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Illesca, Bella – Changing English: Studies in Culture and Education, 2023
This essay uses storytelling as a mode of inquiry to explore how students with languages other than English and with diasporic experiences and identities negotiate a pathway for themselves in a relentlessly Anglophone environment. I share a story that provides a small window into the everyday work of an English teacher in a large, linguistically…
Descriptors: Story Telling, English Instruction, English Teachers, Standard Spoken Usage
Lovejoy, Valerie; Thomas, Damon; Mow, Laura; Edgar, Christine; Alford, Sophie; Prain, Vaughan – English in Australia, 2020
Despite an intense focus on improving Australian students' writing performance in recent years, and comprehensive instructional advice to English teachers, researchers have noted a lack of gains in standardised writing tests and negative effects on student engagement and learning. In this paper we claim that these outcomes are partly attributable…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Writing Achievement, Writing Instruction, English Instruction
Spina, Nerida – English in Education, 2017
The global neoliberal context and the emergence of new forms of 'governance by numbers' is now recognized as a ubiquitous educational phenomenon. In this context, large-scale assessments such as are used to justify marketised ideals of education that rely on comparison by numbers. In Australia, one of the key arguments for large scale standardised…
Descriptors: Governance, Neoliberalism, Achievement Tests, International Assessment