VicTESOL Symposium 2018 – Presenter Information
VicTESOL Symposium 2018 – Presenter Information
Event Running Order
| Time | Activity | Session details |
|---|---|---|
| 8:30 – 9:00am | Registration | |
| 9:00 – 9:15am | Welcome | |
| 9:15 – 10:15am | Keynote | Dr Julie Choi Language as a resource or using languages resourcefully? Why perspective matters |
| 10:20 – 10:50am | Parallel Sessions 1 | New Arrivals: Yvette Slaughter Early Years / Primary: Daniel Thomas Secondary: Julia Lippold & Annette Ambesi Adult / Community: Rebecca Robinson |
| 10:50 – 11:20am | Morning Tea | |
| 11:25 – 11:55am | Parallel Sessions 2 | Teaching & Learning Cycle Project: Beverly Derewianka Early Years / Primary: Melodie Davies & Carolina Cabezas-Benalcazar Secondary: Leah Kontos Adult / Community: Cathy Gill & Rei Chin |
| 12:00 – 12:30pm | Parallel Sessions 3 | Teaching & Learning Cycle Project: Beverly Derewianka (Cont.) Early Years / Primary: Sara Stefani & Karen Bonson Secondary: Melissa Barnes, Seham Shwayli & Pamalee Matthews Adult / Community: Ken Dei Wal |
| 12:30 – 1:45pm | Lunch | |
| 1:50 – 2:20pm | Parallel Sessions 4 | New Arrivals: Mervi Kaukko Early Years / Primary: Michelle Andrews Secondary: Michiko Weinmann Adult / Community: Joanne Goodman |
| 2:25 – 3:25pm | Keynote | Professor Alex Kostogriz Transcultural literacy: Connecting languages and cultures in EAL education |
| 3:30 – 4:00pm | Afternoon tea & networking |
Keynote Speakers
Dr Julie Choi
9:15 – 10:15am
Biography
Dr Julie Choi is a Lecturer in Education (Additional Languages) at the Melbourne Graduate School of Education. She has worked in adult ESL/EFL teaching in China and Japan, and in TESOL teacher development with tertiary-level students in Australia.
Dr Choi is interested in reflective and reflexive writing styles using autoethnographic approaches. Her research projects focus on plurilingual pedagogies, the intersection of language, culture and identity, and the language learning needs of refugee women and youths in Australia.
Dr Choi is co-editor of Language and Culture: Reflective Narratives and the Emergence of Identity (2010) and sole author of Creating a Multivocal Self: Autoethnography as Method (2017).
Keynote Abstract
Language as a resource or using languages resourcefully? Why perspective matters
Over the past decade, ‘The Multilingual Turn’ has brought about new ways of thinking about language and language use. In this presentation, Julie Choi discusses projects investigating the language practices of multilingual learners both in and out of the classroom, showing how learners’ linguistic and non-linguistic resources are activated resourcefully. She argues that the concept of ‘resourcefulness’ is more helpful and productive than the rather static understanding of ‘language as a resource’.
Professor Alex Kostogriz
2:25 – 3:25pm
Biography
Professor Alex Kostogriz is Professor in Languages and TESOL Education at the Faculty of Education, Monash University. He has previously held leadership positions at Deakin University and Australian Catholic University.
His research is based on sociocultural approaches to learning and teaching and centres on understanding the conditions that shape students’ participation in classroom practices, and on using that understanding to help create effective classroom communities of learners and inform teaching practices.
His current research projects focus on the professional practice and ethics of language teachers, teacher education and experiences of beginning teachers.
Keynote Abstract
Transcultural literacy: Connecting languages and cultures in EAL education
This presentation explores the current conditions of EAL teachers’ work in the era of increased accountability for quality teaching, highlighting the often unintended effects of standards-based reforms on schools’ capacity to recognise linguistic and cultural diversity as a resource for learning.
Drawing on research into the literacy practices of young people in a diasporic community in Melbourne, the paper offers a conception of transcultural literacy arising from experiences of cultural and linguistic border-crossing, and concludes with practical implications for EAL teaching framed as a “pedagogy of Thirdspace”.
Parallel Sessions 1: Speakers
New Arrivals:
Yvette Slaughter
Senior Lecturer in Language and Literacy Education, Melbourne Graduate School of Education
Translanguaging and the role of L1 in the EAL classroom
Yvette reports on research into the use of ethnolinguistic mapping as a pedagogic device to assist EAL teachers in understanding their stances towards students’ multilingual repertoires, and discusses how teachers can leverage marginalised student groups’ linguistic resources.
Early Years / Primary:
Daniel Thomas
Foundation Teacher, Huntingdale Primary School
Strategies for valuing and modelling language learning as an educator in a unique bilingual immersion setting
Daniel Thomas focuses on pedagogical strategies used to promote and value home languages in the classroom while engaging learners in both English and Japanese.
Secondary:
Julia Lippold & Annette Ambesi
Establishing an EAL program in a mainstream school
This session explores coordinating and establishing an EAL program in a mainstream school, including program structure and practical tips for working with school administration unfamiliar with EAL pedagogy.
Adult / Community:
Rebecca Robinson
River Nile Learning Centre
Developing connections and communities in the classroom: Supporting and teaching refugee learners
This session focuses on supporting the learning, engagement and wellbeing of students from refugee backgrounds and explores classroom practices that provide a positive learning environment.
Parallel Sessions 2: Speakers
Teaching & Learning Cycle Project:
Prof Beverly Derewianka & Project Participants
Professor Beverly Derewianka and project participants share the Teaching and Learning Cycle Project and discuss resources being developed for teachers in Victoria.
Early Years / Primary:
Melodie Davies & Carolina Cabezas-Benalcazar
The connection between language, identity and wellbeing
This session looks at the link between identity, wellbeing and language in early childhood settings and the work FKA Children’s Services does to support teachers, educators, children and families.
Secondary:
Leah Kontos
Strategies for effective models in classroom observations and professional development
This workshop explores how colleagues at Blackburn English Language School have established inclusive and effective classroom observation models that build a culture of teacher self-reflection and peer feedback.
Adult / Community:
Cathy Gill & Rei Chin
Carringbush Adult Education
Teacher training videos for teachers of foundation level adult EAL learners
This session introduces a new series of teacher training videos developed by Carringbush Adult Education.
Parallel Sessions 3: Speakers
Teaching & Learning Cycle Project:
Prof Beverly Derewianka & Project Participants
This session is a continuation of Session 2.
Early Years / Primary:
Sara Stefani & Karen Bonson
Kensington Children’s Community Cooperative (KCCC)
Inclusion and Diversity
This session discusses using a benefit mindset approach to ensure diversity and inclusion are embedded in early childhood practices and programs.
Secondary:
Dr Melissa Barnes, Dr Seham Shwayli & Pamalee Matthews
VicTESOL Research Grant 2017 Recipients
This presentation shares findings from a study exploring principals’ and teachers’ beliefs, attitudes and experiences regarding EAL inclusion and support in two regional Victorian secondary schools.
Adult / Community:
Ken Dei Wal
Chairman, Federation of South Sudanese Associations in Victoria
Immigration and integration of South Sudanese community in Australia
The Federation’s work focuses on advocacy, service provision, social justice and equal opportunity, helping empower communities through engagement and support services.
Parallel Sessions 4: Speakers
New Arrivals:
Dr Mervi Kaukko
Monash University
Storycrafting with new arrivals
Mervi Kaukko discusses storycrafting as an educational tool to enable newly arrived children to use their language(s), drawing on work co-created with students at Noble Park Primary School.
Early Years / Primary:
Michelle Andrews
Session Details
This session explores “recycling” language through carefully planned activities and situations across the curriculum so that target language becomes automatic, embedded and reusable in new contexts.
Secondary:
Dr Michiko Weinmann
Deakin University
Orientating Multilingualism: Navigating teacher identities
This presentation explores how the normative conditions of language, culture and identity shape Languages and EAL/D teaching, and argues for multilingual approaches informed by a deeper interrogation of identity and difference.
Adult / Community:
Joanne Goodman
Melbourne Polytechnic
Change Management: Staying Calm, Communicative and Clear
This workshop explores the challenges of shifting migration patterns and funding demands in adult EAL education and considers calm, clear and communicative approaches to successful change management.
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