Lecturer in Language Education and Asia Literacy in the Education Futures unit at the University of South Australia. Course Coordinator for the Master of Teaching. Languages Education specialisation. Currently involved in a federally funded national project to develop a national strategy and plan for Language Educatiion in Australian schools. Also undertaking a project for Department for Education SA to develop a quality assurance framework for the Chinese bilingual program in a local state school.
My research intersts focus on aspects of languages teaching and learning in schools, including curriculum design, textbook design, learner engagement, and assessment practices. My primary focus is on Chinese language teaching... Read more
About me
Lecturer in Language Education and Asia Literacy in the Education Futures unit at the University of South Australia. Course Coordinator for the Master of Teaching. Languages Education specialisation. Currently involved in a federally funded national project to develop a national strategy and plan for Language Educatiion in Australian schools. Also undertaking a project for Department for Education SA to develop a quality assurance framework for the Chinese bilingual program in a local state school.
My research intersts focus on aspects of languages teaching and learning in schools, including curriculum design, textbook design, learner engagement, and assessment practices. My primary focus is on Chinese language teaching and learning, particularly on issues in teaching and learning Chinese characters.
About me
Australian Federation of Modern Languages Teachers Associations (AFMLTA),Languages and Cultures Network for Australian Universities. (LCNAU),Modern Languages Teachers Association of SA (MLTASA), Applied Linguistics Association of Australia (ALAA)
About me
Master of Education University of South Australia
Graduate Certificate of Language Education University of South Australia
Bachelor of Arts University of Adelaide
Diploma of Education University of Adelaide
1984 – 1997, Teacher of Chinese, St Ignatius College Adelaide
1986- 2002, Chief Examiner for Chinese, Senior Secondary Assessment Board of SA (now SACE Board of SA)
1998 – 2014, Research Fellow, Research Centre for Languages and Cultures, UniSA.
2009-2015, Associate member, Chinese Teacher Training Centre, Melbourne Graduate School of Education, University of Melbourne
2015 – present, Research Academic, Education Futures, UniSA
Currently involved as a Lead Researcher in a federally funded national project being undertaken by the AFMLTA to develop a National Strategy and Plan for Language Education in Australian schools.
Currently working with teachers of Chinese in the bilingual program at Plympton International College to develop an F-10 Chinese curriculum based on the Language & Literacy orientation of the Australian Curriculum: English. This activity is part of the Quality Assurance Framework for the Chinese Bilingual Program being undertaken with Assoc Prof. Kathleen Heugh, UniSA.
Member of the Australia-China relations and Higher Education research network at Deakin University which seeks to address the challenges for the... Read more
Research
Excludes commercial-in-confidence projects.
Delivery of Languages Professional Learning Program (LPLP): Key Idea 3 &4, SA Dept for Education and Children's Services, 16/04/2019 - 16/04/2020
Research
Research outputs for the last seven years are shown below. To see earlier years visit ORCID or Scopus
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Research
Currently involved as a Lead Researcher in a federally funded national project being undertaken by the AFMLTA to develop a National Strategy and Plan for Language Education in Australian schools.
Currently working with teachers of Chinese in the bilingual program at Plympton International College to develop an F-10 Chinese curriculum based on the Language & Literacy orientation of the Australian Curriculum: English. This activity is part of the Quality Assurance Framework for the Chinese Bilingual Program being undertaken with Assoc Prof. Kathleen Heugh, UniSA.
Member of the Australia-China relations and Higher Education research network at Deakin University which seeks to address the challenges for the Australia-China bilateral education relationship emerging from the current climate. The initial study of the network will focus on Capturing tertiary and schools-based educators’ experiences of the impact of current tensions in the Australia-China relationship.
Recent conference presentations (2021)
Keynote address at the Chinese Language Conference hosted by the Swire Chinese Language Foundation, London: ‘Developing literacy skills in Chinese: lessons from Australia’ held online on Monday 21 June 2021.
Presentation at the National Summit of the federally funded National Strategy and Plan for Languages Education Project on which he is a Lead Researcher, on Friday June 25 2021. The presentation outlined the findings of a national survey of Language teachers included in a Discussion Paper tables at the Summit. The Summit was held to contribute to the development of the National Strategy and Plan to be delivered to the federal government in June 2022.
Part of a panel presentation on the federally-funded National Strategy and Plan for Languages Education project, and a paper ‘A review of the findings of the national survey of Languages teachers’ undertaken as part of that project, presented at the biennial International Languages Conference held by the Australian Federation of Modern Language Teachers Associations (AFMLTA), held online July 5&6 2021.
Keynote address ‘Developing Language and Literacy Curriculum for CLIL Immersion Programs‘ at inaugural Intensive Chinese Network Discussion Forum on Chinese CLIL and Bilingual Education Wednesday July 7, Melbourne
A paper, 'Enhancing Literacy Learning in Early Years Immersion Contexts' at the 6th International Conference on Chinese as a Second Language Acquisition Research (CASLAR), University of Washington DC, held online on July 30-August 1 2021.
A paper, ‘Chinese teacher voices; insights from national language teacher surveys’ presented at the annual conference of the Chinese Language Teachers Association of SA held online on Saturday Aug 21 2021.
External engagement & recognition
| Organisation | Country |
|---|---|
| Auckland University | NEW ZEALAND |
| Darwin High School | AUSTRALIA |
| Haileybury | AUSTRALIA |
| James Cook University | AUSTRALIA |
| Macquarie University | AUSTRALIA |
| Monash University | AUSTRALIA |
| Saint Ignatius College | AUSTRALIA |
| School of Languages, West Croydon | AUSTRALIA |
| University of Adelaide | AUSTRALIA |
| University of Melbourne | AUSTRALIA |
| University of New England | AUSTRALIA |
| University of Queensland | AUSTRALIA |
| University of South Australia | AUSTRALIA |
| University of Southern Queensland | AUSTRALIA |
| University of Sydney | AUSTRALIA |
| University of Toronto | CANADA |
External engagement & recognition
| Engagement/recognition | Year |
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Featured conference presentation5th International Conference on Chinese as a Second Language Research (CASLAR-5), University of Hong Kong |
2018 |
MemberAustralian Federation of Modern Languages Teachers Associations (AFMLTA) |
2018 |
MemberLanguages and Cultures Network for Australian Universities (LCNAU) |
2018 |
MemberModern Languages Teachers Association of SA (MLTASA) |
2018 |
Academic chair for the biennial International Languages Conference held by the Australian Federation of Modern Language Teachers Associations (AFMLTA), held in Hobart, July 8&9 2019, and online, July 5&6 2021.
Editor of BABEL, the peer reviewed journal of the Australian Federation of Modern Language Teachers Associations (AFMLTA), publishing three issues annually
Member of the executive committee of the modfern Language Teachers associatoin of South Australia (President 2014-17)
My teaching interests include Languages Education (preparing pre-service teachers of all languages to teaching in primary and secondary school conexts) and Asian Studies, with a focus on the developing Asia Literacy in teachers across curriculum areas.
Teaching & student supervision
