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Bittman, M., Rutherford, L., Brown, J. & Unsworth, L. (2011) ‘Digital natives’?: New and old media and children’s outcomes. Australian Journal of Education 55: 2, 73–87.
Chan, E., & Unsworth, L. (2011). Image-language interaction in online reading environments: Challenges for students’ reading comprehension. Australian Educational Researcher, 38(2), 181-202.
Daly, A. and Unsworth, L. (2011) Analysis and comprehension of multimodal texts. Australian Journal of Language and Literacy, 34(1), 61-80.
Macken-Horarik, M., Love, K. and Unsworth, L. (2011) A grammatics ‘good enough’ for school English: Grammatical tools adequate to the national curriculum and to English in new times. Australian Journal of Language and Literacy, 34(1), 9-23.
Chandler, P., O'Brien, A., & Unsworth, L. (2010). Towards a 3D digital multimodal curriculum for the upper primary school. Australian Educational Computing, 25(1), 34-40.
O'Brien, A., Chandler, P., & Unsworth, L. (2010). 3D multimodal authoring in the middle years: a research project. Synergy, 8(1), 1-5.
Unsworth, L. and Chan, E. (2009) Bridging multimodal literacies and national assessment programs in literacy. Australian Journal of Language and Literacy
Unsworth, L., & Chan, E. (2008). Assessing integrative reading of images and text in group reading comprehension tests. Curriculum Perspectives, 28(3), 71-76.
Unsworth, L. (2008) Multiliteracies, e-Literature and English Teaching. Language and Education, 22(1):62-75.
Unsworth, L. and Ortigas, I. (2008) Exploring the Narrative Art of David Wiesner: Using a Grammar of Visual Design and Learning Experiences on the World Wide Web. L1-Educational Studies in Language & Literature, 8(3), p. 1-21. [http://l1.publication-archive.com/public?fn=enter&repository=1]
Noad, B. and Unsworth, L. (2007) Semiosis in the Film Soundtrack: Aural Perspective and Social Distance in ‘The Queen’ Film Trailer. Literacy Learning: the Middle Years, 15 (2):8-19.
Unsworth, L. (2006) Multiliteracies and a metalanguage of image/text relations: Implications for teaching English as a first or additional language in the 21st century. In K. Cadman & K. O'Regan (Eds.), Tales out of school: Identity and English language teaching. Special edition of TESOL in Context. Series S(1) pp147-162.
Unsworth, L. (2006) Towards a metalanguage for multiliteracies education: Describing the meaning-making resources of language-image interaction. English Teaching: Practice and Critique, 5(1):55-76.
Unsworth, L., Thomas, A. and Bush, R. (2004) The role of images and image-text relations in group ‘basic skills tests’ of literacy for children in the primary years. Australian Journal of Language and Literacy, 27(1):46-65.
Unsworth, L. (2004) Comparing school science explanations in books and computer-based formats: The role of images, image/text relations and hyperlinks. International Journal of Instructional Media, Vol31/3:283-301.
Unsworth, L. (2003) Re-framing research and literacy relating to CD ROM narratives: Addressing ‘radical change’ in digital age literature for children. Issues in Educational Research, 13(2):55-70.
Unsworth, L. (2003) Rethinking research and practice related to CD-ROM narratives in classroom literacy learning: articulating conventional and computer-based literacies. Interpretations, 36 (1): 23-28.
Unsworth, L., Astorga, C. and Kaul, S. (2002) Exploring the development of a narrative of personal experience in adult second language writing: a systemic functional linguistic perspective. TESOL in Context. 12(2):20-27.
Unsworth, L. (2002) Reading Grammatically: Exploring the constructedness of literary texts. L1 Educational Studies of Language and Literature. 2(2):121-140.
Unsworth, L. and Wheeler, J. (2002) Re-valuing the role of images in reviewing picture books. Reading: Language and Literacy 36(2):68-74
Unsworth, L. (2002) Changing dimensions of school literacies. Australian Journal of Language and Literacy 25(1):62-77.
Unsworth, L.(2001) Evaluating the language of different types of explanations in junior high school science texts. International Journal of Science Education 23(6):585-609
Unsworth, L. (1999) Explaining school science in book and CD ROM formats: Using semiotic analyses to compare the textual construction of knowledge. International Journal of Instructional Media, 26(2):159-179
Unsworth, L. (1999) Developing critical understanding of the specialised language of school science and history texts - A functional grammatical perspective. Journal of Adolescent and Adult Literacy, 42(7):508-527
Selected for republication in Moss, G. ed. (2004) Critical Reading in Content Areas. Dubuque, Indiana: McGraw-Hill/Dushkin Publishing.
Unsworth, L.(1997) "Sound" explanations in school science: A functional linguistic perspective on effective apprenticing texts. Linguistics and Education, 9(2):199-226.
Unsworth, L.(1997) Scaffolding reading of science explanations: Accessing the grammatical and visual forms of specialised knowledge . Reading , 31(3):30-42
Unsworth, L.(1997) Some practicalities of a language-based theory of learning. Australian Journal of Language and Literacy, 20(1):36-52
Unsworth, L. (1997) Explaining explanations: Enhancing science learning and literacy development. Australian Science Teachers Journal, 43(1):34-49
Callow, J. and Unsworth, L. (1997) Equity in the videosphere. Southern Review., 30(3):268-286
Unsworth, L. and Lockhart, A. (1994) Literacy and learning in science: What's happening in the junior primary school? Australian Journal of Language and Literacy, 17:212-226.
Unsworth, L. (1993) Multiple semiotic sources as scaffolding for young children's emergent reading of picture-story books. Australian Review of Applied Linguistics, 16 (2):1-14.
Unsworth, L. (1991) Linguistic form and the construction of knowledge in factual texts for primary school children. Educational Review, 43:201-212.
Unsworth, L. and Williams, G. (1990) Big books or big basals?: The significance of text form in constructing contexts for early literacy development through shared reading. Australian Journal of Reading, 13:100-111.
Unsworth, L. (1988) Whole language or procedural display? -The social context of popular whole language activities. Australian Journal of Reading, 11:127-137.
Unsworth, L. (1984) Meeting individual needs through flexible within-class groupings of pupils. The Reading Teacher, 38:298-304.
Unsworth, L.C. (1982) Meddling, modelling and muddling - reading in the content areas. Australian Journal of Reading, 5:6-18.