challenge?
June 1, 2000... Introduction Literacy is changing. Once it was entirely shaped by the technologies of the printing and publishing industries and their associated cultures. Now, however, in an age of burgeoning new media of communication, information and...

Exploring the relationship between large-scale literacy testing programs and classroom-based assessment: A focus on teachers' accounts.
June 1, 2000... Introduction Literacy education and its assessment are currently major concerns for government, educational professionals and the community, with policy implications that reach beyond educational practice. In countries around the world,...

What matters to teachers? Let's listen.(Statistical Data Included)
June 1, 2000... Introduction Teachers in the many and varied school classrooms of any nation are the people who matter most in the search for high literacy achievements among the children in their care. However their concerns are not regularly sought as a...

Text-related variables in narrative picture books: Children's responses to visual and verbal texts.
June 1, 2000... Introduction The description of text-related variables in narrative picture books detailed in this article developed from a larger study of the beginning reading behaviour of young children who were learning English as a second language...

Do we allow what we encourage? How students are positioned by teacher feedback(1).
June 1, 2000... Introduction I have been working for some years on the self-identities that university students create in their academic writing. Much of my research has focused on addressing the need for teachers to recognise that students have a right...

Situated Literacies: Reading and Writing in Context.(Review)
June 1, 2000... Situated Literacies: Reading and Writing in Context David Barton, Mary Hamilton & Roz Ivanic (editors) Routledge, London, New York 1999, 222 pp., $49.95 What do media images of literacy practices as diverse as bilingual Welsh farmers at...

Phonics: Focus on Literacy.(Review)
June 1, 2000... Phonics: Focus on Literacy Susan Hill Eleanor Curtain Publishing, Armadale, Victoria, 1999, 96 pp., $24.95 Susan Hill is Associate Professor of Early Childhood at the University of South Australia, specialising in early literacy. She is a...