Languages and cultures education
Schooling in many nations has undergone a paradigm shift, to adopt ideas of ‘intercultural’ education, whereby formal education seeks to develop in students the values, knowledge and skills that promote and reinforce beneficial and long-lasting inter-ethnic relations at the individual, group and community levels. Some scholars of second and foreign language education have embraced these ideas to theorise a new set of goals for formalised classroom language learning. Research in this new paradigm of ‘intercultural language education’ examines many aspects of explicit language learning processes, processes in ‘culture learning’, identity formation as a result of language learning, teacher pedagogy, new developments in curriculum construction and materials design, and teachers’ ways of identifying and assessing intercultural learning outcomes.
Researchers in this area include:
| Dr Ruth Fielding | Lecturer - Languages Curriculum and TESOL; Curriculum Coordinator Languages (Single Method); Acting Program Director BEd Secondary Combined Degrees Keywords: Bilingualism, identity, languages education, intercultural language learning, TESOL |
| Associate Professor Lesley Harbon | Associate Dean, International; Curriculum Coordinator, Languages, BEd(Secondary) combined degrees Keywords: intercultural languages education, language teacher professional development, immersion languages education |
| Dr David Hirsh | Convenor, Dissertations and Special Projects; Senior Lecturer in TESOL; Associate Dean, Postgraduate Programs Keywords: language & culture, indigenous language use, second language vocabulary development, academic acculturation |
| Associate Professor Huizhong Shen | Associate Professor in TESOL |
| Honorary Professor Jack C Richards | Honorary Professor Keywords: Language Teacher Education, Methodology in Language Teaching, Curriculum Design and Materials Development |
| Ms Neta Steigrad | Associate Lecturer Curriculum: Classical Hebrew and Judaism Keywords: Language teacher education, teacher mentoring, community languages |
| Dr Hoa Thi Mai Nguyen | Research Fellow |
| Honorary Professor Anne Burns | Honorary Professor |
| Mr John Hobson | Lecturer in Indigenous Education; Director, Graduate Indigenous Education Programs Keywords: Australian languages, Indigenous languages education, language revival, Indigenous teacher education, ICT in education. |