WegE Lecture: Traversing multilingualism and the monolingual mindset : A critical perspective on Languages education in Australian schools (Michiko Weinmann)Veranstalter: WegE (Qualitätsoffensive Lehrerbildung) Montag, 18.11.2019: 16:00 - 17:30 Uhr; LU19/00.09The lecture will provide an overview of the national context and state of play of Languages education in Australia, commenting on key policy and curriculum shifts in the recent decades, including the implementation of a national Australian curriculum Languages. By drawing on selected examples from recent research projects, the talk aims to illustrate the complexities inherent in Languages education debates in Australia, and how these are articulated in teacher and student perspectives, media representations, and discussions around the provision of quality languages programs.
The talk seeks to provide a current commentary on the implications of some of the challenges that the Australian multi/monolingual context poses for languages education and teacher education, including concerns around language teacher recruitment and retention, high student attrition in languages classes, but also more complex concerns like identities of languages teachers (of different languages) and their students, and how powerful discourses of nation, geography, ethnicity, teacher 'quality' and 'professionalism' play out in the staffroom and in classrooms.
It will conclude by providing some theoretical provocations, challenging the dichotomisation of lingualisms towards a more constructive approach that acknowledges the multiplicity language users, irrespective of whether they speak one or many.
Michiko Weinmann is Senior Lecturer (Languages Education) and Co-Director of the Centre for Teaching and Learning Languages (CTaLL) at Deakin University. Her research spans Languages and multilingual education, curriculum inquiry, studies of Asia and global mobility in teacher education.
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