Description
Teachers working with students from diverse backgrounds and with high literacy needs can experience tension between quality English teaching and the pressure to narrow curriculum and pedagogy in response to high stakes testing regimes. This workshop showed how the use of 'Identity Texts' that draw on students own stories and performance based strategies can be used to enhance vocabulary, build student engagement and nurture links with community.| Period | 27 Oct 2017 |
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| Held at | Bankstown Girls High School, Australia |
| Degree of Recognition | Local |
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Activities
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Embracing home languages: fostering identity through translanguaging poetry pedagogy
Activity: Talk or presentation › Presentation
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Poetry, Literacy and confirming student identity
Activity: Talk or presentation › Presentation
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Confirming identity: Supporting students to tell and write their stories
Activity: Talk or presentation › Presentation
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Challenging the dominant culture by developing a creative pedagogy in subject English: Building students' cultural capital and linguistic and cultural resources
Activity: Talk or presentation › Presentation
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Without my language, I’m a broken tree’: Nurturing thirdspace translanguaging pedagogy in culturally diverse classrooms
Activity: Talk or presentation › Invited talk
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Research Outputs
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Tell me your story: confirming identity and engaging writers in the middle years
Research output: Book/Report › Book