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Direct linkMulder, Jean; Thomas, Caroline – English in Australia, 2021
Although "VCE English Language (EL)" has been offered for twenty years in Victoria, Australia, the subject, and especially students' experience of it, has had little evaluation. Using data from four surveys conducted across seven years with over 1500 Unit 3-4 "EL" students, augmented by VCAA enrolment data, a profile of…
Descriptors: Educational History, Written Language, Oral Language, Foreign Countries
Myhill, Debra; Lines, Helen; Watson, Annabel – English in Australia, 2012
The place of grammar in an English or literacy curriculum has long been a source of debate, one in which professionals, politicians and the public have often engaged with unbridled enthusiasm. As such, the debate has sometimes been characterised more by ideology or polemic, than by intellectual engagement with the core ideas. In part, this is…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Secondary School Students, Secondary School Teachers, English Teachers
Evans, Jenni – English in Australia, 2012
In this article, the author reflects on keynotes by Debra Myhill and Wayne Sawyer in a search for ways with grammar. One of the keynote speakers, Debra Myhill, shared her research into teaching grammar that she had conducted in the UK. Myhill had asked a sample of teachers to follow a specified unit plan and had conducted pre- and post-testing to…
Descriptors: English Instruction, Foreign Countries, National Curriculum, Writing Instruction
Jetnikoff, Anita – English in Australia, 2015
Current Australian policies and curricular frameworks demand that teachers and students use technology creatively and meaningfully in classrooms to develop students into 21C technological citizens. English teachers and students also have to learn new metalanguage around visual grammar since multimodal tasks often combine creative with critical…
Descriptors: Case Studies, English Instruction, Faculty Development, Secondary School Teachers
D'warte, Jacqueline – English in Australia, 2015
This paper presents research conducted with teachers and students in one year 7 and one year 8 English classroom that worked to support in school English language learning by calling on the resources and repertoires of plurilingual students. In this work, students and teachers were engaged as linguistic ethnographers of their own language…
Descriptors: Ethnography, Secondary School Students, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning
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
