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Beavis, Catherine – English in Australia, 2010
Despite the emphasis in the press and elsewhere on the print-based nature of English curriculum, opportunities to develop digital English, with attention to web-based and multimodal forms of text, literacy, location, and activity, are present in the draft national (Australian) curriculum for English, alongside more traditional forms. This paper…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, National Curriculum, English Curriculum, Literacy
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Cumming, Joy; Kimber, Kay; Wyatt-Smith, Claire – English in Australia, 2011
Attainment of functional English literacy skills by all students has been a focus of Australian national policy since the 1989 Hobart Declaration (MCEETYA, 1989). This focus underpins current educational accountability policy enacted through the National Assessment Program-Literacy and Numeracy (NAPLAN). The Adelaide and Melbourne Declarations…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Literacy, Accountability, Functional Literacy