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The Last Issue of Literacy Link

Table of Contents - March 2009

• Visioning Alternatives: Strength-based practice, plasticity and potential in ALBE

• Adult numeracy provision and practice in England – a challenge bigger than the sum of its parts

• Call for papers now open for 2009 ACAL conference

• Bilingual Education in the Northern Territory: a brief summary of some issues

• A Reason to Go There

• The National Symposium on Assessing English as an Additional Language/Dialect in the Australian Context

• Financial Literacy for Female Prisoners – Report on a Pilot Project

• 2009 VALBEC conference

• COAG decision on adult literacy funding – a Commonwealth Government perspective

• Have a say!

• Letter to the editor

• Message from the President

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Table of Contents - June 2008

• Making Connections in the adult literacy and numeracy classroom

• Review: Making Connections: Adult literacy and numeracy practices

• Thinking beyond numbers: Learning numeracy for the future workplace

• Working from our strengths: Building bridges between learners’ literacies and identities

• What’s happening overseas?

• Health literacy report coming soon!

• Keep up to date with VET news

• All around Australia in 24 hours at the Reading Writing Hotline

• Surfing outside the flags: Catching waves, avoiding rips

• Literacy Live

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Table of Contents - April 2008

• Literacy beyond the classroom: ACAL’s approach to literacy as both lifelong and lifewide

• New Literacies in the New Workplace

• Adult Literacy and Life Skills Survey: Some New Zealand and Australian findings

• The Australian Core Skills Framework or ACSF

• ACAL Conference: Surfing, outside the flags: catching waves, avoiding rips

• Literacy skills underpin radio broadcasting

• Literacy Live professional development program

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Table of Contents - February 2008

• ALLS data – an aid for planning and improvement

• Adult literacy in Australia: Results from the 2006 Adult Literacy and Life Skills Survey

• Engaging with ALLS: troubling my starting points

• ALLS data is out there at last!

• The power of engagement

• Top of the Class: Indigenous radio trainee wins State award

• Literacy and the Federal Election

• Adult Literacy – a propeller

• Review: Having fun with maths: Activities and games for developing maths language and skills

• News from Victoria: VALBEC turns 30 in 2008

• Review: Straight to the Point CD

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2007

Table of Contents – December 2007

• Moving forward: ACAL and ALLS

• Let’s Get Real! Integrating LLN into Indigenous VET delivery

• “Why do so many adults have literacy problems?”

• Classroom management strategies to address the needs of Sudanese refugee learners

• Human Capital – the dominant paradigm we could do without?

• Applying the 3 Rs to training packages

• Update on the release of the Adult Literacy and Lifeskills Survey (ALLS)

• Training Packages @ Work

• The 2007 International Adult Literacy Conference

• Adult Learners Week ACT

• News from South Australia

• Literacy Live Professional Development Program

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Table of Contents – September 2007

• A false dichotomy: human and social capital outcomes from adult LLN courses

• Interactive Ochre – a new web-based resource

• The Learning for Living approach

• Technology in the workplace

• Adult Education as a Human Right

• Understanding Money Pays Off

• Why you should read Little Children are Sacred

• Adult Learners’ Week

• Read Series Two

• Stories that bears witness: the VALBEC History Project

• VALBEC conference report – Living Literacies

• Date for your Diary: 27 September - ACAL AGM

• Literacy Live Forums

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Table of Contents – July 2007

• The job of teaching adult literacy is getting more and more complex

• The Learning for Living project: New directions in training support for foundation learning

• Contradicting the stereotype: Case studies of success despite literacy difficulties

• ‘E-word’ being heard by teachers

• New and emerging technology and literacy

• Professional qualifications in New Zealand

• ALLS survey update: initial messages regarding numeracy

• International Adult Literacy Conference update

• WELL Resource: OH&S for plasterers made easy

• Resource: Literacy Face to Face

• Sweeping reforms in the VET sector – how will literacy fare?

• Literacy Live Forums

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Table of Contents – May 2007

• ACAL Response to the Community Education and National Reform Discussion Paper

• Integrating literacies: Using partnerships to build literacy capabilities in communities

• Respect is due ...

• Community Literacy at Manukau Institute of Technology – moving forward together

• Is this class right for me? Acknowledging and addressing feelings of identity among adult literacy students

• Do lower level courses produce lower outcomes?

• The Adult Literacy and Life Skills Survey: What’s happening in New Zealand

• Getting ready for ALLS to hit

• Re-Imagining Adult Literacy Policy for the Life-Course

• ACAL President invited to speak at UK Conference

• May Literacy Live Forum

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Table of Contents - March 2007

• The Union Movement and Literacy in New Zealand

• Foundation Learning Progressions for Listening, Speaking, Reading, Writing, and Numeracy

• Literacy support for Indigenous VET students

• Transforming Roles, Transforming Relationships

• The Literacy Gateway to Gaining and Maintaining Income Support

• Meet Michael Goghlan – the new Literacy Live facilitator

• Literacy and Numeracy Research Funding Slashed

• Airwaves improve literacy skills

• Literacy and Numeracy Minister’s Awards – nominations are now open

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Table of contents - January 2007

• ACAL Conference in New Zealand in 2007

• Adult literacy and numeracy research and briefings on the way

• Balance of Power: Commonwealth and States ownership of VET 4

• Meanings, Traditions and Contemporary Policy Discourse in Adult Literacy

• Being non-judgemental - what does this mean?

• Curriculum is everyone’s business: why don’t we have a national curriculum?

• Technology in literacy: media sharing

• A New Look for ACE?

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