The Australian Journal of Language and Literacy, 2008
Little is known about how children under 5 years respond to electronic texts. Traditional methods... more Little is known about how children under 5 years respond to electronic texts. Traditional methods of transcription can record spoken language and paralinguistic features, but not the relations between children's non-verbal behaviour (e.g. gaze, gesture, facial expressions) and the visual elements which are the focus of their attention. In this paper, drawing on naturalistic videotaped data from 4 children aged 4-5 years interacting with I Spy CD-ROMs (Scholastic), we offer an innovative method of transcription which may be used to help us understand children's responses in depth. The method captures each child's language, body posture, facial expressions and gestures, in relation to the visual image and game sounds they are currently attending to. Our detailed observations suggest that the manner in which young children engage with e-games varies according to the social context, the textual features of the e-game and their proficiency in using computer hardware and softw...
This manifesto stems from a transmedia initiative for collective research designed to shape – fro... more This manifesto stems from a transmedia initiative for collective research designed to shape – from the bottom-up – a socially responsive and responsible culture of inquiry, in observing, recording, sharing and reflecting on the changes to communication and interaction caused by the COVID-19 crisis and their enduring effects post-pandemic. The objectives of the manifesto are (a) to identify key changes in communication and interaction practices during and after the COVID-19 pandemic, and (b) to offer a blueprint for an innovative methodology involving academics and nonacademics in collective research into these and any future changes to the communication landscape across different socio-cultural contexts. The manifesto presents: (1) the factors that make changes in communication and interaction during the COVID-19 pandemic topical for research; (2) the coordinates of these changes; (3) questions that these changes raise; (4) a proposal for a methodology that complements established r...
The increasing influx into Australia of (im)migrants whose first language is not English has made... more The increasing influx into Australia of (im)migrants whose first language is not English has made Australia linguistically more diverse than ever. Despite this, Australia remains a strongly Angloce...
Advancing Multimodal and Critical Discourse Studies
As a founder and leading figure in multimodality and social semiotics, Theo van Leuween has made ... more As a founder and leading figure in multimodality and social semiotics, Theo van Leuween has made significant contributions to a variety of research fields, including discourse analysis, sociolingui ...
We would like to acknowledge the role of State Library of New South Wales in initiating a researc... more We would like to acknowledge the role of State Library of New South Wales in initiating a research collaboration with the Institute of Early Childhood (currently Department of Educational Studies), Macquarie University in 2014, and funding the research project Developing a context-sensitive framework for supporting early literacy across NSW public libraries. We would also like to thank Mylee Joseph, Consultant, Public Library Services, State Library of NSW, for her support and advice with all aspects of this project, and for supporting our efforts to tailor this literature review to its target audience of public library staff and policy makers. We are grateful to Natalie Papaellinas who worked as a research assistant on the project in 2015-2016, and found many of the publications on early literacy in public libraries that have informed this review. Natalie also authored the section on craft and early literacy.
Bloomsbury Education and Childhood Studies. London: Bloomsbury Academic, 2019
The paper analyses current policies of bilingual education in Mexico, mainly addressing indigeno... more The paper analyses current policies of bilingual education in Mexico, mainly addressing indigenous population in the early year's services.
The Australian Journal of Language and Literacy, 2008
Little is known about how children under 5 years respond to electronic texts. Traditional methods... more Little is known about how children under 5 years respond to electronic texts. Traditional methods of transcription can record spoken language and paralinguistic features, but not the relations between children's non-verbal behaviour (e.g. gaze, gesture, facial expressions) and the visual elements which are the focus of their attention. In this paper, drawing on naturalistic videotaped data from 4 children aged 4-5 years interacting with I Spy CD-ROMs (Scholastic), we offer an innovative method of transcription which may be used to help us understand children's responses in depth. The method captures each child's language, body posture, facial expressions and gestures, in relation to the visual image and game sounds they are currently attending to. Our detailed observations suggest that the manner in which young children engage with e-games varies according to the social context, the textual features of the e-game and their proficiency in using computer hardware and softw...
This manifesto stems from a transmedia initiative for collective research designed to shape – fro... more This manifesto stems from a transmedia initiative for collective research designed to shape – from the bottom-up – a socially responsive and responsible culture of inquiry, in observing, recording, sharing and reflecting on the changes to communication and interaction caused by the COVID-19 crisis and their enduring effects post-pandemic. The objectives of the manifesto are (a) to identify key changes in communication and interaction practices during and after the COVID-19 pandemic, and (b) to offer a blueprint for an innovative methodology involving academics and nonacademics in collective research into these and any future changes to the communication landscape across different socio-cultural contexts. The manifesto presents: (1) the factors that make changes in communication and interaction during the COVID-19 pandemic topical for research; (2) the coordinates of these changes; (3) questions that these changes raise; (4) a proposal for a methodology that complements established r...
The increasing influx into Australia of (im)migrants whose first language is not English has made... more The increasing influx into Australia of (im)migrants whose first language is not English has made Australia linguistically more diverse than ever. Despite this, Australia remains a strongly Angloce...
Advancing Multimodal and Critical Discourse Studies
As a founder and leading figure in multimodality and social semiotics, Theo van Leuween has made ... more As a founder and leading figure in multimodality and social semiotics, Theo van Leuween has made significant contributions to a variety of research fields, including discourse analysis, sociolingui ...
We would like to acknowledge the role of State Library of New South Wales in initiating a researc... more We would like to acknowledge the role of State Library of New South Wales in initiating a research collaboration with the Institute of Early Childhood (currently Department of Educational Studies), Macquarie University in 2014, and funding the research project Developing a context-sensitive framework for supporting early literacy across NSW public libraries. We would also like to thank Mylee Joseph, Consultant, Public Library Services, State Library of NSW, for her support and advice with all aspects of this project, and for supporting our efforts to tailor this literature review to its target audience of public library staff and policy makers. We are grateful to Natalie Papaellinas who worked as a research assistant on the project in 2015-2016, and found many of the publications on early literacy in public libraries that have informed this review. Natalie also authored the section on craft and early literacy.
Bloomsbury Education and Childhood Studies. London: Bloomsbury Academic, 2019
The paper analyses current policies of bilingual education in Mexico, mainly addressing indigeno... more The paper analyses current policies of bilingual education in Mexico, mainly addressing indigenous population in the early year's services.
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