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Fenwick, Lisl; Unsworth, Len – Curriculum Journal, 2023
This paper analyses the opportunities for presenting knowledge that are created when assessment allows senior high school biology students to draw on linguistic and visual resources when constructing meaning in response to short-answer examination-style questions requiring a sequential explanation. Students within one senior high school biology…
Descriptors: High School Seniors, Biology, Evaluation, Visual Stimuli
Ge, Yun-Ping; Unsworth, Len; Wang, Kuo-Hua; Chang, Huey-Por – Research in Science Education, 2018
From a social semiotic perspective, image designs in science textbooks are inevitably influenced by the sociocultural context in which the books are produced. The learning environments of Australia and Taiwan vary greatly. Drawing on social semiotics and cognitive science, this study compares classificational images in Australian and Taiwanese…
Descriptors: Junior High School Students, Semiotics, Foreign Countries, Science Instruction
Unsworth, Len; Macken-Horarik, Mary – English in Education, 2015
As well as maintaining the central role of literature, the new Australian Curriculum: English emphasises the multimodal nature of literacy and requires students in primary and secondary schools to develop explicit knowledge about visual and verbal grammar as a resource for text interpretation and text creation. This study investigated the use of…
Descriptors: Picture Books, National Curriculum, English Instruction, Elementary School Students
Love, Kristina; Sandiford, Carmel; Macken-Horarik, Mary; Unsworth, Len – English in Australia, 2014
We report in this paper on one aspect of a project designed to support teachers with the demands of the Language strand of the Australian Curriculum for English as this guides their development of a coherent account of knowledge about language and their implementation of this in building their students' literacy repertoires. We map the changing…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Persuasive Discourse, Writing Instruction, English Teachers