Thursdays: 25 August (NEW DATE), 20 October, 24 November All sessions 4:00-5:00pm Online and Free for VicTESOL members  For members of VicTESOL, we are offering an online space for EAL/TESOL educators to meet and share practice. You will have the chance to collaborate with other teachers outside of your school/institution, potentially discovering new ways of […]

LWA will showcase with VicTESOL, a suite of newly developed resources, funded by the Department of Home Affairs and aligned to the new AMEP national curriculum, featuring a pre-launch look at: a new suite of multi-modal booklets for EAL learners with emerging literacies who have little or no prior educational experience; the new AMEPOnline website; a publicly […]

In this webinar we present the results of an investigation of linguistically responsive vocabulary teaching in a Year 7 science class. We discuss how an EAL and science teacher worked together to apply the whole school’s Three Tiers approach to literacy across the curriculum with reference to the sub-strand word knowledge as one feature of […]

In this presentation, presenters from Lexis Education will explore ways of speeding up our EAL students’ learning of English and learning in English through a focus on how languages work to make meaning. This approach draws on a metalanguage (a language for talking about language) for English, which can be equally drawn on to contrast […]

Our upcoming event with Kellie Heintz from the VCAA will address many of the questions about the new VCE EAL study design asked in the recent VicTESOL survey of teachers.  More details to come. Presenter Kellie Heintz is currently employed as the EAL Curriculum Manager at the VCAA. Prior to this, she was a lecturer in […]