Category: News
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New publication – Comedy and masculine hegemony: Adapting masculinities in humorous children’s fiction
In his new article in Children’s Literature in Education, Troy Potter examines how humour and masculinity are not simply entwined in four comedic series targeted to male readers, but also how the represented masculine dynamics and role of comedy has adapted in response to our changing understanding of acceptable masculine behaviours. The article is open […] -
New Open Access Research Articles
Supporting students from linguistically diverse backgrounds during remote learning: A Q methodology studyStudents with English as an additional language (EAL) comprise approximately a third of the government school population in Australia’s second most populous state of Victoria. While the broad impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on teachers and students has been the focus of recent […]blogs.unimelb.edu.au/lale/2024/07/31/new-open-access-research-articles
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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 […] -
New Open Access Research Article: Multilingual authors ‘standing taller’ in arts-rich translanguaging spaces
Viewed through the monolingual English-only lens characteristic of many Australian schools, plurilingual students are often positioned as being in deficit 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. In the current […] -
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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