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SUMMARY:Persuasive Writing for EAL Learners: A Functional Grammar Approach
DESCRIPTION:Persuasive Writing for EAL Learners: A Functional Grammar Approach\n6 November 2025. 5:30pm – 6:30pm AEDT\, Online\nPersuasive writing can be particularly challenging for students learning English as an additional language. This session introduces teachers to functional grammar as a powerful tool to support all learners in producing effective persuasive texts. \nRather than focusing on grammar rules in isolation\, functional grammar focuses on using language to achieve meaning in context. Anchored in the Teaching and Learning Cycle\, the session will explore how to build language skills systematically\, connect teaching to the EAL curriculum\, and scaffold students from model texts to independent writing. \nParticipants will leave with practical classroom-ready strategies and resources to help students write persuasive texts with greater clarity\, coherence and purpose. While designed for teachers of Years 3–6\, the session will also be valuable for those working with lower secondary students. \nSpeakers\nRebekah Piper Jones is an experienced EAL educator and the Primary Curriculum Coordinator at Blackburn English Language School. She holds a Bachelor of Education (Primary) from the University of New England and a Master’s in TESL/TEFL from the University of Birmingham. With over 20 years of experience\, she has taught English to both school-aged and adult learners across Australia\, Japan\, and Guatemala. \nRebekah is a trained tutor of How Language Works\, a functional linguistics course developed by Lexis Education\, which she has delivered regularly to staff in the New Arrivals Program as well as to mainstream teachers. She has worked closely with Emeritus Professor Beverly Derewianka and VicTESOL on the Teaching and Learning Cycle project and has collaborated with organisations such as the NGV and the Immigration Museum to develop EAL teaching resources. \nDrawing on her expertise in the functional model of language\, Rebekah supports teachers to design practical\, purposeful\, and engaging learning tasks that prepare EAL students for the academic demands of mainstream schooling. \nCost\n$10 – VicTESOL members (including members of other state TESOL associations)\n$30 – Non-members\nBecome a member today\, for member prices! \nPlease note: VicTESOL is a not-for-profit organisation. Your registration ensures we can continue to offer high quality professional learning. Registrations are per participant. Purchasing a ticket buys the participant the right to the live online session. Registration is not to be shared with any other person who has not purchased a ticket. 
URL:https://victesol.vic.edu.au/event/persuasive-writing-for-eal-learners-a-functional-grammar-approach/
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SUMMARY:Teaching Otherwise: Hybrid Professional Becoming in Multilingual English Classrooms
DESCRIPTION:Teaching Otherwise: Hybrid Professional Becoming in Multilingual English Classrooms\nLiza Abad\, Amna Iqbal\, Ashley Starford\, Thanh Huong Hang Le (Jo Le)\, Nashid Nigar \nFaculty of Education\, University of Melbourne \n13 November 5:30pm – 6:30pm AEDT\, Online\nA gathering of stories\, senses\, and solidarities \nWhat does it mean to teach English across multiple languages\, lands\, and life-worlds? \nThis session brings together a diverse group of English educators—teaching in schools\, TAFE\, community programs\, and universities across Australia and beyond—who work daily with learners from both English-first and additional-language backgrounds. The panel members are connected through Dr Nigar’s teaching and research on languages and literacies education at the University of Melbourne\, and as participants and/or co-authors in her related projects. Many have also shared narratives of lived experience and professional insight as part of her broader research collaborations. \nTogether with Dr Nigar—whose award-winning research developed the Hybrid Professional Becoming (HPB) approach\, a fluid and relational way of shaping professional identity across contexts—the panel will invite participants into an artefact-rich\, co-created space of epistemic care. \nPremised on Hybrid Relational Onto-Epistemology (HROE)—which we define as mixing diverse ways of being\, connecting\, and knowing—the session foregrounds the lived\, multilingual\, and affectively charged (encompassing emotion\, feeling\, and embodied sense and their movements) knowledge of teachers working with EAL/D learners\, migrant and refugee students\, and culturally diverse cohorts. \nPanellists will share practical and imaginative curriculum provocations\, including: \n· a phonics remix through students’ home languages\, \n· a migration object-as-poem connecting personal histories with classroom learning\, and \n· a pedagogical moment of rupture that reshaped a lesson around student agency. \nThe artefacts do more than illustrate practice—they speak back to standard English focused monolingual standardisation and technocratic pressures\, reclaiming teacher professional identity as ethical\, embodied\, relational\, and affective. \nThrough translanguaging activities such as a Languages of Care Padlet and small-group storytelling\, participants will surface their own hybrid knowings-cum-becomings—shaping professional identity through lived knowledges—and reimagine literacy\, curriculum\, and assessment. Together\, we ask: \n· What do we know as teachers that cannot be measured? \n· Which professional norms feel unliveable? \n· How might we sustain joy\, solidarity\, and agency amid policy constraints? \nParticipants will leave with a practical resource pack—including zines on linguistically and culturally responsive pedagogy\, phonics remixes using students’ home languages\, artefact templates such as ‘migration object-as-poem’ activities\, and care collages designed to build \nclassroom solidarity—which they can adapt for English lessons\, literacy support\, and intercultural projects in their own classrooms and communities”. \nHere\, teaching is reframed not as compliance with fixed norms\, but as a relational and intercultural act of becoming and cosmopolitan envision—a shared journey towards inclusive\, justice-oriented education. \nSpeakers\nLiza C Abad Liza is a globally experienced multilingual teacher\, currently teaching English at a TAFE in Melbourne. With over a decade of experience across ELICOS\, AMEP\, and community education\, she integrates creative and tech-enhanced pedagogies with culturally responsive strategies that honour learners’ journeys\, linguistic assets\, and aspirations. \nAmna Iqbal Amna is a multilingual English teacher and researcher with experience in both public and independent schools\, where she has worked extensively with multilingual EAL students. With a background in English Literature\, Spanish\, and learning design\, she brings creativity\, cultural awareness\, and relational care to her practice. Entering the profession through Teach for Australia\, she is now completing a Master of Education (Research) at the University of Melbourne\, reimagining English teaching as an ethical and inclusive practice that nurtures belonging and curiosity. \nAshley Starford Ashley is an Academic Teacher and Teaching Associate who supports multilingual and EAL learners across higher education and English language programs. He teaches at the University of Melbourne and Monash University and is also an Academic Adviser and ELICOS teacher at Swinburne College. His work centres on inclusive curriculum design\, teacher–student relationships\, and innovative English for Academic Purposes pedagogies. He holds a Master of Education (TESOL) from the University of Melbourne and a Graduate Certificate in Learning and Teaching (Higher Education). \nThanh Huong Hang Le (Jo Le) Jo is a multilingual English teacher and researcher with experience in community\, adult\, and school-based learning settings. Currently supporting students at Collingwood College and AMES Australia\, Jo brings intercultural curiosity\, community care\, and creative inquiry to her teaching. Grounded in lived migration experience and translingual perspectives\, her practice affirms learner voices and cultural heritage while fostering inclusive education. She holds a Master of Education (TESOL) from the University of Melbourne. \nMartha Heng Xia is an EAL/AMEP teacher at Chisholm Institute TAFE with over a decade of experience in English language teaching across TAFE\, RTOs\, and community education. Currently completing her PhD in Education at Monash University\, her research explores multilingualism\, TESOL\, and teacher identities. She designs culturally responsive resources and learning environments that support employability\, life skills\, and student wellbeing\, drawing on her expertise in translating\, intercultural communication\, and learner-centred pedagogy. \nDr Nashid Nigar Nashid is a Lecturer at the University of Melbourne with over 20 years’ teaching experience across schools\, TAFE\, community education\, and universities in Australia and internationally. Awarded the prestigious Mollie Holman Medal for her PhD\, she has made a significant impact on research and practice in English teacher professional identity\, multilingual pedagogies\, and interculturally responsive academic development. Her work focuses on Hybrid Professional Becoming and designing inclusive\, justice-oriented curricula across diverse contexts. \nCost\n$10 – VicTESOL members (including members of other state TESOL associations)\n$30 – Non-members\nBecome a member today\, for member prices! \nPlease note: VicTESOL is a not-for-profit organisation. Your registration ensures we can continue to offer high quality professional learning. Registrations are per participant. Purchasing a ticket buys the participant the right to the live online session. Registration is not to be shared with any other person who has not purchased a ticket. 
URL:https://victesol.vic.edu.au/event/teaching-otherwise-hybrid-professional-becoming-in-multilingual-english-classrooms/
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SUMMARY:LMERC Resourcing Event 
DESCRIPTION:LMERC Resourcing Event\n20 November 2025 5:30pm – 6:30pm AEDT\, In Person\nA short presentation on accessing LMERC eBooks will be given by Ruth Woolven\, Manager at LMERC. There will be an opportunity to ask questions following the presentation. \nThe Languages and Multicultural Education Resource Centre is a DE library for educators across all sectors and levels in K-adult settings. Membership is free and resources can be borrowed for up to 12 weeks. The library holds over 25\,000 specialised hardcopy and digital resources related to EAL\, Languages and the cross-curriculum priority areas such as Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander histories and cultures and Asia and Australia’s engagement with Asia as well as the Intercultural capability. \nTo join the library\, go to the library homepage and click on the register button (top right side). Fill in the short online form. \nFor more information about the library\, go to LearnPath guide – About LMERC \nFor more information about resources at LMERC to support EAL learners\, go to LearnPath guide – EAL \nGetting there / parking \nBy Tram \nTram Routes: 3\, 3a\, 5\, 6\, 16\, 64\, 67\, 72. \nTram Stop #1: Melbourne University \nDirections: Walk east from Melbourne University along Faraday Street (400 metres) to 189 Faraday Street (COASIT building) \nTram Route: 1\, 8 \nTram Stop #112:Corner Elgin St/Lygon St \nDirections: Walk south/toward city along Lygon Street (100 metres) then turn left into Faraday Street (LMERC is city side of Faraday St) \nBy train \nMelbourne Central Station (then a tram ride as per above) \nParking \n1hr and 2 hr parking is available in Faraday Street and surrounding area. Paid parking is available in Drummond Street (Lygon Court and Clocktower). \nCost \n$10 – VicTESOL members (including members of other state TESOL associations)\n$30 – Non-members\nBecome a member today\, for member prices!
URL:https://victesol.vic.edu.au/event/lmerc-resourcing-event-2025/
LOCATION:Languages and Multicultural Education Resources Centre\, Level 1\, CO.AS.IT Building\, 189 Faraday St Carlton\, Melbourne\, Victoria\, 3053\, Australia
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