CDU Researcher Profile

Manager, Resources and

Professional Development for the

National Accelerated

Literacy Program (NALP)

wendy.cowey@cdu.edu.au

11 Lyttleton Cresent

Cook

ACT 2614

• Research interests
• Publications
• Current projects
• Recent completions supervised

Research Interests

I am currently engaged in study for my doctorate at University of Canberra which involves investigating the teaching strategies employed by the Accelerated Literacy program and the problems teachers have teaching the program. I am also involved in research into how Accelerated Literacy can be used in adult literacy education.

Recent Publications

• Cowey, W. "Reading Recovery and the classroom teacher", CDC Magazine, Curriculum Development Corporation, Canberra. 1986.
• Cowey, W School Review in Central Canberra, ACT Principal, Canberra, 1990.
• Clough, M, McIntyre, J. and Cowey, W. The Canberra Word Test, Schools and Community Centre, University of Canberra, 1990.
• Gray, B., & Cowey, W. "Some Reflections on the Literacy Development of Children at Amata School: 1998-2000", in National Year Book on Research in Education for 2001, Canberra: DEETYA.
• Rose, D., Gray, B, Cowey, W. "Scaffolding Reading and Writing for Indigenous Children in School", in P. Wignell (ed.) Double Power: English literacy and Indigenous education. Melbourne: NLLIA, 1999, 23-60
• Rose, D., Gray, B, Cowey, W. "Providing access to academic-literate discourses for Indigenous learners" (with B. Gray & W. Cowey), in Ngoonjook: a journal of Australian Indigenous issues. December 1998, 62-70
• Cowey, W. 2005, "A Brief Description of the National Accelerated Literacy Program", TESOL in Context, 15 (2): 3-14

Current Projects

National Accelerated Literacy Program (NALP)

The National Accelerated Literacy Program (NALP) is a nationally funded program designed to improve the literacy standards of students who are currently failing to read at a level deemed appropriate for their age. The Accelerated Literacy (AL) approach provides teachers with a number of steps that make students familiar with the context and purpose of written discourse, and has been successful in remote and Indigenous communities because it targets children with limited literary experience in the home.

Read more about the National Accelerated Literacy Program (NALP) at CDU

Recent Completions Supervised