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Corpus Linguistics and Education in AustraliaEdited by Alexandra I. García, Peter Crosthwaite and Monika Bednarek
[Australian Review of Applied Linguistics 43:2] 2020
► pp. 117–144
Ten years of print media coverage of NAPLAN
A corpus-assisted assessment
Nicole Mockler | The University of Sydney
The National Assessment Program – Literacy and Numeracy (NAPLAN) has been a key tenet of Australian education
policy since its launch over a decade ago. Print media coverage of NAPLAN and myschool.edu.au, which displays and compares NAPLAN results across Australia, has
played a role in both reporting and shaping this aspect of education policy. This paper uses a corpus-assisted approach to map
print media representations of NAPLAN over the first decade of the Program, from 2008 to 2018. Building on previous work on NAPLAN
and the print media (Mockler, 2013, 2016),
it draws on a corpus of almost 6,000 articles from the Australian national and capital city daily newspapers published between 2008
and 2018. It charts the discursive shifts that have taken place over this period as NAPLAN has transitioned in the public space
from a diagnostic tool seen to be useful to educators, to a comparative tool seen to be useful to parents and the general public,
and more recently to a contested tool seen to have narrow or limited utility.
Keywords: NAPLAN, corpus-assisted analysis, discourse analysis
Published online: 03 July 2020
https://doi.org/10.1075/aral.19047.moc
https://doi.org/10.1075/aral.19047.moc
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