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Upcoming Events from the CLIL Teacher Education Lab!
We are excited to annouce some upcoming events hosted by LALE’s CLIL Teacher Education Lab. These events are great opportunities for educators, researchers, and anyone interested in Content and Language Integrated Learning (CLIL) to engage, learn, and collaborate. Introducing the CLIL Professional Learning Circles: A New Monthly Series for 2025! Starting in February 2025, the […]blogs.unimelb.edu.au/lale/2025/01/21/upcoming-events-from-the-clil-teacher-education-lab
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Seminar: “Nah she’s a good gardia”: My accidental journey into Indigenous educational research and what I’ve learnt along the way. (Prof Rhonda Oliver, 10am 5 Sept 2024)
LALE’s CLIL Teacher Education Lab welcomes you to the following seminar: “Nah she’s a good gardia”: My accidental journey into Indigenous educational research and what I’ve learnt along the way.Prof Rhonda Oliver In this presentation I will outline some of the studies I have undertaken in the last two decades within the Indigenous education area. I will […] -
New CLIL research projects starting soon: Call for participants!
The CLIL Teacher Education Lab within LALE is commencing two new projects focused on better understanding how teachers approach CLIL in real-life practice. The Lab is keen to work with teachers to gain their insights to understand these challenges! Click the links above to find out more, and ways you can join the Lab to be part of either project.blogs.unimelb.edu.au/lale/2024/07/19/new-clil-research-projects-starting-soon-call-for-participants
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New Open Access Research Article: Content and language integrated pedagogy and language learning motivation in a socioeconomically marginalized school context
Within school contexts that are socioeconomically marginalized, complex factors often lead to languages learning being devalued in ways which adversely impact students’ potential, particularly their motivation to learn an additional language (L2). This paper examines the role of Content and Language Integrated Learning (CLIL) in shaping students’ L2 learning motivation within a school setting that […] -
Translating masculinity and humour: From Australian English to Chinese
Dr Troy Potter and our LALE PhD student, Vincent Liang, recently presented “Translating masculinity and humour: Chinese Translations of Australian comedic texts” at the Symposium on Australian Children’s Literature: Translation, Publication, and Reception this past Saturday. Their presentation examined the worldwide appeal of Australian children’s book series that have enjoyed international success, and how elements of humour […] -
Congratulations LALE: Faculty of Education Teaching Excellence Awards 2024
Congratulations to Associate Professor Yvette Slaughter, Associate Professor Julie Choi, and Dr Shu Ohki who recently won a Faculty of Education Staff Award for Teaching Excellence and Innovation for their teaching initiative, Embedding Plurilingual Perspectives in Languages and Literacies Education. Plurilingual pedagogies seek to acknowledge the linguistic and cultural diversity of learners, and the role […] -
New Open Access title: Language Programming in Rural and Regional Victoria
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 […] -
“Curriculum integrated language teaching: CLIL in practice”: Now in paperback
‘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 […] -
Confirmation Congratulations to our Graduate Researchers
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 […]blogs.unimelb.edu.au/lale/2024/02/16/confirmation-congratulations-to-our-graduate-researchers
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Seminar: CLIL pedagogy, translanguaging, and materials (Prof Shigeru Sasajima, 3pm 22 Feb 2024)
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 […]
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