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Direct linkBennett, Tamryn – English in Australia, 2011
What are the possibilities for poetry? This paper introduces approaches to creating and teaching poetry through a critical survey of contemporary practitioners within the field. Analysis of ekphrastic traditions, comics and concrete poetry, artists books, graffiti poems, film, performance and interdisciplinary collaborations reveal new…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Poetry, Visual Literacy, Interdisciplinary Approach
Leggo, Carl – English in Australia, 2011
What is the hold of literature on a reader's imagination, on my imagination? I remember many hours spent with books in a kind of romantic entanglement, and heartful obsession, and joyful reverie. I certainly remember being lost with words, lost in enthusiastic abandonment. I loved the sounds of words, and the images they conjured, and the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Reader Text Relationship, Reading Motivation, Reader Response
Curwood, Jen Scott – English in Australia, 2011
Prompted by calls for research on technology-focused professional development, this article investigates how learning communities influence secondary English teachers' use of digital tools. Findings from this year-long study in the United States indicate that the ways in which technology is integrated within the English curriculum are still very…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, English Teachers, Faculty Development, Educational Technology
Durrant, Cal – English in Australia, 2008
This article talks about the Australian Government "Summer School for Teachers" programme which was announced as part of the 2007-08 Budget Package: "Realising Our Potential." Funds earmarked for this initiative totalled some $102 million over four years, and it was sold to the Australian public as something that would both recognise and reward up…
Descriptors: Summer Schools, Foreign Countries, English Teachers, Professional Development
Sawyer, Wayne – English in Australia, 2007
In this article, the author reflects on a "powerfully literate citizen" in Statement Four of the Australian Association for the Teaching of English (AATE) "Statements of Belief". He discusses the definition of "literacy" and the creation of the powerfully literate citizen. He stresses that a powerfully literate citizen operates functionally and…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, English (Second Language), Second Language Instruction, Teacher Role
