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Literacy, Language and Communication
A Hollywood English Pronunciation for Japanese Students?
Eoin Jordan discusses Japanese university students’ attitudes towards Japanese English and inner circle English pronunciation, with the aim…
Reader, Come Home
Maryanne Wolf considers the future of the reading brain and our capacity for critical thinking, empathy, and reflection as we become increasingly dependent on digital technologies
Displaced academics: consequences of the changing landscape of teacher education
How is politics affecting literacy teacher educators? Clare Kosnik discusses literacy teacher pedagogies, identity and well-being. Image courtesy…
Experimenting with creativity, immigration, language, power, and technology
Francis Bangou discusses the actualization of a researcher’s attempt to engage, both conceptually and methodologically, with the dynamic…
Planting Critical Ideas
Jeff Adams discusses the nineteenth-century idea of anti-mimesis in detail and how artists are challenging human interventions into…
Antiracist Writing Assessment Ecologies
Asao B. Inoue discusses classroom writing assessment as a complex system that is “more than” its interconnected elements.…
Using functional grammar in English literacy teaching and learning
Systemic functional linguistics (SFL) is an approach to the study of language as a social semiotic system. Zhihui…
Writing a Novel with Roma Primary School Children
Story Makers Press (SMP) is a University-based publisher which co-constructs stories with under-represented groups of children in order…
Moving Beyond the Common Core
Duane Roen discusses the top-down model of assessment that has dominated K-12 education and is currently being promoted…
Japanese Live
Ikuko Komuro-Lee discusses the best-selling listening comprehension textbook, Japanese “Live.” Ikuko Komuro-Lee joined the Department of East Asian…
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