About
Supporting Excellence in TESOL and Multicultural Education Across Victoria
VicTESOL is a professional association committed to promoting excellence in Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages and fostering and supporting cultural and linguistic diversity through high quality multicultural education. VicTESOL provides support and services to generalist, content, trade and EAL (ESL) specialist teachers across sectors including:
- Kindergartens
- Schools
- Adult & community education
- TAFE
- SEE
- AMEP
- ELICOS centres
- Universities
- Industry settings
VicTESOL aims to support teachers and students by developing and disseminating information that advances knowledge of what constitutes best-practice in education to students from culturally and linguistically diverse backgrounds.
VicTESOL constantly advocates on behalf of EAL students and their teachers and keeps members informed of state and national initiatives and issues as they emerge, according to the association’s prescribed policy.
VicTESOL hopes to contribute to the development of educational policy that impacts support for EAL students and teachers. The distinctive educational needs of these students can be overlooked by policy makers and VicTESOL members actively participate in consultative workshops convened by state and national authorities to ensure that these students are well represented.
VicTESOL supports research into issues and practices that influence the educational outcomes and/or language learning trajectories of ESL learners across all educational sectors.
VicTESOL Committee
At our AGM on Monday the 1st of December 2025, the following people were elected to VicTESOL Executive and Committee positions:
Executive Committee Members
Angela Di Sciascio
President
Vice-President
Rebekah Piper-Jones
Treasurer
Mollie Daphne
Secretary
Executive Committee Members
Manjit Bhamral
Committee Member
Simone Cassidy
Committee Member
Margaret Corrigan
Committee Member
Tabbassum Haidar
Committee Member
Committee Member
Dannie Wang
Committee Member
Affiliations
TESOL in Context
ACTA publishes, TESOL in Context, one of only two current Australian journals devoted to issues related to TESOL.
TESOL in Context is available at www.tesolincontext.org.au.
Past issues of the journal are now openly available.
- Volume 1 Issue 1 (1990) – Volume 26 Issue 1 (2017) are available on Informit.
- Volume 27 Issue 1 (2018) and onwards are available in the Archives and on Informit.
Submissions for articles for future issues are welcome, click here for more information.
Acknowledgements
Department of Education
VicTESOL would like to thank the Department of Education Strategic Partnerships Program for supporting VicTESOL.
VicTESOL would also like to acknowledge the generous support of the Victorian Department of Education through the Common Funding Agreement (CFA).