Reviewing English

  in the 21st Century

    second edition

edited by Wayne Sawyer and Eva Gold

Reviewing English provides English teachers and trainee English teachers with a comprehensive analysis of developments and trends in the teaching of English with emphasis on the implications for the modern classroom. Throughout the book there are practical suggestions for application of the ideas.

The contributors represent a broad range of English teaching experience, from several states and from all sectors of the education system. They are:

Peter Adams, Roslyn Arnold, David Baxter, Neil Bechervaise, Jan Connelly, Brenton Doecke, Cal Durrant, Lesley Fitzpatrick, Eva Gold, Mark Howie, John Hughes, Marilyn Kell, Michael Kindler, Graham Little, Jackie Manuel, Doug McClenaghan, Marion Meiers, Ray Misson, Diana Mitchell, Wendy Morgan, Robin Peel, Paul Richardson, Wayne Sawyer, Tina Sharpe, John Stephens, Jack Thompson, Ernie Tucker, Ken Watson

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      Reviewing English Contents

Introduction Graham Little

Reviewing

1.   Post-Dartmouth developments in English teaching in Australia       

2.   Seminal books on English teaching

      John Dixon’s Growth through English

      James Moffat’s Teaching the Universe of Discourse

3.   Imaginative re-creation of literature: a critical examination from the perspective of the 21st century

4.   Reconceptualising experience: growth pedagogy and youth culture           

5.   Peeking out from between the covers: teaching the media in English

Developing and contextualising

6.   Connecting voices: effective engagement and pedagogy for oral English

7.   The ‘Cultural Studies’ model of English

8.   The impact of literary theory

      A note on reader-response theory

      Poststructuralism

9.   Critical literacy

10. Questioning Popular culture

11. Literacy, genre studies and pedagogy

12. Process writing – confessions

13. Supporting ESL learners in English classrooms

14. Teachers of indigenous learners – shifting the discourse and troubling the pedagogy

15. English in Asia – the case of Japan

16. Play scripts and performance

17. Learning difficulties in literacy – overcoming a construct of the literate student

18. Responding to students’ achievements in English

Applying

19. Small group work

20. Reading – some questions and answers

21. Wide reading

      Wide reading in the English classroom

      Making and using a database for wide reading in the English classroom

22. Language in schools – some questions and answers

23. Applying functional grammar

24. Thinking through computers

25. Representing the real

26. Media practices

      Mass media activities

      Teaching reality TV

27. Visual literacy – enabling and promoting critical viewing

28. Picture books in the secondary classroom

29. The grammar of visual design in the English classroom

30. Recasting drama in English education

31. Drama practices

32. The revolution in the teaching of Shakespeare

33. Literature practices

      Developmental stages of reading literature

      Approaches to poetry

      Ways into novels and short stories

      Instant book

34. Journal writing – an essential tool of learning

35. Writing practices

36. Assessment in English