Reciprocal Multilingual Learning with EAL/D students

Mei French

University of South Australia

TQI Accredited!

As multilingual speakers, our EALD students bring a valuable repertoire of languages, skills and knowledge to their learning. Mei will share some principles for multilingual pedagogies, developed through research and practice that bring engaging, effective and empowering learning into EALD and mainstream classrooms. She will illustrate these with examples from students and teachers in Australian classrooms, and support you to develop ideas for enhancing multilingual approaches in your own primary, post-primary and adult classrooms.

Mei French is an educational linguist. She is an Early Career Researcher and Lecturer with Education Futures at the University of South Australia, and a member of the Centre for Research in Educational and Social Inclusion.

Mei’s research focusses on education for multilingual learners in Australian schools and higher education. She has researched how multilingual high school students use their languages to support their learning and identity, and how these practices can be used to inform teaching and educational policy. Her research connects with teacher education in English as an Additional Language or Dialect (EAL/D), Languages education, and across all learning areas.

WHEN:                2 – 4 pm Saturday 2^nd November 2024

WHERE:             On-line – you’ll be sent a link when you register.

COST:                $20 ATESOL ACT and interstate TESOL Association ACTA members; $40 non-members.
To join ATESOL ACT, go to: Join ATESOL A.C.T | ATESOL ACT

REGISTER:        Click here no later than COB Friday 1^st November 2024

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