Languages and Literacies Education Academic Group

DR Andrea Truckenbrodt

DR Annemaree O'Brien

MS April Edwards

DR Bella Nitza Illesca

DR Chris Corbel

DR Edith Nicolas

DR Emily Frawley

DR Helen Cozmescu

DR Hesaam Kashi

DR Hossein Shokouhi

DR Hyejeong Ahn

Projects

Projects conducted by research group members

Displaying 10 projects from 53 for the research group.

Challenging Masculinities: Male-Identifying Teachers’ Gender-Just Pedagogical Practices in Australia

2026 - 2027

Beyond the Monolingual Lens: Advancing Linguistically Responsive Phonics in Early Reading Instruction

2026 - 2026

Research Impetus Grants (RIG) - 2024

2025 - 2026

Dialogic Interactions of Education Students With Australian Picture Books

2026 - 2026

Digital School Reading: Exploring the New Frontiers of English Education

2026 - 2026

Scholarly Works

Scholarly Works by research group members

Displaying 10 scholarly works from 813 for the research group.

2. Research essentials: an overview of methodological approaches

Mairin Hennebry-Leung

Book Chapter | 2026

12 Understanding the Pedagogical Challenges in Online Learning for EAL Students

Gary Bonar, Anne Keary, Yvette Slaughter, Tanya Davies

Book Chapter | 2026

Basketball Courts as Chronotopic Assemblages: (Dis)Embodied Dialogues in Becoming Educational Citizens

E Heidari, M Janfada

Journal article | 2026 | Urban Review

Open access

Public [basketball] courts are increasingly recognised as informal urban spaces where civic relations are learned, contested, and ..

“This is the Work I'm Most Proud of”: K-Pop Fandom and Children's Multilingual Literacy Practices

J Choi, R Cleeve Gerkens

Journal article | 2026 | Modern Language Journal

Open access

This paper examines how children's affective investments in K-pop generated sustained multilingual literacy practices in an arts-b..

Using Grammar Dimensions to Transform Multilingual Teachers From Rule Repeaters to Reason Givers

C Corbel, J Choi, D Nunan

Journal article | 2026 | Tesol Journal

Open access

This study examines a reconceptualized approach to grammar addressing fundamental gaps in multilingual teacher preparation. Tradit..

The Development of L2 Selves Among Chinese Early Adolescent Learners of English in Student- and Teacher-Centred Contexts: A Person-in-Context Relational View

X Hu, M Hennebry-Leung

Journal article | 2026 | International Journal of Applied Linguistics United Kingdom

In language education, student-centred instruction is often promoted as beneficial for learners. However, in Confucian heritage co..

Artful ways of being an Educator

Jack Tan

Journal article | 2026 | Creative Matters

Art matters and poetry is necessary for education. In my creative submission, I advocate for poetry writing as a method of critica..

Mathematical Disciplinary Literacy: Enhancing Teacher Pedagogical Agency to Support Students’ Written Explanations

T Potter, M Nicolazzo

Journal article | 2026 | Journal of Adolescent and Adult Literacy

Open access

This article discusses the benefits of adopting disciplinary literacy approaches in Mathematics. We propose disciplinary literacy ..

Autoethnography of Border Crossing: A Transcultural Teacher’s Prose Poetry as World Making

Jack Tan

Journal article | 2026 | International Review of Qualitative Research

This article engages critical autoethnography and prose poetic inquiry to chronicle my crossing of geographical and educational bo..

Correction to: “Insufficiently Korean” to strategic meaning-maker: textual transpositioning and multilingual identity work (The Australian Journal of Language and Literacy, (2026), 10.1007/s44020-026-00104-5)

J Choi, A Truckenbrodt

Journal article | 2026 | Australian Journal of Language and Literacy

Open access

The original article has been revised. In Section 3.2, the paragraph beginning with the sentence 'A multilingual writer who simply..

News

News by research group members

Displaying 10 news articles from 15 for the research group.

Male teachers can challenge misogyny in schools every day, not just on International Women’s Day

Troy Potter, Michael Kehler

International Women’s Day is an important day for everyone, regardless of gender, to raise awareness about gender inequality. This includes..

March 5, 2026

Reading how to be male

Troy Potter

There’s growing concern about the rise of harmful and aggressive forms of masculinity, whether at home, in schools or in public spaces. Par..

January 22, 2026

Leave notes, play games, go shopping: how to boost your child’s multilingual skills these holidays

Julie Choi

About 5.7 million Australians speak a language other than English at home. Most multilingual children spend their school days speaking Engl..

December 16, 2025

While ChatGPT can help, Australian students must remember to think for themselves

Emily Frawley

2025’s Year 12 students are the first group in history to have gone through their final years of high school with widespread access to Gene..

September 15, 2025

Why collaborative mentoring for teachers is key to great education

Jeana Kriewaldt, Nicky Dulfer, Edith Nicolas

Australia’s education system is grappling with a serious challenge. The Australian Federal Government has warned that secondary teacher dem..

July 23, 2025

Episode 2: Strengthening multiculturalism in a time of conflict

Jon Faine, Karen Farqhuarson, Joseph Lo Bianco, Ghassan Hage

Australia’s modern history of multiculturalism, especially after the Second World War, has been held up as one of the success stories of Au..

September 26, 2024

5 books for kids and teens that positively portray trans and gender-diverse lives

Troy Potter

International Transgender Day of Visibility is an opportunity to celebrate trans and gender-diverse people – and to raise awareness of the ..

March 30, 2023

'Nostalgic' classics, or edgy contemporary texts? What books are kids reading in Australian schools – and does it matter?

Alex Bacalja

Debates about what books students should be reading in high school reach a crescendo at the start of each school year. As parents make t..

January 29, 2023

Remote learning is even harder when English isn't students' first language. Schools told us their priorities for supporting them

Gary Bonar, Anne Keary, Tanya Davies, Yvette Slaughter

The COVID-19 pandemic has left large numbers of students, teachers and families grappling with the challenges of remote learning. Remote le..

September 7, 2021

Teen summer reads: how to escape to another world after a year stuck in this one

Troy Potter

This article is part of three-part series on summer reads for young people after a very unique year. As this tumultuous year comes to a..

December 21, 2020