Mother-tongue teaching in Australia: The case of new South Wales

L1 Educational Studies in Language and Literature

Volumn 1, Issue 1, 2001, Pages 87-104

  Sawyer, Wayne ^a   Watson, Ken ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN SYDNEY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Australia; Critical literacy; Curriculum; English; Genre; Growth model; Literacy; Mother tongue education; Secondary schooling; Syllabuses

Indexed keywords

EID: 84949116241     PISSN: 15676617     EISSN: 15731731     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1011536027121     Document Type: Article

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