This month, we would like to showcase a real-life example of how a teacher implemented a language-based pedagogy in the classroom. Here, grammar is not taught in isolation but as part of a wider framework of teaching and learning about language. This example describes the work of a science …
Classroom examples
A guest post from Lynette Lingard I use SFL in my EAL classroom to teach language and content side by side. Here’s one example of how it has worked for me. Three 12-year-old Samoan girls were withdrawn from class for regular EAL lessons with me. The last thing they wanted do was to be …
As teachers, our role is to move students from spoken to written realms and from written to spoken. We call this moving across the register continuum. At one end of the continuum (left), there is the most spoken language which usually happens face-to-face and accompanies some kind of …
The ability to listen effectively is dependent on a complex interplay between the listener, features of the text, and the context in which the text is being listened to. While listening comprehension requires a range of abilities on the part of the listener, it is also dependent on features of the …
Last month, Lexis Education's Director John Polias delivered a presentation at the Australian Literacy Educators' Association Conference on improving students’ science literacy through harmonising the patterns of meaning-making in the science classroom. In this video, John talks about how we, as …