Cirrus@Austlit

Len Unsworth is a Professor in English and Literacies Education and the Director of the Centre for Research in English and Multiliteracies at the University of New England. He is also the Editor of Australian Journal of Language and Literacy. His research interests include literacy education from pre-school to matriculation; children's and adolescents' literature and literacy development; e-literature for children and adolescents; information and communication technology and literacies; multiliteracies; visual literacies; critical social literacies; language and literacy in curriculum area learning and teaching; systemic Functional Linguistics in literary and literacy research and education; functional grammar in the school curriculum; genre theory; and the semiosis of explanation in education.