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Cumming, Joy; Kimber, Kay; Wyatt-Smith, Claire – English in Australia, 2012
This article examines synergies and gaps in the construction of English, literacy, multimodality in policy and curriculum in Australian education with a focus on current assessment practices and educational accountability in order to make recommendations for future practice for teachers and for policy-makers. The article builds on analyses of the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Public Policy, Educational Policy, Literacy
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Russell, Jennifer; Beavis, Catherine – English in Australia, 2012
Contemporary curriculum guidelines, such as those provided in the incoming Australian curriculum, call for English to attend to multimodal forms of text and literacy as well as more traditional forms. Students are expected to become capable and critical readers, users and creators of texts and forms of literacy that span everything from newspapers…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Curriculum Guides, Learning Modalities, Multimedia Instruction
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Callow, Jon; Zammit, Katina – English in Australia, 2012
From the original performances of Shakespeare's plays and the illustrated title page of his First Folios, to the current day use of YouTube, mobile phones and tablets, multimodal texts have been apparent across Western cultures. The rapid development over the last 20 years of technology has markedly increased access to a much broader array of…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Secondary School Students, Multiple Literacies, Learning Modalities