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.
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 […]
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 […]
Llinares, A. & Cross, R. (2022). New challenges for CLIL research. AILA Review, 35(2), 169–179. doi:10.1075/aila.00054.edi
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
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:
The Lab was pleased to host a recent study visit seminar by Prof Mayumi Takizawa, on 27 April, 2023. Mayumi is an active member of J-CLIL and CLIL-ite, and a current candidate for teacher accreditation with these organizations. For over a decade, she mainly taught English for Tourism at Tokai University and English Education for […]
Part of the Learning through Languages UK and the Aston Centre for Applied Linguistics “CLIL Mondays” online seminar series. Working with the “4th C”: Where and how might culture fit in CLIL contexts?Russell Cross (Melbourne Graduate School of Education) This talk explores what might be particular about ‘culture’ when understood in the context of CLIL, […]
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. […]
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