ABSTRACT In her 2024 paper Are Australian students' academic skills declining? Interrogating 25 years of national and international standardised assessment data, Larsen compiled an impressive summary of major international (PISA, PIRLS and TIMSS) and national (NAPLAN) standardised assessments pertaining to literacy and numeracy.
Pamela C. Snow +9 more
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A scoping review of EFL learners' interlanguage pragmatic development. [PDF]
Li H, Kasim ZM, Ang LH.
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On the Prospects for African Philosophy in Australia
ABSTRACT This paper grapples with the situation of people of African descent in Australia by working through the constitution of the body of academic philosophy in the country. It contends with the parochialism of the Australian philosophical community and the prospects for the cultivation of greater pluralism. Taking African philosophy as one possible
Bryan Mukandi
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The Impact of AI-Assisted Learning on the Agency of Foreign Language Learners: A Meta-Analysis. [PDF]
Zai F, Zhou X.
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ABSTRACT This paper applies Critical Race Theory (CRT) to explore how whiteness operates within Australia's anti‐racism movement as a structuring force that shapes discourse, practice and policy. Despite the anti‐racism movement offering crucial spaces for resistance and reform, it remains entangled in Australia's settler‐colonial present and systemic ...
Franka Vaughan, Aish Ravi
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The impact of generative AI on foreign language enjoyment: the roles of gender, English proficiency and usage duration among Chinese EFL learners. [PDF]
Yin X, Ruan J, Ma W.
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Confessions of a Poverty Researcher: My Journey Through the Foothills of Scholarship
ABSTRACT This paper describes the key events, experiences and ideas that influenced the author's career as a poverty researcher. He describes how his early disillusion with economics was replaced by a spark of interest in social issues and how his migration from the UK to Australia in the mid‐1970s provided the impetus to begin what became a lifetime ...
Peter Saunders
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Generative AI an academic equalizer? The differential impact of AI-assisted learning on self-efficacy and intrinsic motivation among university students. [PDF]
Shao H, Wang R.
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The Politics of Framing the Student Problem: Inquiries Into Australian Civics Education, 2006–2024
ABSTRACT Recurring debates about civics, the kinds of history that should, and should not, be taught in school, and ‘standards debates’ about the ‘basics’ typically follow on the heels of recurring moral panics about the ‘declining’ state of ‘our’ education system.
Patrick O'Keeffe +2 more
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Variable co-adaptation: exploring the emergence of teacher-student interaction patterns in award-winning EFL classes through the CDST lens. [PDF]
Chen B, Zhang W, Xie Y.
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