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Ngoc Nhu Nguyen – Teaching in Higher Education, 2024
When lecturers integrate feature films and TV series (FF/TV) into their teaching, they are not always fully aware of how these media achieve their effects on students. Regardless of discipline, lecturers need a working knowledge of film literacy to effectively enable student learning through FF/TV representations. This study surveyed and…
Descriptors: Universities, Films, Intermode Differences, Learning Modalities
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Marianne Turner; Ekaterina Tour – Australian Journal of Language and Literacy, 2024
In countries such as Australia, the bi/multilingual student demographic is increasing. Bi/multilingual students are commonly learning alongside monolingual students and also Indigenous and first- and second-generation immigrant students who have a great range of exposure to heritage languages. In this article, we explore how literacies and…
Descriptors: Literacy Education, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Native Language
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Celeste Fletcher; Cassandra Iannucci; Dylan Scanlon – Curriculum Studies in Health and Physical Education, 2024
In physical education, assessment is a fundamental component of purposeful and meaningful learning experiences for students, with the predominant goal to support and enhance student learning. Implementing the use of digital technologies in physical education can also contribute to improved engagement, motivation and student learning. While there…
Descriptors: Computer Assisted Testing, Student Evaluation, Educational Practices, Multiple Literacies
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Deb Brosseuk – Australian Journal of Language and Literacy, 2021
British sociologist Basil Bernstein's theorisations of pedagogic practice have inspired education research at the micro-level of the classroom; however, there is some limitation so far as understanding educators' pedagogic impact on learners' text production in the early years. Specifically, this limitation concerns how educators can craft a…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Audio Equipment, Preschool Children, Educational Theories
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Powell, Sarah J.; Somerville, Margaret – Discourse: Studies in the Cultural Politics of Education, 2022
In performing the zombie game, children enact embodied literacies through movement, gesture, and sound, and through incorporating the materiality and the spatiality of the outdoor area. They communicate in many ways, both brutal and subtle, enacting their understandings with each other as well as with other adults. The repeated performance seems…
Descriptors: Preschool Children, Educational Games, Human Body, Motion
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Ekaterina Tour; Marianne Turner; Anne Keary; Khanh-Linh Tran-Dang – Language and Education, 2024
It has been widely recognised that plurilingual pedagogy offers many benefits both for language learning and learning in general. However, in contexts where the linguistic profile of students is diverse, it can still be challenging for teachers to view working with the language resources of their students as feasible. In this article, we discuss…
Descriptors: Multilingualism, Multiple Literacies, Correlation, Teaching Methods
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Zhanna Hunter; Lisa Mangion; Louise Noell – English Australia Journal, 2024
The multiliteracies framework provides a pedagogical approach relevant to English language direct entry pathway (DEP) programs at university, recognising that education and communication in a multicultural, multimodal, and globalised world involves more than language literacy. Integrated assessments, in which some combination of listening,…
Descriptors: Multiple Literacies, English for Academic Purposes, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
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Yelland, Nicola J. – British Journal of Educational Technology, 2018
The data reported in this paper are part of a larger case study with children from 2 to 12 years of age, that took place over 4 years. The data reported here pertains to children in the age range 4-8 years of age in Australia. The children were from low socio-economic schools in one Australian state. The study was concerned with providing…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Young Children, Low Income Students, Teaching Methods
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Thomas, Angela; To, Vinh – English in Australia, 2019
'Asia literacy' can be loosely defined as having 'some understanding of Asia and its languages in order to engage with it and communicate with its people' (Erebus Consulting Partners, 2002). The Australian Curriculum has prioritised children's development of Asia literacy, specifically through articulating the cross-curriculum priority defined as…
Descriptors: Asian Culture, Asian Studies, National Curriculum, Childrens Literature
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Windle, Joel – Research in Comparative and International Education, 2020
This article examines shifts in the meaning and relevance of institutionalised knowledge about social inequalities as it circulates globally. In so doing, it contributes to research critiquing an unequal geopolitics of knowledge that grants greatest authority to theories produced in the global north (Connell, 2007; Mignolo, 2003). I discuss the…
Descriptors: Social Differences, Criticism, Ethnography, Power Structure
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van Gelderen, Ben; Guthadjaka, Kathy – Australian Review of Applied Linguistics, 2019
In the famous Djuranydjura story from North-East Arnhem Land, when the visiting 'Macassan' offers the Yol?u ancestral dog rice, shoes and blankets, he rejects them all, in favour of his own land and resources. At Gäwa homeland on Elcho Island, this powerful story is reinterpreted to include the arrival of balanda (white) teachers, and their focus…
Descriptors: Malayo Polynesian Languages, Literacy Education, Cultural Influences, Foreign Countries
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Tan, Lynde; Zammit, Katina; D'warte, Jacqueline; Gearside, Anne – Language and Education, 2020
While recent literacy research shows an increasing uptake in multimodal literacies, there remains a disjunction between multimodal literacy teaching and assessment. This paper offers a critical review of assessment in the context of teaching multimodal literacies and begins by reviewing the notion of literacy and reframing assessment in…
Descriptors: Multiple Literacies, Teaching Methods, Evaluation Methods, Higher Education
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Gutierrez, Amanda; Lowe, Kevin; Guenther, John – Asia-Pacific Journal of Teacher Education, 2021
Improving Indigenous students' literacy is a major priority area for the Australian Government, receiving significant funding to address below benchmark English literacy standardised test results. Despite this, recent benchmark tests suggest Indigenous students continue to achieve well below the national average. This systematic review discusses…
Descriptors: Indigenous Populations, Benchmarking, Literacy Education, Literacy
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Humphrey, Sally – Language and Education, 2020
This paper reports on research which has explored essential requirements for pedagogies of hope, including the expansion of teachers' semiotic knowledge. The study, a professional learning intervention with teachers of young multilingual learners engaged in science inquiry, was informed by Systemic Functional Linguistics (SFL) descriptions of…
Descriptors: Role, Semiotics, Multiple Literacies, Teaching Methods
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Daddow, Angela – Teaching in Higher Education, 2016
With the massification of higher education in a knowledge-driven economy, Western universities have struggled to keep pace with the cultural, linguistic, educational and economic diversity of university students and the complex realities of their lifeworlds. This has generated systemic inequities for diverse or "non-traditional"…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Code Switching (Language), College Students, Foreign Countries
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