Category: Teacher dispositions and agency across content and language integrated spaces for schooling
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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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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 […] -
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 […] -
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: 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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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
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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
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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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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 […]
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