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Mother-tongue teaching in Australia: The case of New South Wales.

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dc.creator Watson, K.
dc.creator Sawyer, W.
dc.date 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z
dc.date.accessioned 2015-07-20T22:12:10Z
dc.date.available 2015-07-20T22:12:10Z
dc.identifier 1567-6617
dc.identifier 1573-1731
dc.identifier https://doaj.org/article/dc3d27a6197c4502a83490b10b766801
dc.identifier.uri http://evidence.thinkportal.org/handle/123456789/15027
dc.description Using the state of New South Wales (NSW) in Australia as a case study, this article explores the development of mother-tongue English as a subject in the junior-to-middle secondary years of schooling (years 7–10). The current syllabus for English in years 7–10, and its predecessor, were highly influenced by the work of James Moffett and John Dixon in instituting the ‘growth model’ of English in NSW – a model characterised partly by the substitution of exercises in grammar and related areas by the principle of language learning through use. This model of English has come under attack in Australia generally from two main sources: schools of critical literacy and advocates of a genre-based approach to writing. Each of these rejects what they see as an emphasis on the individual in the ‘growth’ model and a lack of a sense of social construction. From the late 1980s, genre-based approaches to writing increasingly identified themselves with ‘literacy’, until then a unproblematic ‘given’ in ‘English’ syllabuses. ‘Literacy’ in official documentation now refers to language practices across the curriculum and, in terms of writing, to formulaic practices which refuse to see subject-based language as problematic.
dc.language English
dc.publisher Springer
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dc.relation https://doaj.org/toc/1567-6617
dc.relation https://doaj.org/toc/1573-1731
dc.rights CC BY-NC-ND
dc.source L1 Educational Studies in Language and Literature, Vol 1, Iss 1, Pp 87-104 (2001)
dc.subject critical literacy
dc.subject curriculum
dc.subject groth model
dc.subject secondary schooling
dc.subject syllabuses
dc.subject Philology. Linguistics
dc.subject P1-1091
dc.subject Language and Literature
dc.subject P
dc.subject DOAJ:Linguistics
dc.subject DOAJ:Languages and Literatures
dc.subject Theory and practice of education
dc.subject LB5-3640
dc.subject Education
dc.subject L
dc.subject DOAJ:Education
dc.subject DOAJ:Social Sciences
dc.subject Philology. Linguistics
dc.subject P1-1091
dc.subject Language and Literature
dc.subject P
dc.subject DOAJ:Linguistics
dc.subject DOAJ:Languages and Literatures
dc.subject Theory and practice of education
dc.subject LB5-3640
dc.subject Education
dc.subject L
dc.subject DOAJ:Education
dc.subject DOAJ:Social Sciences
dc.subject Philology. Linguistics
dc.subject P1-1091
dc.subject Language and Literature
dc.subject P
dc.subject Theory and practice of education
dc.subject LB5-3640
dc.subject Education
dc.subject L
dc.subject Philology. Linguistics
dc.subject P1-1091
dc.subject Language and Literature
dc.subject P
dc.subject Theory and practice of education
dc.subject LB5-3640
dc.subject Education
dc.subject L
dc.subject Philology. Linguistics
dc.subject P1-1091
dc.subject Language and Literature
dc.subject P
dc.subject Theory and practice of education
dc.subject LB5-3640
dc.subject Education
dc.subject L
dc.title Mother-tongue teaching in Australia: The case of New South Wales.
dc.type article


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