Creativity and collaboration: Teachers’ approaches to integrating oral skills in beginner-level adult EAL classrooms
2022 VicTESOL Symposium Creativity and collaboration: Teachers’ approaches to integrating oral skills in beginner-level adult EAL classrooms Skye Playsted (University of Queensland) Summary Syke Playstead (University of Queensland) offered a […]
Reframing Early Childhood educator professional learning needs in culturally and linguistically diverse early childhood contexts
2022 VicTESOL Symposium Reframing Early Childhood educator professional learning needs in culturally and linguistically diverse early childhood contexts Dr Yvette Slaughter (Melbourne Graduate School of Education), Dr Gary Bonar (Monash […]
Developing English through an understanding of how languages work
Developing English through an understanding of how languages work Summary On 17 November, presenters from Lexis Education showcased how they use a Systemic Functional Linguistics approach in their classrooms. Payal […]
Challenges and possibilities in using The Victorian Curriculum F-10: EAL in a Year 7 science unit: A focus on word knowledge.
Challenges and possibilities in using The Victorian Curriculum F-10: EAL in a Year 7 science unit: A focus on word knowledge. Summary Dr Anna Filipi, Dr Minh Hue Nguyen, Angie […]
ACTA 2022 Conference Wrap-up
ACTA 2022 Conference-Pushing the Boundaries 26 – 28 September Hilton Hotel, Brisbane, Queensland Over the course of 3 days and after two years of Covid related delays, people from across Australia came […]
Teaching Resource
Teaching Resource – Language Portraits Developed by Kimberley Smith, Blackburn English Language School, in collaboration with Julie Choi, Senior Lecturer in Education (Additional Languages) in the Melbourne Graduate School of […]
AMEP Virtual Roadshow – Resources for the EAL Framework
October 12 from 4:30 pm – 5:30 pm Summary At the recent AMEP Virtual Roadshow – Resources for the EAL Framework webinar, TESOL teachers from across the country zoomed in […]
Reflection on a career in EAL – Christine Finch in Conversation with Mark Melican
As the EAL Unit and VicTESOL say farewell and thank you to Christine Finch, Blackburn English Language School Principal Mark Melican took the opportunity to lead her through a series […]
NGV Resourcing Events 2022
NGV Resourcing Events Summary Two professional learning events for EAL teachers were held with a focus on works in the collection of the National Gallery of Victoria. These were on […]
EAL Framework 101 Session 3: Teaching a Unit (Adult sector)
Recording Summary EAL Framework 101 Session 3: Teaching a Unit (Adult sector) September 14 from 4:30 pm – 6:00 pm, Virtual Event On 14 September another successful EAL Framework 101 session was held with approximately […]