Free Seminar: “Assessing students in bilingual education: Implications for teacher assessment literacy” (Prof Yuen Yi Lo, 4pm 13 Nov)
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 literacy
Prof Yuen Yi Lo, The University of Hong Kong, Universitas 21 Visiting Fellow
There has been a global spread of bilingual education, particularly in the form of English Medium Instruction (EMI) and Content and Language Integrated Learning (CLIL), at different education levels. It is assumed that students on these programs can learn content knowledge and the target foreign language (very often English) simultaneously. However, the challenges encountered by both teachers and students have been well documented.
In this talk, Professor Yuen Yi Lo will focus on the challenges faced by teachers and students in assessments, which have been under-explored in EMI/CLIL research. She will first illustrate the cognitive, linguistic and multimodal demands imposed by assessment questions on EMI/CLIL students. Professor Lo will then highlight the importance of teachers’ assessment literacy in designing valid assessments for bilingual students and share an inventory for capturing EMI/CLIL teachers’ assessment literacy. This inventory can be used as a diagnostic tool for teachers’ professional development and further research on EMI/CLIL assessments.
While the research context of this talk is EMI/CLIL, the findings have implications for English as an Additional Language (EAL) learners in other educational contexts.
Details
| When: | 4–5pm, Thursday 13 November, 2025 |
| Location: | Oncampus: Faculty of Education, Level 9 Conference Room (L915), 100 Leicester Street, Carlton Victoria 3053 Online: via Zoom |
| RSVP: | Please click here to register for on campus, or to request a link for online via Zoom |
Professor Yuen Yi Lo is an Associate Professor at the Language and Literacy Education (LALE) Unit of the Faculty of Education, The University of Hong Kong. She is also the Associate Dean (Learning and Teaching) of the Faculty.
Professor Lo’s research interests include bilingual education, Medium of Instruction policy, professional development of teachers in Content and Language Integrated Learning (CLIL) and issues related to CLIL assessment. Her research has been published in Review of Educational Research, International Journal of Bilingual Education and Bilingualism, Language Teaching Research and Teaching and Teacher Education, and collated in her book Professional Development of CLIL Teachers. She is the Co-Editor-in-Chief of International Review of Applied Linguistics in Language Teaching, and a General Editor of Journal of Immersion and Content-based Language Education.
Professor Lo is a visiting scholar at The University of Melbourne within LALE’s CLIL Teacher Education Lab, on a U21 Fellowship.