Category: News

  1. 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

  2. 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 […]

    clil.education.unimelb.edu.au/2023/12/06/integrating-indigenous-australian-knowledge-and-japanese-language-learning

  3. New Project: Investigating language teacher cognition on education for sustainability

    Dr Shu Ohki has been awarded a University of Melbourne Early Career Reseacher Grant to undertake a new project, Investigating Language Teacher Cognition on Education for Sustainability. This project aims to examine language teacher cognition—“what teachers know, believe, think, and do” (Borg, 2003, p. 81)—on education for sustainability, one of the cross-curriculum priorities in the Australian curriculum […]

    clil.education.unimelb.edu.au/2023/11/07/new-project-investigating-language-teacher-cognition-on-education-for-sustainability

  4. Confirmation Congratulations: Xiaoqing Chen

    Congratulations to Xiaoqing Chen, whose candidature was recently confirmed for her following PhD project: CLIL teachers’ practice of the “third C” and its relationship with their language-/content-dispositions “Cognition” is one of the four key dimensions that comprise of understanding of CLIL (alongside Communication, Content, and Culture), and existing research has extended our knowledge of cognition and […]

    clil.education.unimelb.edu.au/2023/11/07/confirmation-congratulations-xiaoqing-chen

  5. VicTESOL 2023 Symposium: Sustaining EAL Expertise

    The 2023 VicTESOL Symposium was held at the Victorian Academy of Teaching and Leadership in North Melbourne. With the theme of “Sustaining EAL expertise: Voices from research, leadership, and the classroom”, the day began with Prof Karen Johnson‘s (Penn State) keynote, Responsive Mediation and Shifting Novice L2 Teacher Instructional Stance — building on a Vygotskian […]

    clil.education.unimelb.edu.au/2023/10/15/victesol-2023-symposium-sustaining-eal-expertise

  6. New bilingual teaching opportunities in Italian – Positions at Footscray PS

    Footscray Primary School are looking for teachers to join their fabulous bilingual teaching team. 2024 2023 The positions are currently on Recruitment Online. Contact Jackie (jacqueline.robertson@education.vic.gov.au) if you would like to chat about the positions, join a tour, or drop in for a visit.

    clil.education.unimelb.edu.au/2023/08/16/new-bilingual-teaching-opportunities-in-italian-positions-at-footscray-ps

  7. New CLIL research project starting soon!

    CLIL emphasizes the importance of balancing both language and content in theory, but how does it play out in reality?! Through teacher interviews grounded in actual classroom practice, the CLIL Teacher Education Lab at the University of Melbourne has a new project to explore whether there is a tendency to emphasise either content and language […]

    clil.education.unimelb.edu.au/2023/07/20/new-clil-research-project-starting-soon

  8. Rescheduled … Public Seminar: Plurilingual Pedagogies in Australian Schooling (4–5.30pm, 23 August)

    Symposium 4–5pm, finger food and drinks 5–5.30pm Dynamic linguistic and cultural diversity characterises much of the educational landscape in the global north and south and is realised in many Australian schools and classrooms. The positioning of linguistic and cultural resources in relation to educational policies, curriculum, assessment, and pedagogy is therefore of critical importance. In […]

    clil.education.unimelb.edu.au/2023/07/20/public-seminar-plurilingual-pedagogies-in-australian-schooling-4-5-30pm-3-august

  9. New Publication – Social equity challenges for CLIL research

    Llinares, A. & Cross, R. (2022). New challenges for CLIL research. AILA Review, 35(2), 169–179. doi:10.1075/aila.00054.edi

    clil.education.unimelb.edu.au/2023/07/20/new-publication-social-equity-challenges-for-clil-research

  10. New Publication – Culture within CLIL

    Cross, R. (2022). Addressing social equity by making explicit the implicit value systems within content and language learning: A pedagogical framework for culture within CLIL. AILA Review, 35(2), 180–202. doi:10.1075/aila.22025.cro

    clil.education.unimelb.edu.au/2023/07/20/new-publication-culture-within-clil

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