Australian Journal of Language and Literacy articles from October 2003

Australian Journal of Language and Literacy archives from October 2003

Editors' introduction.(Editorial)
October 1, 2003... Boys in literacy is the theme linking three of the articles in this issue. Each examines this important and current concern from a different perspective. Wayne Martino, writing of 'Boys, masculinities and literacy: addressing the issues' is...

Boys, masculinities and literacy: addressing the issues.
October 1, 2003... Introduction Discussion about boys' lower literacy performance relative to that of girls continues to persist in what may be termed a post-feminist era of backlash and 'recuperative masculinity politics' (Lingard & Douglas, 1999; Foster,...

Boys' and girls' use of linguistic space in small-group discussions: Whose talk dominates?
October 1, 2003... Introduction This paper explores differences in the way that boys and girls use the linguistic space in the context of small-group literature discussions. The research builds on our interest in a constructivist approach to small-group...

'Reading relationships': parents, boys, and reading as cultural practice.
October 1, 2003... Introduction Research into family literacy practices has been extensively documented (see among others Barton et al., 2000; Cairney, 1998; Heath, 1983; Spreadbury, 1995; Wells, 1986) with influential studies such as those conducted by...

Making literacy policy and practice with a difference.
October 1, 2003... Policy matters My talk today is about educational policy and, more specifically, literacy in education policy in Queensland and Australia. Typically, in educational taxonomies and cycles of research and development we get to policy last,...