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Overview

One focus of first year study in the School of Education is for students to acquire literacy skills, including basic skills such as grammar, punctuation and spelling, and more advanced literacy skills such as academic writing, targeted reading, appropriate referencing and critical thinking. In line with this focus, literacy instruction is being integrated into the first year curriculum.

Major Case Themes

  • Academic literacy
  • First year students


Julie Porteus

Sharon Pittaway


School of Education
Faculty of Education

Julie.Porteus@utas.edu.au

Sharon.Pittaway@utas.edu.au

'When you have a broader view of what literacy is, there has be some kind of context in which they can learn .'