Category: Graduate Research
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Integrating Language and Content across the Victorian Curriculum: Research project starts soon!
How do you integrate language and content across the Victorian Curriculum? Integrating language with other curriculum areas is crucial for CLIL, but when the curriculum assumes language and content to be separate learning areas this can be complex. This project aims to understand “how do teachers navigate the curriculum to make various approaches to languages […] -
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 […] -
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 […] -
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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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
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Welcome to our new Graduate Researcher: Kristofer Sapoetra
Kristofer is a DEd candidate and Additional Languages (Bahasa Indonesia) teacher in Victorian primary schools. As an in-service teacher, Kristofer is passionate about exploring practical languages teaching approaches that foster inclusivity and engagement between teachers and learners. His experience includes integrating Visual Arts and Languages curriculums through the Content and Language Integrated Learning (CLIL) approach. […]clil.education.unimelb.edu.au/2023/02/14/welcome-to-our-new-graduate-researcher-kristofer-sapoetra
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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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Welcome to our new Graduate Researcher: Vincent Liang
The Lab welcomes Vincent Liang to the team as a new Graduate Researcher! Vincent’s PhD project aims to investigate how schooling conditions influence the practicality of the Content and Language Integrated Learning (CLIL) pedagogy through the investigation of teacher agency in Victorian school context. The project advances the our research in Teacher Dispositions and Agency […]clil.education.unimelb.edu.au/2023/02/09/welcome-to-our-new-graduate-researcher-vincent-liang
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PhD Scholarship in CLIL – Applications due 20 October
The Melbourne Graduate School of Education seeks expressions of interest from eligible graduates for a PhD in Content and Language Integrated Learning (CLIL). This scholarship invites PhD proposals that will investigate teachers’ practice to generate knowledge of how conditions for schooling inform the translation of theory that underpins CLIL pedagogy to practice. There is scope […]clil.education.unimelb.edu.au/2022/09/09/phd-scholarship-in-clil-applications-due-20-october