Australian Journal of Language and Literacy articles from October 1999

Australian Journal of Language and Literacy archives from October 1999

Editors' introduction.
October 1, 1999... The theme of this issue, Children's Literature, provoked a wide range of responses, characterising the diversity of issues and research in this field today. In the first article, Greer Johnson demonstrates how the same picture book can be...

Multiple readings of a picture book.
October 1, 1999... Introduction A focus on multiple readings paths is necessary if teachers are to expand students' understandings of the perennial question, what is (good) literature? The answer lies not in traditional analysis of an appropriate canon of...

So who are we writing for?
October 1, 1999... As a writer for very young children I often struggle with the question: just who am I supposed to be writing for? Do I write for publishers, so they can make a dollar? Do I write for the critics, so they can make smart remarks? Is it for...

Reading(s) beneath the surface: Using picture books to foster a critical aesthetics.
October 1, 1999... Chasing Alice down the rabbit hole Imagine this: I'm sitting at my computer and I've just typed the above words. I sit back, read the words, and feel the momentary contentment that usually accompanies that first attempt to get started....

The text-image interaction and second language learning.
October 1, 1999... Introduction The aim of this article is to present some of the findings of a research study on the text-image relations in picture books used with children learning English as a Second Language that was undertaken in order to find out how...

Revisiting Book Chat: Developing new understandings through critical reflection.
October 1, 1999... Introduction In the early 1990s, I was involved in developing a model for guiding upper primary students in their discussion of children's literature, Book Chat: A book club model for the classroom (Clements & Godinho, 1994). Since the...

Everyday Literacies: Students, Discourse and social practice.(Review)
October 1, 1999... Everyday Literacies: Students, Discourse and social practice Michele Knobel Peter Lang Publishing Inc., New York 1999, 274pp., $US29.95 Everyday Literacies is a comprehensive exploration of language use and social practices in the everyday...

Teaching Critical Literacy Teachers' Voices 3.(Review)
October 1, 1999... Teaching Critical Literacy Teachers' Voices 3 Anne Burns and Susan Hood National Centre for English Language Teaching and Research, Macquarie University, NSW 1998, 68 pp., $29.65 One of the key theoretical ideas to emerge from recent...