Russell Cross
Associate Dean (Research)
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World CLIL 2025 June 13-14, 2025, Ireland—Call for papers (2 Dec, 2024)!
https://www.worldclil.com/ On June 13-14, 2025, Maynooth University, Post-Primary Languages Ireland, and Queen’s University Belfast are hosting World CLIL 2025 in Ireland, providing a platform for academic and practitioner exchange, collaboration, and the dissemination of innovative research and practice under the theme: CLIL Connects: The Role of CLIL Across Subject Disciplines, Supporting and Developing Pluriliteracies, Plurilingual […] -
CLIL @ 2024 Intensive Chinese Network (ICN) Workshop
Russell Cross and Kris Sapetora both recently spoke the 2024 Intensive Chinese Network (ICN) Workshop, featuring work being done within the Lab on CLIL. Russell’s keynote focused on the new insights gained from the recent research on CLIL teacher dispositions, and its impact when there’s an emphasis on either content or language in actual practice. […]clil.education.unimelb.edu.au/2024/09/03/clil-2024-intensive-chinese-network-icn-workshop
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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)
The 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. […] -
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 […] -
“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 […] -
Graduation Congratulations: Celine Fompudie
Congratulations to Celine Fompudie for the recent completion of her Masters by Research, and her thesis Fostering Students’ Dialogic Imagination: The Potential of CLIL to Promote Cosmopolitan Learning: In the context of global connections, there has been a widespread recognition of the potential of language learning to promote intercultural skills. However, current language teaching practices […]clil.education.unimelb.edu.au/2024/02/14/graduation-congratulations-celine-fompudie
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Confirmation Congratulations: Vincent Liang
Congratulations to Jian Liang (Vincent), whose candidature was recently confirmed for his following PhD project: Using cultural-historical activity theory to investigate teacher agency in content and language integrated classrooms Content and Language Integrated Learning, or CLIL, involves learning a new language alongside new content from other non-language areas of the curriculum. However, despite a significant […] -
Seminar: CLIL pedagogy, translanguaging, and materials (Prof Shigeru Sasajima, 3pm 22 Feb 2024)
The 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 […] -
Confirmation Congratulations: Kristofer Sapoetra
Congratulations to Kristofer Sapoetra, whose candidature was recently confirmed for his following EdD project: The Role of Mediation in S-STTEP: A VSCT Approach to Self-Directed Growth Mediation as a Vygotskian sociocultural concept in Second Language Teacher Education (SLTE) is often performed based on human-to-human interaction. However, as suggested by van Lier in 1996, development can also […]clil.education.unimelb.edu.au/2023/12/07/confirmation-congratulations-kristofer-sapoetra
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Integrating Indigenous Australian Knowledge and Japanese Language Learning
We are pleased to announce Integrating Indigenous Australian Knowledge and Japanese Language Learning is now available. It is an initiative of the CLIL Teacher Education Lab, inspired by the work of the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander School Curricula project, and sponsored by the Australia-Japan Foundation. These resources aim to support teachers of Japanese to work with Content and […]
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