Languages and Literacies Education Academic Group

‘It is AI-translated but not entirely … ’: beyond-the-human meshwork in multilingual academic literacy practices Authors: Melissa Jufenna Slamet, Jessica Gannaway, Julie Choi https://doi.org/10.1080/13670050.2025.2576062 (Open Access) Multilingual university students increasingly engage with digital technologies (e.g. AI-powered translation tool, note-taking app) as part of their academic literacy practices (ALPs). While some view these practices as problematic and potentially […]

by Julie Choi and Yvette Slaughter https://doi.org/10.21153/tesol2025vol34no2art2238 Digital technology has become essential for daily life, creating a complex challenge for adult migrants with limited or interrupted formal education who must simultaneously develop digital literacy, additional language, and basic literacy skills. This study examines how different groups of Students with Limited or Interrupted Formal Education (SLIFE) […]

By Rod Neilsen, Hossein Shokouhi Navigating TESOL is a comprehensive, research-based resource which serves as a practical guide for students of Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages (TESOL) for the duration of their master’s or certificate program. It also serves as a resource for university educators and language teachers who wish to know more about key aspects […]

The CLIL Teacher Education Lab within LALE welcomes you to the following featured seminar, that is part of its monthly Professional Learning Circle:  Assessing students in bilingual education: Implications for teacher assessment literacyProf Yuen Yi Lo, The University of Hong Kong, Universitas 21 Visiting Fellow There has been a global spread of bilingual education, particularly […]

What a fantastic Open Day this year! The energy was electric, and it was great fun meeting so many new people—some just beginning to explore their options, others already passionate about languages and literacies education—as well as current and past students who also came along! It’s always great seeing alumni! (And shout out to former […]

The CLIL Teacher Education Lab within LALE welcomes you to the following featured seminar, that is part of its monthly Professional Learning Circle:  Reconceptualizing Language Assessment through a Sociocultural Lens: A Research Trajectory from EFL to Bilingual ContextsA/Prof Yu-Ting Kao, National Cheng Kung University, Taiwan This presentation traces a research trajectory centered on language assessment through a sociocultural […]

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.