Languages and Literacies Education Academic Group

Language Programming in Rural and Regional Victoria: Making Space for Local Viewpoints in Policy Development is now available via Open Access! The article offers a fresh perspective on language education policies in Australia by highlighting the unique challenges faced by rural and regional schools. Through Q methodology, the team uncovered the influential role of school […]

‘This book is a timely guide for educators looking for ways to open their schools to the multilingual world of the 2020s, challenging the arguments for monolingualism prevalent in English speaking countries. The authors of the different chapters are all deeply involved in the world of CLIL as researchers and teacher educators, and with their […]

Congratulations to the following LALE Graduate Researchers whose candidatures were recently confirmed: Exploring Chinese character teaching in Australian schools: What shapes Chinese language teachers’ pedagogical practice in teaching characters among young L2 learners? Xinning Mao (PhD) The teaching of Chinese as a second language is increasing exponentially, with larger cohorts of young learners studying the […]

LALE’s CLIL Teacher Education Lab welcomes you to the following seminar:  CLIL pedagogy on learning together in translanguaging contexts—developing bilingual CLIL materialsProf Shigeru Sasajima Time 3–4 pm Date 22 February 2024 Location L219, Level 2 Faculty of Education, The University of Melbourne, 100 Leicester Street, Carlton, or register to view online via Zoom  Professor Sasajima is […]

Symposium 4–5pm, finger food and drinks 5–5.30pm Dynamic linguistic and cultural diversity characterises much of the educational landscape in the global north and south and is realised in many Australian schools and classrooms. The positioning of linguistic and cultural resources in relation to educational policies, curriculum, assessment, and pedagogy is therefore of critical importance. In […]

Congratulations to the following LALE Graduate Researchers whose candidatures were recently confirmed: Exploring Chinese character teaching in Australian schools: What shapes Chinese language teachers’ pedagogical practice in teaching characters among young L2 learners? Xinning Mao (PhD) The teaching of Chinese as a second language is increasing exponentially, with larger cohorts of young learners studying the […]

Congratulations to LALE Graduate Researcher, Xiaoqing Chen, whose candidature was recently confirmed for her following PhD project: CLIL teachers’ practice of the “third C” and its relationship with their language-/content-dispositions “Cognition” is one of the four key dimensions that comprise of understanding of CLIL (alongside Communication, Content, and Culture), and existing research has extended our knowledge […]

The CLIL Teacher Education Lab seeks Graduate Researchers with an interest in the research themes below: For full details, including information on submitting an EOI, please visit the links above.