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July 2020
Teaching Grammar: A Deductive Approach
Julia Lippold Lauriston Girls School Thursday 30 July, 3:45-5:15 pm Online Webinar Teaching grammar can be fraught with challenges. In the EAL setting, students can find understanding syntactical metalanguage as well as abstract concepts challenging. So how do we make grammar accessible to EAL students? My approach to teaching grammar is, at its core, deductive rather than didactic encouraging students to figure out rules and patterns deductively rather than being expressly instructed. Getting students involved in the learning process is…
Find out more »August 2020
Translanguaging in the Classroom
Dr Sue Ollerhead, Macquarie University Wednesday 5 August, 4-5pm Online Webinar In this workshop, Sue will discuss the important role that students' home languages play in their classroom learning. She will explore the rationale for using translanguaging as a pedagogical approach and present some key classroom translanguaging strategies used by teachers to create more inclusive and engaging learning experiences for multilingual learners. The session will be aimed mostly at upper primary and secondary teachers, but the principles can be applied…
Find out more »Using the Foundation to Level 6 Literacy Teaching Toolkit to support EAL learners
Yan Yao Choong, Department of Education and Training Wednesday 12 August, 4:00-5:00pm Free Webinar - Click here to register The Literacy Teaching Toolkit provides practical advice and high impact teaching practices to improve student outcomes in reading, writing and speaking and listening. In 2019, the Foundation to Level 6 Literacy Teaching Toolkit (F-6 Toolkit) was updated to include specific strategies to differentiate for EAL learners. This webinar introduces the EAL content incorporated in the F-6 Toolkit and how it may…
Find out more »October 2020
*New Date* Resourcing and Networking Session at LMERC
***This event has been postponed to a later date due to the coronavirus outbreak. Feel free to register for this event. The preliminary date is now Thursday 15 October. However, this is subject to change depending on the health situation at the time. We will contact you at a later date with more information about this event.*** Languages and Multicultural Education Resource Centre (LMERC) Level 1, 189 Faraday Street Carlton Thursday 15 October (Preliminary date - subject to change depending…
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