Programme authenticated
International research validates AVAILLL
The AVAILLL programme has been researched in eight studies over a period of six years and peer reviewed by independent analysis.
The first two quasi-experimental studies* led by the teacher/developer took place in the United States with fourteen-year-olds and included substantial subgroups of special education, ESL and minority students.
The raw data was taken to a peer review committee at New Zealand’s University of Canterbury — a country highly regarded in the field of literacy education. There, an independent peer review committee analysed the original quantitative and qualitative raw data. The committee not only confirmed the results of the previous research but proposed cooperative research on a larger scale in New Zealand.
AVAILLL research projects and analysis
Literacy Forum NZ
Does viewing movies with subtitles count as reading? Dr Ronnie Davey and Faye Parkhill. New Zealand Literacy Association. Dec 2015 ...download
Pacific-Asian Journal
The Hawke’s Bay Years 5 and 6 Study. Reading while viewing: the impact of movie subtitles as a strategy to raise
achievement in comprehension and vocabulary for Māori and Pasifika
students. 2014. ...downloadDarfield School study
“AVAILLL: Does it Avail itself for all teachers and all children in literacy?” Alan. M Fielding, 2014 ...download
A.L.E.A article
‘I used to read one page in two
minutes and now I am reading
ten’: Using popular film subtitles
to enhance literacy outcomes’. Parkhill and Davey, University of Canterbury, June 2014. ...downloadWesley College Y9 Report
Implementing AVAILLL at Wesley College. Colin Webster and Annie Sio Tima, 2012 ...download
English in Aotearoa study
Raising Adolescent Reading Achievement. Dr Ronnie Davey and Faye Parkhill. ...download
Practically Primary study
We Enjoyed It and We Learned at the Same Time! Faye Parkhill and Ronnie Davey 2010 ...download
University of Canterbury
Movie-based programme a boost for struggling readers’ literacy. Press release, University of Canterbury, 2008. ...download
Beeby Fellowship report
Literacy and Youth Offending. Parkhill and Davey, 2012. ...download