Melissa Slamet
ARTP Lab Website Coordinator
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Welcome to ‘ARTP in Action’ channel
We’re very excited to present our ARTP work through our YouTube Channel ‘ARTP in Action’. Our first interview series explores Dr Julie Choi’s ‘Kimchi is for Everyone’ picture book which illuminates concepts of multilingual literacy, translanguaging, and cultural identity. Continue Reading Welcome to ‘ARTP in Action’ channelblogs.unimelb.edu.au/art-pl/welcome-to-artp-in-action-channel
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Faculty of Education Graduation Ceremony
Congratulations to our 2025 MTESOL graduates! It was wonderful to share this great day with our students, many of whom I got to know through the research subject investigating translanguaging. I can’t wait to hear all about where life takes them next. Continue Reading Faculty of Education Graduation Ceremonyblogs.unimelb.edu.au/art-pl/faculty-of-education-graduation-ceremony
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The National Council of Teachers of English Conference 2024
It wasn’t an easy trek to Boston to join the NCTE conference but it was well worth it as learned so much from the amazing sessions and the many talks held in exhibition hall that we could bring back to our work in Australia. Topics on translanguaging, picture books, writing pedagogies, AI - my goodness, I felt like it was a conference made specifically for me and I was in translingual picture book heaven! Attending as many sessions as humanly possible, I’ve come back really inspired to think more about Critical Literacy. Continue Reading The National Council of Teachers of English Conference 2024blogs.unimelb.edu.au/art-pl/the-national-council-of-teachers-of-english-conference-2024
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Kimchi’s book launch at ViệtSpeak’s Language in Community Festival
Thanks to all Unimelb past and present students and colleagues for joining us at the Language in Community Festival on 7 Dec 2024! Continue Reading Kimchi’s book launch at ViệtSpeak’s Language in Community Festivalblogs.unimelb.edu.au/art-pl/kimchis-book-launch-at-vietspeaks-language-in-community-festival
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Award for Excellence in Place-based Initiatives
We are deeply thrilled and humbled to receive the 2024 University of Melbourne Excellence Award in the Place-based Initiatives category. Bringing together everything we value and cherish - the arts, translanguaging, picture books, and literacy - through our work brings us such profound joy and fulfillment. Thank you to communities, artists, teachers, students, colleagues, and the university for all your ongoing support! Continue Reading Award for Excellence in Place-based Initiativesblogs.unimelb.edu.au/art-pl/award-for-excellence-in-place-based-initiatives
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Multilingual Authors “Standing Taller” in Multimodal Translanguaging Spaces: Developing Writerly Identities through Arts-rich Translanguaging Pedagogies
In many schools around the world, plurilingual students are positioned through a deficit lens as language and literacy learners and struggle to find their way into a writer’s identity. The importance of creating a translanguaging space to support plurilingual learners is well established in the literature (Durán & Palmer, 2014; Espinosa et al., 2021; García et al., 2017). Schools have much to learn from community organizations and initiatives that create space for learners to bring their full meaning making repertoires to bear. Working from this viewpoint, we will explore a case study of an arts-rich bookmaking experience in and out-of-school settings demonstrating how it opens up multiple entry points into resourceful multilingual writerly identities. Continue Reading Multilingual Authors “Standing Taller” in Multimodal Translanguaging Spaces: Developing Writerly Identities through Arts-rich Translanguaging Pedagogies -
Invitation to Share our Collaborative Translanguaging Community of Practice (TCoP) Work with the Diversity & Inclusion Committee
Melissa has been invited to a Faculty of Education Diversity and Inclusion meeting to share her experiences in forming a Translanguaging Community of Practice (TCoP). The invitation was extended by the chair of the Diversity and Inclusion Committee who has expressed a keen interest in learning more about our innovative collaborations and the insights we've gained through this process. Continue Reading Invitation to Share our Collaborative Translanguaging Community of Practice (TCoP) Work with the Diversity & Inclusion Committee -
Grace’s Confirmation Seminar on Bilingual Education in Samoa
Congratulations to Grace Manuleleua on her great success last week at the confirmation seminar. On a rainy and dreary Melbourne afternoon, Grace lit up the room with her beautiful Samoan dress and shared with us the incredible work she has been doing on her study over the last 8 months to pass this milestone. Continue Reading Grace’s Confirmation Seminar on Bilingual Education in Samoablogs.unimelb.edu.au/art-pl/graces-confirmation-seminar-on-bilingual-education-in-samoa
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EdSAC Town Hall
On 30 July 2024, members of EdSAC organized a successful Town Hall event where students were able to ask questions directly to the Dean, academic, and professional staff. As the Academic Co-Lead of the EdSAC, Julie spoke about ‘translanguaging’ and how FoE embraces such strengths-based approaches that recognize students’ full ‘funds of knowledge’ and identity and encourage multilingual students to use their whole funds of knowledge so that we can create more diverse and inclusive opportunities for learning together. Continue Reading EdSAC Town Hall -
Translanguaging Communities, Language in Community Festival
Is fluency a prerequisite for passing on heritage languages to future generations? In the Translanguaging Communities workshop, Associate Professor Julie Choi and Jodie Whitehurst addressed this misconception and discussed how translanguaging can aid in maintaining heritage languages both at home and within the community. A/Prof Julie Choi began the session with a brief presentation on translanguaging, which was followed by interactive activities conducted by Drama in Education expert Jodie Whitehurst. Continue Reading Translanguaging Communities, Language in Community Festival
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