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Gyenes, Tom; Wilks, Judith – English in Australia, 2014
While the essay is the default assessment tool of the Humanities in upper secondary and tertiary education, it is a text type that has been slowly bled of communicative purpose. It is suffered by students, taught according to restrictive formula and ignored in the literature. Evidence from the tertiary sector, employers and public examinations…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Essays, Persuasive Discourse, Rhetoric
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Cole, David R. – English in Australia, 2014
This paper suggests how the "weird fiction" of H.P. Lovecraft might be mobilised within secondary English classrooms to examine aspects of visual literacy, literary style, narrative form and intertextuality. The approach that is outlined is characterised, after Lovecraft's famous monster, as a "Cthulhuic literacy" and is…
Descriptors: English Curriculum, Secondary Education, Science Fiction, Visual Literacy
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Kitson, Lisbeth – English in Australia, 2011
The comprehension of multimodal texts is now a key concern with the release of the Australian National Curriculum for English (ACARA, 2010). However, the nature of multimodal texts, the diversity of readers in classrooms, and the complex technological environments through which multimodal texts are mediated, requires English teachers to reconsider…
Descriptors: Video Technology, National Curriculum, Reading Comprehension, Multiple Literacies