Category: Events
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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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Developing Critical Multilingual Language Awareness Through Language Becomings
At a recent webinar for the National Institute of Education Singapore's English Language & Literature Department, I discussed the crucial transition needed in Critical Multilingual Language Awareness (CMLA) from theoretical frameworks to evidence-based classroom practices. Drawing on insights from my teaching and research, including work from my PhD student Melissa Slamet, I explored how we can develop CMLA effectively in teacher education. The talk centered on addressing the gap identified by Van Gorp & De Costa - the need to move from theoretical understanding to concrete classroom strategies. Continue Reading Developing Critical Multilingual Language Awareness Through Language Becomings -
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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Faculty of Education Open Day 2024
Big thanks to our wonderful lecturers Chris, Hesaam, and Shu for joining today. Our very dedicated MTESOL student Billy also came to join us - it was great to be able to use all our mix of languages to introduce our courses to parents and prospective students. Continue Reading Faculty of Education Open Day 2024blogs.unimelb.edu.au/art-pl/faculty-of-education-open-day-2024
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Congratulations LALE and ARTP Team: Second Place for Poster Presentation at AILA 2024!
We are thrilled to announce that Ms. Melissa Slamet, A/Prof Julie Choi, Dr Tharanga Kalehe Pandi Koralage, and Dr Rafaela Cleeve Gerkens has won second place for their outstanding poster presentation at AILA 2024. Led by Melissa Slamet, the poster titled "Exploring Educators' Enactment of Plurilingualism in Language and Literacy Education" illustrates the various ways language and literacy educators can utilize their linguistic resources to enrich their teaching practices and better support their students. Continue Reading Congratulations LALE and ARTP Team: Second Place for Poster Presentation at AILA 2024! -
NAP Conference 2024
It has been some time since the EAL New Arrivals teachers in Victoria have been able to come together for their conference (were there really 500+ attendees?!). I really gained a sense of the solidarity and identity of these wonderful teachers who believe in their students' full potential to learn and succeed. Amazing keynote speakers by game-changing young people who themselves experienced English Language Schools when they first arrived in Australia. I personally felt very inspired! Continue Reading NAP Conference 2024 -
Presentations at International Association of Applied Linguistics (AILA) 2024 Conference
Although Rafaela and Julie were not able to attend AILA in person this year, thanks to Melissa’s organizational efforts, we managed to present our recorded AILA presentation without any glitches. Phew! Continue Reading Presentations at International Association of Applied Linguistics (AILA) 2024 Conference -
Guest Lecture: Literacy, Knowing & Learning
Big thanks to Dr Bonita Cabiles for inviting us (Raf & Julie) to give our guest lecture on 'Expanding meaning-making possibilities through arts-rich translanguaging pedagogy (ARTP). This is our first lecture to bring 'the Arts', 'Translanguaging' and 'Content and Language' pedagogies together and it's given us so much confidence that we need to do more of this bringing together of teaching approaches for language and literacy development. The students were wonderful and as you can see we all had a great time becoming 'energetic molecules'. Thank you students for your participation and your insightful questions! Continue Reading Guest Lecture: Literacy, Knowing & Learningblogs.unimelb.edu.au/art-pl/guest-lecture-literacy-knowing-learning
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