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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
The CLIL Teacher Education Lab will commence a new project funded by the Australia-Japan Foundation (AJF): Integrating Indigenous Australian Knowledge and Japanese Language Learning. The project will develop knowledge of how language teachers can use Content and Language Integrated Learning to work more confidently with bringing Australian Indigenous knowledge and culture into school-based Japanese language […]
2022 Australian Council of TESOL Associations International Conference — Pushing The Boundaries in TESOL — features presentations by our Lab members Russell Cross and Yvette Slaughter. The program also features MGSE colleague, Bonita Cabiles, winner of Penny McKay Award for her thesis, Participation and cultural and linguistic diversity: An in-depth qualitative inquiry of an Australian primary […]
Macquarie University’s EMI Centre first global symposium aims to support educators through their EMI journey by providing an opportunity for them to engage with EMI experts, as well as connect to other policy makers & practitioners on the same journey. The two-day event will provide informative presentations and workshops targeted at supporting both policy makers […]
This invited symposium brings together international perspectives on CLIL with contributions from Australia, England, Finland and Wales to explore how CLIL teacher education is shaped by different educational contexts and to address the questions: How have teacher educators responded to challenges that have come from the field as CLIL has been introduced more widely? How […]
This conference welcomes researchers, teachers and trainee teachers, teacher educators and policy makers interested in drawing on CLIL and pluriliteracies pedagogies to design learning for diverse learners in bilingual contexts such as CLIL, EAL, immersion, ESP, TESOL, dual or heritage language programmes, in order to increase motivation, confidence, attainment and intercultural awareness. Date: From Friday […]
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 […]