Xiaoqing Chen
Hi, I’m Xiaoqing, doing my PhD study at FoE, the University of Melbourne. My study aims to explore how teachers' dispositions may shape their practices of approaching Content and Language Integrated Learning (CLIL), especially how this feature of teacher subjects influences their patterns of cultivating learner's cognition. I look forward to gaining inspiring insights from the broader research community in the fields of CLIL, TESOL, and teachers’ professional development.
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Highlights of Lab Members’ Presentations at World CLIL 2025
Members of the Lab—Shu Ohki, Xiaoqing Chen, and Russell Cross—recently shared updates of their current research at the World CLIL conference 2025. Shu Ohki shared findings from a study of newly arrived EAL students in Melbourne, demonstrating how CLIL’s 4Cs Framework and Language Triptych can help teachers mobilise learners’ cultural and linguistic resources. His work […]clil.education.unimelb.edu.au/2025/07/03/highlights-of-lab-members-presentations-at-world-clil-2025
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J-CLIL Visit 2024
The Lab was pleased to host a three-day event with J-CLIL visit scholars from Japan on 21–23 August, 2024. The first day comprised a series of discussions and hands-on workshops. In the morning, Yvette Slaughter gave the Japanese scholars an overview of language development in Australia and Victoria. Her presentation showed Australia’s rich linguistic diversity and […] -
AILA 2024 World Congress: Language Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and Sustainability (11-16 August)
The AILA 60th Anniversary World Congress will be held on 11-16 August 2024 at Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. Our Lab members will give a series of presentations based on our current projects, with the common theme being a sociocultural perspective on how teachers enact agency in their CLIL teaching, and the influence of dispositions on that […] -
Teaching Thinking in Victorian Language Classrooms: Research project starts soon!
How do you support students’ thinking when they learn through another language? Developing students’ thinking is a crucial part of teaching. This aspect is rather complex when we use other languages to teach, such as teaching Maths in Japanese. By observing classroom teaching and interviewing teachers about their lessons, this project wants to know “how […] -
Welcome to our new Graduate Researcher: Xiaoqing Chen
Hi, I’m Xiaoqing Chen, a PhD student studying at MGSE, University of Melbourne. I’m very glad to join our CLIL lab with this warm family. My past experiences are all about education and specifically language teaching. I did my Bachelor’s in English Teaching in my hometown China, and an MSc in TESOL in Edinburgh, United […]clil.education.unimelb.edu.au/2023/02/09/welcome-to-our-new-graduate-researcher-xiaoqing-chen
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New Project: Language vs. Content Dispositional Orientations to CLIL in Practice
This year the CLIL Teacher Education Lab will commence a new MGSE Seed Funded Project: Language vs. Content Dispositional Orientation to Content and Language Integrated Learning (CLIL) in Practice. This project builds on the ARC Discovery Project Social justice dispositions informing teachers’ pedagogy in advantaged and disadvantaged secondary schools (Gale, Cross, & Mills) that uses […]