Melissa Slamet
ARTP Lab Website Coordinator
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Presenting at ALAA Conference in Darwin and IALIC in Auckland
This month has been an exciting time for sharing my research across two major conferences: Applied Linguistics Association of Australia (ALAA) in Darwin International Association for Languages and Intercultural Communication (IALIC) in Auckland Continue Reading Presenting at ALAA Conference in Darwin and IALIC in Aucklandblogs.unimelb.edu.au/art-pl/presenting-at-alaa-conference-in-darwin-and-ialic-in-auckland
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Connecting With What We Actually Have Rather Than What We’re Supposed to Have
Australian cities make translingual spaces easy to find, though we don’t always recognise them as pedagogically significant. Melbourne’s inner west operates as a multilingual contact zone where Vietnamese bakeries sit next to Greek grocers, where Somali and Macedonian blend on public transport. Sydney’s inner-city suburbs work similarly, where institutions like the Japan Foundation host events in spaces thick with linguistic diversity. This isn’t multiculturalism as policy celebration but the lived reality of urban Australia, where people routinely negotiate meaning across language boundaries. But as Canagarajah reminds us, these translingual spaces don’t simply exist by virtue of linguistic diversity. They have to be achieved through active negotiation and practice. These negotiated spaces matter for thinking about pedagogy because they show us what translingual practice actually looks like when people work to create conditions for communication across difference. Continue Reading Connecting With What We Actually Have Rather Than What We’re Supposed to Have -
Creating Cross-Cultural Connections: ARTP Scholars Secure Australia-Korea Foundation Grant for Innovative Children’s Book Project
We're absolutely thrilled to receive the 2025-2026 Australia-Korea Foundation grant, which was announced recently! This feels like such a significant moment - not just for the project itself, but for what it represents about cross-cultural storytelling and children's voices. Continue Reading Creating Cross-Cultural Connections: ARTP Scholars Secure Australia-Korea Foundation Grant for Innovative Children’s Book Project -
Creating Cultural Stories: The Kimchi Book Process
Join Julie Choi and Hana Kinoshita Thomson as they share their collaborative journey creating a kimchi picture book. This hands-on session explores creative approaches to developing culturally meaningful stories that resonate across communities. Continue Reading Creating Cultural Stories: The Kimchi Book Processblogs.unimelb.edu.au/art-pl/creating-cultural-stories-the-kimchi-book-process
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ARTP in Master of TESOL and Modern Languages Education – Faculty of Education Open Day 2025
At this year’s Faculty of Education Open Day at the University of Melbourne, we showcased how our Master of TESOL (MTESOL) and Master of Modern Languages Education (MMLE) courses are grounded in Arts-Rich Translanguaging Pedagogy (ARTP). Continue Reading ARTP in Master of TESOL and Modern Languages Education – Faculty of Education Open Day 2025 -
ARTP in VicTESOL Conference 2025: Celebrating Multilingual Creativity and Pedagogy
The ARTP Lab is excited to share highlights from our recent presentations and workshops, each exploring the power of language, culture, and creativity in education. From the artistry of contemporary picture books, to empowering EAL learners through CLIL pedagogy, to rethinking AI’s role in academic literacy practices, our researchers and collaborators showcased innovative approaches to multilingual teaching and learning. Continue Reading ARTP in VicTESOL Conference 2025: Celebrating Multilingual Creativity and Pedagogy -
Celebrating the Launch of Our ARTP Strand
After much anticipation and preparation, our ARTP strand has officially kicked off this week in TESOL-TIRF Research Symposium and it's off to a fantastic start! We're thrilled to report that 15 people have already viewed the lecture video, and 4 individuals have engaged in vibrant discussions. It's truly inspiring to witness the power of TESOL in uniting a global community. Continue Reading Celebrating the Launch of Our ARTP Strandblogs.unimelb.edu.au/art-pl/celebrating-the-launch-of-our-artp-strand
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Celebrating Our Achievement at the Awards Ceremony
We are thrilled to announce our Multilingual Education Teaching Team (A/Prof Julie Choi, Dr Elena Pirovano, Dr Elahe Shakshi Dastgahian, Dr Shu Ohki, Dr Tharanga Koralage, Melissa Slamet) has received the Faculty of Education Teaching Excellence and Innovation Award. This prestigious award is the culmination of a decade of dedication to developing the subject Multilingual Practices in Global Times, which is designed with Arts-Rich Translanguaging Pedagogies principles in mind. Year after year, student feedback has highlighted how transformative this subject has been, underscoring its impact on both personal and academic levels. Continue Reading Celebrating Our Achievement at the Awards Ceremonyblogs.unimelb.edu.au/art-pl/celebrating-our-achievement-at-the-awards-ceremony
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ARTP in Unimelb’s Assessment and GenAI Symposium
How is ARTP helping us rethink assessment and pedagogy in the era of GenAI in higher education? This was the guiding question behind Melissa's and Julie's recent presentation at the University of Melbourne's Assessment and GenAI Symposium on 3 June 2025, where Melissa shared part of my PhD project exploring how a multilingual university student in Australia engages with academic reading and writing using both digital tools and multilingual resources. Continue Reading ARTP in Unimelb’s Assessment and GenAI Symposiumblogs.unimelb.edu.au/art-pl/artp-in-unimelbs-assessment-and-genai-symposium
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AERA Conference i-Poster
The work on arts-rich translanguaging bookmaking with Vietnamese-Australian parents was presented in the AERA conference through the i-Poster platform. An article detailing the work will be published soon. Continue Reading AERA Conference i-Poster
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