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Showing 1 to 8 of 8 for “"Subject english"”.
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Recasting the Subject: Curriculum, equity, and the educated ideal in secondary English classrooms
… content selection in New Zealand secondary English classrooms. The thesis critically explores how contemporary curriculum trends produce particular versions of subject English and considers the effects of these versions against social equity outcomes and the development of broader education …
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Senior secondary English in New South Wales: Linguistic and epistemic perspectives
This thesis examines senior secondary English in New South Wales, Australia’s most populous state, assessing almost 80,000 students per annum via externally-set examinations, and, at the time of writing, transitioning from an old to new senior English syllabus. Previous research (e.g., Christie …
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What place has grammar in the English curriculum? An analysis of ninety years’ policy debate: 1921 to 2011.
… governments have commissioned enquiries into English and literacy teaching, leading towards published recommendations and requirements for English grammar teaching. Governments’ officially sanctioned publications represent their policy aspirations for English and literacy. Research studies …
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Multiple readings in multiple choice reading tests: A study of year 11 students' reading practices of a multiple choice reading test
… for Western Australian Tertiary Entrance in subject English. Students' responses were transcribed and then analysed. In addition, the passages, questions and answers from the test were analysed to determine the different reading positions wade available through the questions and possible …
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Subject media : a study in the sociocultural framing of discourse
… or its value, but to raise questions about subject identity at the institutional level represented by an awarding body. In particular, the intention is to investigate further issues about assessment as a social practice raised by Nick Peim in his analysis of the cultural politics of English …
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Designed to fail: evaluating grade 1-3 English first additional language textbooks as preparation for English medium grade 4 natural sciences and technology in South Africa
… official school language policies mandating English as the medium of instruction from Grade 4 onwards, nearly half of South Africa's English Language Learners (ELLs) are obtaining less than 50% in their final (matric) English examinations. These same students are writing all of their other …
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Orientations to text: how classroom discourse affords or denies the enactment of critical literacy and learner agency in an English First Additional Language classroom
… resourced schools to gain access to powerful English resources remain limited and unequal (Prinsloo 2012), with a dearth of research into how school literacy practices in South Africa might contribute to this lack of access. This case study contributes towards the development of a detailed …
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You Heard the New Theory?: A Syntactic Analysis of Null Subjects and Null Auxiliaries in English
The following investigation of null subjects and null auxiliaries in English has two principle goals. First, it seeks to describe the occurrence of null subjects and null auxiliaries in English sentences. Second, it proposes a set of rules which attempt to account for the appearance of sentences …