Pour apprendre à parler, les enfants doivent être capables de distinguer les mots au sein d’un environnement sonore varié, et la découverte précoce de la musique les accompagne dans cet effort.
- Associate Professor in Language, Literacy and TESL, University of Canberra
Mempelajari musik di tahun-tahun pertama pendidikan anak dapat membantu anak belajar untuk membaca.
La formación musical en los primeros años de escolarización influye positivamente en la capacidad lectora del alumno.
Learning music in the early years of schooling can help children learn to read.
The Victorian opposition has pledged funding for “decodable readers” which focus only on sounds. But kids prefer to read rich texts.
Teaching children how to break down words into their meaning and origin can help them be better spellers.
Schools should carefully consider the messages that are sent by how they have constructed the learning environment.
Education Minister Simon Birmingham is right to be concerned about the number of children struggling with literacy - but this test is not the solution.
The preliminary results of NAPLAN 2017 are out, and the news isn’t good. The annual test of our students’ literacy and numeracy skills shows that not much has changed since 2011, coincidentally – or not…
The English language test is an unfair barrier to anyone for whom English is not their mother tongue.
Here’s what the latest funding proposals mean for schools.
Four tips for teaching reading.
Child refugees need to have access to quality language programs so they have a chance at doing well at school - and teachers also need to be given appropriate training.
Were your teachers right about when to use commas, and about not starting sentences with ‘and’?
Politicians need to stop meddling with education policy and invest in teachers if Australia’s science, mathematics and reading standards are to improve.
Being able to sound out letters in words doesn’t mean you can understand them. There is no clear evidence that a new phonics screening test for children in Year 1 will help improve reading levels.
For subjects mired in jargon and technical words, what role does language play in breaking down obstacles to communication and understanding.
The government says that quality teachers are crucial to improving learning outcomes. Yet they still pursue policies that don’t put these teachers in front of our most marginalised students.
Children’s scribbles can tell us a lot about how they will progress in school.
The lesson to be learned from Aurukun is around the impact of out-sourcing education to commercial interests.
Reading is increasingly being reduced to a numbers game in schools.
So far the budget has given us more education gift cards to use in the stores of the federal government’s choosing - two more tests for children; one when they come into school and one when they leave.
For new teachers, as the end of first term nears, you may be feeling despair. But don’t leave - we need teachers like you. Here’s some advice on how to make the first year a little less turbulent.
Australia’s appalling record of equity in education has once again been confirmed in the latest Closing the Gap report. Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull announced the report’s dismal findings present an…
The political obsession with back to basics literacy is leaving schools behind. What is taught in school is becoming increasingly distant from what is required in the real world.
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