ACTA Background Papers & TESOL in Context
ACTA Background Papers
Four special issue publications from ACTA
No. 1 (1998)
- Finding and Showing the Way: Teaching ESL in the late 1990s (Alan Williams)
No. 2 (1998)
- The Literacy Benchmarks and ESL (Penny McKay)
- ESL … Is it Migrant Literacy? … Is it History? (Joseph Lo Bianco)
- Literacy – meeting the needs of all learners (Dorothy Hoddinott)
- Discriminatory features for ESL learners in the Literacy Benchmarks (Penny McKay)
No. 3 (1999)
- The Distinctiveness of English as an Additional Language: A Cross-curriculum discipline - A handbook for all teachers. (National Association for Language Development in the Curriculum NALDIC, UK)
No. 4 (1999)
- ESL Teaching in the Global Hypermedia Environment. (Chris Corbel)
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TESOL in Context
"TESOL In Context" is the journal of the Australian Council of TESOL Associations (ACTA) available from VATME
Vol. 1 No. 1 (1991)
Vol. 1 No. 2 (1991)
Vol. 2 No. 1 (1992) Collaborative Approaches to Teaching and Learning
Contents:
- What’s in a name? To be NESB or LBOTE or LOTEB? That is the question (Alan Williams)
- The light globe has to want to change: Supervision as a collaborative process (Ruth Wajnryb)
- Both bridge and barrier: The potential problems of science for the second language learner (Mitch O’Toole)
- ESL informed planning in the mainstream: Using the ESL Framework of Stages (Penny McKay)
- Cooperative learning as an approach to second language learning (Mary Mifsud & Elina Raso)
- Introduction to problem-solving with NESB students (Sandra Bouwmans & Barbara Mahle)
- Making the process collaborative (Allan Goedecke)
- The mainstreaming of ESL at Burwood Girls’ High School (Maeve Doyle & Janet Reinhardt)
- Look out: Eight fatal flaws in team teaching (Chris Davison)
- A collaborative approach to ESL in the mainstream (Jenny Barnett interviews Deb Rees)
Vol. 2 No. 2 (1992) Assessment
Contents:
- The ethics of TESOL (Alan Williams)
- Late night live: The Primary Language Record (Helen Moore interviews Hilary Hester)
- The NLLIA ESL development project and assessment in the curriculum (Tom Lumley & Penny McKay)
- Assessment for Year 12 ESL students: A case study (Rosemary McLoughlin)
- Cloze: What does it really tell us? (Kieran O’Loughlin)
- Language assessments in preschool settings (Priscilla M. Clarke)
- Procedures for monitoring and assessing ESL developments in the primary classroom (Sarina Greco & Elina Raso)
- The importance of wearing different hats on different occasions (Rosemary Senior)
- Training learners for self-assessment (Barbara Cram)
- Drama, role-play and assessment (Ben-Zion Weiss)
- A Language Record for new arrivals (Sarina Greco talks with Pam McKenzie & Kris McDonald)
Vol. 3 No. 1 (1993)
Vol. 3 No. 2 (1993)
Vol. 4 No. 1 (1994)
Contents:
- Reflections of reality: Australian children’s fiction (Jill Brown)
- How competent are competencies? (Alan Williams)
- The denial of a native language: Deaf students learning English (Linda Komesaroff)
- One world or two: Primary and adult learning contexts (Sue Elliott)
- Have TESOL and multicultural education had their day? (Joe Lo Bianco)
- Using word processing to teach writing: Issues for first time teachers (Joanna Tapper)
- Aboriginal literature in a TESOL context (Jack Frawley)
- Teaching international students and FLOTEs at tertiary level (Andy Kirkpatrick)
- Aboriginal perspectives across the curriculum: A model of professional development (Kathy Johnston talks with Michael Murray)
- Functional grammar and dictogloss: What does ‘good grammar’ really mean? (Annabelle Lukin)
Vol. 5 No. 1 (1995)
Contents:
- Telling the history of the 1991 Australian Language and Literacy Policy (Helen Moore)
- TESOL and cultural incorporation: Are we doing the devil’s work? (Alan Williams)
- The role of materials in the language classroom: Finding the balance (Jane Crawford)
- Texts for ESL and adult literacy learners (Anne Simpson)
- Decoding silence: A guide to teaching at Japanese universities (Kyoko Norma Nozaki)
Vol. 5 No. 2 (1995)
Contents:
- National ESL initiatives in language and literacy and their implications for the classroom (Margaret Osborne)
- An Australian perspective on the International Language Testing System (IELTS) (David Ingram)
- Language learning resources on the Internet (James Garton & Stephen Heimans)
- Textbook choice: Some considerations (Tova Teitelbaum)
- The inclusion of drama in the syllabus to facilitate the development of oral skills in the ESL class (Anne-Marie Barraja-Rohan)
Vol. 6 No. 1 (1996)
Contents:
- The four strands of a language course (Paul Nation)
- Teaching grammar: Rethinking the approach (Margaret Kettle)
- ‘Mainstreaming’: Issues and concerns (Charlotte Franson)
- Management ELICOS-style: Unique and coming of age (Sue Savage)
- A model for improving oral communication skills in tertiary-directed learners of English (Charles Clennel)
Vol. 6 No. 2 (1996)
Contents:
- The Mainstream, wedge politics and the revival of xenophobia: What future for multicultural education? (Mary Kalantzis)
- Language and culture: Moulding the personality (Svetlana Ter-Minasova)
- Reconstructing classroom speech events: Student power in an Aboriginal ESL context (Jenny Barnett)
- How different is the input ESL teachers provide to adult and child learners? (Rhonda Oliver)
- Profiling: Processes and outcomes (Marietta Elliott)
Vol. 7 No. 2 (1997)
Contents:
- The Victorian Certificate of Education (VCE) English/ESL examination: A valid and reliable process? (Jill Brown)
- Intervention in the tertiary writing process (Rosemary Allen & Judith Rochecouste)
- Why won’t they talk?: The difficulties of engaging victims of trauma in classroom interaction (Ninetta Santoro)
- “I correct everything”: Some views on correcting ESL secondary students’ grammar (Norman Ryder)
Vol. 8 No. 1 (1998)
Contents:
- Literacy, citizenship and multiculturalism (Joe Lo Bianco)
- Practices imperfect (Bonny Norton)
- Genre in the Australian context: An overview (Elizabeth Yates)
- Systems of genre and the TESOL classroom (Brian Paltridge)
- A sensitive period for lexical acquisition? (Katherine Spadaro)
Vol. 8 No. 2 (1998)
Contents:
- Standardisation, variation and authority in English: The impact on language diversity (Richard B. Baldauf, Jr.)
- Life on the screen: Teachers’ identit(ies) in the age of the Internet (Chris Corbel)
- Secondary school ESL learners’ perceptions of pair work in Australian classrooms (Shubhra Mishra & Rhonda Oliver)
- Maximising the value of self access (Rosnah Mustafa & Penny Lee)
Vol. 9 No. 1 (1999)
Contents:
- Addressing the grammar-gap in task-work (Jack Richards)
- Text-based syllabus design (Susan Feez)
- Second language teaching materials: Rethinking their purpose and potential (Ninetta Santoro)
- Teacher’s choices and children’s literature (Lesley Ljungdahl)
Vol. 9 No. 2 (1999)
Contents:
- The contributions of new technologies to language learning and teaching (Emilia Di Martino)
- The challenge of using computers in the ESL classroom: An Internet-published student project (Louisa Chawhan & David Norman)
- A Course Without a Classroom: Learning to Use the Internet to Improve EFL Writing Skills (Paul Snookes & Takeshi Okada)
- Plagiarism: An LBOTE Perspective (Richard Warner)
Vol. 10 No. 1 (2000)
Contents:
- Through the lens of scaffolding: Genre pedagogy and talk in multilingual classrooms (Paul Dufficy)
- “They won’t let me talk!” Exploring the rules of interaction in casual conversation with our ESL students (Christine Riddell)
- What beliefs do ESL students hold about language learning? (Louisa Chawham & Rhonda Oliver)
- Casualisation of the ESL workforce in Australia (Santina Bertone)
Vol. 10 No. 2 (2000)
Contents:
- The role of communication in the integration/socialisation process (Mai Nguyen-Tu)
- Englishes and literacies: Indigenous Australian contexts (Penny Tripcony)
- Choosing and using tasks: Research contributions (Peter Skehan)
- Essay writing: EAP teachers interpret university requirements (Marilyn Lewis)
- Bilingual education: Looking for the big picture (Kathy McMahon & Fran Murray)
- Milthun Latju Wana Romgu Yolnu: Valuing Yolnu knowledge in the education system (Raymattja Marika)
Vol. 11 No. 1 (2001)
Vol. 11 No. 2 (2002)
Vol. 12 No. 1 (2002)
Contents:
- First hand experiences of a learner from a diverse culture (May O'Brien)
- Lessons for onshore ESL from offshore scientific writing workshops (Margaret Cargill)
- Metaphors in the media: Helping ESL students to understand media texts (Ursula McGowan)
- Exploring the development of a narrative of personal experience in adult second language writing: A systemic functional linguistic perspective (Len Unsworth, Cristina Astorga and Sylvia Kaul)
- What makes a good essay? Learners' perceptions (Marilyn Lewis)
Vol. 13 No. 1 (2003)
Contents:
- English Language and literacy development and home language support: Connections and directions in working with Indigenous Students (Ian Malcom)
- The ecology of emergent second language writing (Lyn Turner)
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