RESEARCH

Our collective research expertise covers the development of multimodal literacies and the teaching of the English curriculum across the years of schooling.  University of New England educational researchers have strengths in infants, primary and secondary English and literacy research, including the specialised literacy requirements in curriculum areas other than English.

Current projects focus on the use of grammar as a resource for developing students’ writing and text comprehension, writing development in senior secondary school English classrooms, curriculum literacies in subject areas ranging from science to legal studies, with a special focus on topics such as visual literacy and the role of images in different kinds of text comprehension and composition, children’s literature and e-literature for children and adolescents, multimedia authoring pedagogy for primary and middle school students, popular culture, computers and early literacy learning, Montessori education and literacy, reading multimodal texts in web-based environments and children’s online literacy practices outside of schooling.

We are available to support researchers, teachers, students and others involved in primary (elementary) and secondary (high) school education.  Professional Learning and Short Courses endorsed by the NSW Institute of Teachers are offered by the School of Education and can be accessed via the link.

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