Australian Journal of Language and Literacy articles from June 2008

Australian Journal of Language and Literacy archives from June 2008

Editorial introduction.
June 1, 2008... This volume of AJLL is titled Challenging Pedagogies: Engaging ESL Students in Intellectual Quality, and is the second of our 'themed' issues. This issue was co-ordinated by Associate Professor Jenny Hammond from the University of Technology,...

Challenging pedagogies: engaging ESL students in intellectual quality.(english as a second language)(Report)
June 1, 2008... The importance of overall quality of teaching as a key factor in students' educational success has received wide recognition in recent years (Ramsey, 2000; Vinson, 2002). Good teaching and sound pedagogy, it is argued, make a major difference...

"This is as good as it gets": classroom lessons and learning in challenging circumstances.(Report)
June 1, 2008... Introduction Pedagogical reform has become a central focus of concern within educational policy in NSW. In 2002, after an extensive review of schools throughout the state, and of school reform more generally, the Independent Inquiry into...

Intellectual challenge and ESL students: implications of quality teaching initiatives.(english as a second language)(Report)
June 1, 2008... Introduction The importance of intellectual challenge in the pedagogy of schooling has been recognised both nationally and internationally. Teaching and learning activities, it has been argued, need to be rooted in high standards of...

"It was taught good and I learned a lot": intellectual practices and ESL learners in the middle years.(english as a second language)(Report)
June 1, 2008... Introduction The words in the title of this paper came from a Year 7 (1) English language learner who had just completed a unit on energy and forces, structured around student-designed experiments aimed to test the validity of a number of...

Literacy in history: language and meaning.(Report)
June 1, 2008... Literacy in history: Language and meaning Today's classrooms are composed of students who come from diverse cultural and linguistic backgrounds. In this context, it is important for teachers to have instructional strategies that ensure that...

Talk, text, and knowledge in cumulative, integrated learning: a response to 'intellectual challenge'.(Report)
June 1, 2008... "An accumulation of historical facts is no more a science than a pile of bricks is a house." (J. Henri Poincare, 1895, cited in Scribner, 1963) Introduction In this paper we address the key issue on which this edition is...