Abstract
Current Research in Multilingual and Multimodal Literacy across Content Areas
Speaker
Prof. Yuen Yi LO
Dr. Hyejeong Ahn
About the Speaker
Yuen Yi Lo’s research mainly focuses on English Medium Instruction and Content and Language Integrated Learning. She has been exploring different issues such as students’ academic literacies development, teacher professional development and assessment in these contexts. In this research symposium, she will share some insights from her on-going project on multimodal assessment in CLIL and their implications for multimodal literacy education.
Dr Hyejeong Ahn is a Senior Lecturer at Language and Literacy in the Faculty of Education, University of Melbourne. Her professional experience as an educator spans three countries: Australia, South Korea, and Singapore. Dr Ahn started her teaching career as an early years primary school teacher in South Australia before transitioning to higher educational institutes, working with a wide range of students from various linguistic and socio-economic backgrounds in both local and international contexts. Dr. Ahn’s research employs an evidence-based approach, studying and evaluating the rapidly evolving language and literacy skills needed for students to actively and meaningfully engage in international affairs within the global context. Her recent publications include “Beyond Borrowing: Lexical Interactions between Englishes and Asian Languages” (Routledge, 2023), “Lessons from a Translingual Romance: Conflict and Cultural Innovation of Intercultural Couples” (Palgrave Macmillan, 2023), and “Emergence of Korean English” (Routledge, 2023).
Abstract
The role of text in literacy development across content areas
Speaker
Dr. Martina Tassone
Dr. Troy Potter
Prof. Clarence Green
About the Speaker
Martina Tassone is a Senior Lecturer at the University of Melbourne’s Faculty of Education where she is also the Director of Initial Teacher Education. Martina is a qualified primary teacher who has worked with schools with diverse populations both in Australia and New Zealand to bring about literacy improvement. Martina has worked with systems across Australia to facilitate large-scale early years literacy projects, impacting over 400 primary teachers. She has been an invited keynote presenter for the Primary English Teaching Association of Australia. Martina’s research interests include teachers’ assessment literacy, the nexus between pre-school literacies and school literacies and building teacher knowledge and agency to improve literacy learning.
Troy Potter is a senior lecturer at the University of Melbourne, Australia. His interdisciplinary research explores critical and disciplinary literacies in the secondary school context, with a particular focus on literary education. His other main areas of research include representations of gender and sexuality in literature for young people. He is the author of Books for Boys: Manipulating Genre in Contemporary Australian Young Adult Fiction (2018).
Dr Clarence Green is an Assistant Professor in the Faculty of Education, University of Hong Kong. He holds a PhD in linguistics (University of Melbourne) and was formerly a k-12 literacy teacher. His research is focusses on vocabulary, computational models of reading, corpus linguistics, first and second language acquisition, and disciplinary literacy. He is co-chair of the Australian Linguistics Society’s ‘Linguistics in the Schools’ panel and a member of the editorial board of the Journal of English for Academic Purposes, the Australian Journal of Linguistics and the Asia Pacific Journal of Education.
Date
2024.11.19
Time
13:00-15:00 (HKT)
Location
ZOOM
Chair
Prof. Lianjiang Jiang
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