Recent Publications

Grammar and Praxis: investigating a grammatics for twenty-first century school English (2011–2014)

Macken-Horarik, M. Love, K. & Unsworth, L. (2011) A grammatics 'good enough' for school English in the 21st century: Four challenges in realising the potential. Australian Journal of Language and Literacy. 34, (1), 9–21.

Macken-Horarik (2011) Building a knowledge structure for English: Reflections on the challenges of coherence, cumulative learning, portability and face validity. Australian Journal of Education. 55, (3), 183–278.

Macken-Horarik, M. (2012) Why school English needs a 'good enough' grammatics (and not more grammar). Changing English: Studies in Culture and Education, 19 (2), 179–194.

Macken-Horarik, M. (2013) English in a Tempest: The Value of Metaphor for Re-Imagining Grammar in English. English in Australia (special issue in honour of Garth Boomer), 48 (3), 46–53.

Unsworth, L. & Macken-Horarik, M. (in press) Interpretive responses to images in picture books by primary and secondary school students: Exploring curriculum expectations of a 'visual grammatics,' for English in Education.

Macken-Horarik, M. & Unsworth L. (in press) New Challenges for literature study in primary school English: Building teacher knowledge and know-how through systemic functional theory, for special issue of Onomázein focused on papers from IXth ALSFAL Congress.

Macken-Horarik, M., Sandiford, C. Love, K. & Unsworth, L. (under review) Knowing about and knowing how: Developing an account of linguistic knowledge adequate to school English, for Research in the Teaching of English.