EDST2003 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Aust, Cognitive Load
MOHAMMED’S STORY
• Contexthe is from a Lebanese immigrant family, with Arabic and French influences at
home, in the past and in his previous schooling
• He has written a historical narrative about the first man to travel from NSW to Victoria
• What to consider:
o How is language helping Mohammed? o How has language hindered him?
• What are the influences behind his writing?
o Aai akgoud → ultue of oal stotellig, this leds itself to the oe
narrative structure of his response
o Refeees to holea, aels, 7 pouds → ediated his peious epeiees
of disease, currency and desert travel in Lebanon
o He does’t full udestad the oept of taellig to eploe/the epeiee of
oloisatio et. → I Leao, thee is no real history of import around
colonisation & he is not taught formally about historical exploration.
o Also, a reflection of immigration experience evident in reference to family, bringing
back things
o Caels → his udestadig of the deset ladscape and desert travel influencing
(Lebanon & Aust landscapes)
• What can he do?
o Wites a liea, histoial aatie oietatio, lia, esolutio → ot just a
recount
o There are specific, minute details e.g. attention to numbers, years, dates etc. o Uses a range of
connective and varied sentence structures
• What can be improved?
o He understands the necessity of quotation marks, but just uses the French ones
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