Australian Concise Oxford Dictionary New Words
The Australian Concise Oxford Dictionary provides an authoritative description of Australian and international English that is unrivalled by other concise dictionaries. This fifth edition has been thoroughly revised and updated, with hundreds of new words you won’t find in any other dictionary. It provides unmatched coverage of Australian English for a dictionary in this format.
Teaching Geography Through Numeracy and Literacy
In the crowded Primary curriculum it is often difficult to do justice to the study of Geography, a requirement of SOSE and Humanities courses in Australia. The study of Geography encourages an understanding and appreciation of natural and human environments. Geographers are not content to merely pass through a new landscape; they seek to understand the processes behind its creation and the ways in which it is changing. In exploring natural and human landscapes, a geographer relies strongly on visual literacy to make sense of the characteristics of the environment and the relationships between its features . To further explore environments, geographers rely on numeracy skills to measure, locate and describe environments. Geographic observation and measurement skills can provide the real-world examples to deeply imbed understanding of visual literacy and numeracy in the Primary classroom.
Sustainability: A powerful lesson for the Food Technology classroom
Sustainability is a hot topic in classrooms around Australia. In this extract from new Food Technology title Whole Food 1, chef Mark Jensen from Sydney’s renowned Vietnamese restaurant, Red Lantern, discusses the importance of sustainability in the food industry. Mark is passionate about bringing sustainability education to the food technology classroom.
OXFORD LITERACY LEVELS 15-23 RESOURCES
FREE classroom resources for Levels 15-23 are now available.
Handwriting in the 21st Century
Producing handwritten text to communicate meaning to others is a most complex skill to learn.
How to Get Your Media Release Noticed
Journalists are tough people. They are busy professionals who work long hours, often to incredibly tight deadlines, see the good and the bad parts of society, and have their personal and collective work published, broadcast or webcast literally to the whole world.
Thinking like a Lawyer
Contrary to other disciplines, in law there is no one right way and there is merit in arguing both sides, just for the sake of it
The Little Red Suitcase and Journeys
Increasing primary students’ knowledge and understanding of different cultures through sharing journeys promotes core values such as tolerance, empathy and respect.
Oxford Education Practicum Award
The arts are all about how we perceive the world through the senses, and sort into order and harmony the welter of stimuli from outside us and within us, to create meaningful reality.
Something big is happening in VELS science
By taking a big ideas approach in your science classroom, you will enhance students’ ability to make meaningful connection between the many discrete facts and skills the syllabus prescribes (e.g. microscopes, cell organelles, classification) and to connect them in a meaningful framework (e.g. living systems).
A Fresh Perspective on Legal Education
The first key to bringing a lecture alive is enthusiasm, letting the students see the passion that you have for the subject. The second factor is preparation. There is no substitute for rehearsing. All the important aspects of public speaking, including clarity, pace, eye contact, structure and empathy are directly relevant to lecturing.
AGTA 2008 Awards
Congratulations to author, Iain Hay, for winning an AGTA award.
Australian Learning & Teaching Council Citations
Australian Learning and Teaching Council Citations recognise and reward excellence in higher education teaching and practice.
Oxford Wordlist Plus Research Summary
Professor Joseph Lo Bianco and Ms Janet Scull from the University of Melbourne examine the data gathered through the
Oxford Wordlist research study.
Oxford Wordlist Interactive Tool
Use the
Oxford Wordlist interactive tool to discover the words most frequently used by and across the profile groups.
Welcome to The Successful Teacher
The Successful Teacher is an online site specifically created for primary school educators to provide access to professional support in their work with students in Australian schools.
Speaking our Language
For the first time ever the story of Australian English is told in full. As part of our Centenary celebrations Oxford Australia is proud to be publishing this significant contribution to the national landscape.
Defining Australian English
Oxford University Press has an unrivalled reputation for publishing dictionaries of authority and excellence throughout the English-speaking world. This long-standing commitment to the English language is reflected notably in the world’s most famous dictionary,
The Oxford English Dictionary.
Australian Word of the Year
In 2006 the Australian National Dictionary Centre chose the verb and noun podcast as its word of the year, acknowledging the fact that this international word had spread with extraordinary speed and ubiquity. For 2007...
Stunned Mullets & Two-pot Screamers
Wherever there is a ‘standard’ and a ‘colloquial’ way of saying the same thing — a choice between
Don’t try to impose on me and
Don’t come the raw prawn — the colloquial expression will typically be the more informal and the less respectful.
Centenary Fun Day
A staff 'fun day' was held on April 24 at the South Melbourne offices of Oxford University Press as part of the celebrations to mark the 100th consecutive year of publishing in Australia. The event was launched by Michael Danby, local Federal Member for Melbourne Ports.
Streamlining Processes
Oxford University Press is continually developing tools to support staff to ensure there is consistency in the information provided to our customers.
New Benchmarks Achieved
Between June and October 2007 ‘Project Phoenix’ was implemented. The Distribution Team made a commitment to rise from the ashes of an old and outdated system and offer our customers not only an improved service but a consistency of service all year round.
Improving academic writing skills
The most frequent 2,000 words in the English language account for around 75–80 percent of a textbook, depending on the level of technical vocabulary in the book. The
Academic Word List (AWL), developed by Averil Coxhead from Massey University in New Zealand accounts for a further 10% of the words in articles or textbooks.
The New Oxford Wordlist Plus
The Oxford Wordlist for Australian kids is the result of an extensive and rigorous research study conducted in Australian schools in 2007.
Teaching Composite Classes
The key to appreciating the benefits of composite classes is in understanding that growth is determined in stages and not by ages.
Using Maps with Young Children
Imagining how shapes may look from different angles is the key to understanding maps and mathematical spatial concepts.
Popular Media Images of Crime
The images that permeate popular consciousness of crime are mainly generated by, and reflected in, the electronic and print media.
Carrick Awards 2007
Oxford University Press congratulates all recipients of 2007 Awards and Citations, and in particular we celebrate the achievements of our authors.
Wellness and Recovery
A state of wellness is compatible with the presence of chronic disease and disability, depending on the perceptions of individuals and the ways in which health conditions are managed.
Teaching Indigenous Perspective
When teaching non-indigenous children about Indigenous people it is important to include Aboriginal perspectives across the curriculum to ensure that Aboriginal Australia becomes a constant reference point for students.
Introducing a New Partnership
It is the shared goal of Oxford University Press and the Fifteen Foundation to educate, inspire and empower youth through education.
Big Ideas Help Students Connect Learning
Research has revealed that students retain information better when it is connected to major ideas and themes.
Historical Literacy in the Classroom
Theoretically, by 2011, all school students in Australia will be taught history as a core part of the curriculum. Not ‘Australian History’, please note, but a more general and, as yet undefined, version.
Map Colours - Seeing is Not Always Believing
Oxford University Press in Australia is taking the atlas research on map colours in a new direction.
Literacy & Indigenous Kids
Oxford University Press has been working with The Fred Hollows Foundation and local Indigenous kids and teachers from around Australia to capture their stories and publish them.
Oxford's Australian centenary
