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 […]
Special issue of AILA Review 35:2 (2022) The 2022 special issue of AILA Review is now available, edited by Ana Llinares and Russell Cross. The collection addresses new challenges for CLIL research with respect to social equity, and includes contributions from:
‘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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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.
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