e.g. Tales of Two Cities, VCE literature guide, membership...
We welcome contributions from our members, including: articles (up to 2000 words), learning sequences connected to the Australian Curriculum: English, book reviews, interesting resources and news, podcasts, vodcasts, PPT, Prezi, and other online applications which relate to the theme of the issue. Idiom is produced primarily for the members of the Victorian Association for the Teaching of English. It is hoped that it will also appeal to our colleagues elsewhere and the broader education community. Idiom is not a peer-reviewed journal.
Contributions and editorial correspondence should be sent to the Managing Editor, Josephine Smith idiom@vate.org.au
Members are encouraged to follow the submission guidelines below.
The abstract should tell readers whether they want to look at your article in more detail when reading it in the journal.
It is your responsibility to seek copyright clearance for any materials quoted.
VATE retains copyright unless otherwise negotiated (the Publications and Communications Officer will email you to ask you whether or not you would like to retain copyright). If the author wishes to retain copyright then the onus is on her/him to register with CAL for any royalties; VATE takes no responsibility for ensuring that royalties it receives for Idiom articles are passed on to the author. Idiom is supplied to RMIT’s Informit e-Library which can be accessed online by arrangement with RMIT.
Author(s) who give permission for thier works to be reproduced elsewhere should inform the Editor of Idiom and should ensure tha the following statement appears with the article: Reproduced with permission, from Idiom the journal of the Victorian Association for the Teaching of English (VATE) [issue volume, number, date].
Kress, G & Van Leeuwen, T 2001, Multimodal discourse: The modes and media of contemporary communication, Arnold Publishers, London.
LeCompte, M & Schensul, J 1999, Designing and conducting ethnographic research, AltaMira, CA, Walnut Creek. Moll, L. C., Amanti, C., Neff, D & Gonzalez, N 1992, ‘Funds of knowledge for teaching: Using a qualitative approach to connecting homes and classrooms,’ Theory and Practice, vol. 31, no. 2, pp. 132–41.
Nixon, H., Beavis, C & Atkinson, S 2003, ‘Exploring identities and communities with adolescent game players and web users’, paper presented at the Joint conference of NZARE/AARE, New Zealand.
VATE receives review textbooks and other resources from publishers. This is a great way to trial resources with your class and gain feedback from your colleagues. You then get to share your review with all VATE members through the Idiom website. All our reviewers are invited to keep books reviewed with our compliments.
If you are interested in reviewing one of the resources listed below, please email Josephine Smith, Publications and Communications Officer, jsmith@vate.org.au for further information.
Reviews should be between 400 and 800 words long and be submitted to idiom@vate.org.au in Word format within two months of receiving the resource. We invite reviews of titles in a variety of formats (e.g. textbooks, novels, journals, picture books, audio-visual materials) and on a range of subjects. As Idiom is online, you are not limited to this format, and may want to submit your review as a podcast, Prezi, comicstrip, we’re open to suggestions.
Reviewers should identify the book’s title, author, publisher, year of publication, no. of pages and retail price. The reviewer should give a brief summary of the overall content and then focus on specific aspects, discussing the quality and usefulness of the content; where applicable, classroom application of the material should be stated. Reviewers are expected to comment on the strengths and limitations of the title while maintaining a respectful tone at all times. They should cite specific examples from the work and comment on the merits of the work as a whole. Contributors with close links to institutions or companies should avoid reviewing titles published by these bodies.