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Prof

Joseph Lo Bianco

Honorary
Melbourne Graduate School of Education
social sciences
4 quality education
linguistics
education & educational research
language & linguistics
language policy
australia
education
area studies
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Prof

Joseph Lo Bianco

 
Division
Melbourne Graduate School of Education
 
Primary Interest
English as a second language; International English
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Joseph Lo Bianco's research groups

  • Languages and Literacies Education Academic Group

    The Languages and Literacies Academic Group brings together academics in languages and literacies from a range of education focussed contexts, including the early years, primary, secondary and tertiary settings, and into adulthood.

Projects

Displaying the 10 most recent projects from 15 for Joseph Lo Bianco.

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The Ancient Today: Living Traditions of Classical Language Education

2022 - 2025
Active
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The experiences of refugee background students and classroom and school practice in primary and secondary schools in Metropolitan Melbourne

2019 - 2022
Completed
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STARTING YOUNG: EARLY YEARS LANGUAGES LEARNING IN AUSTRALIA

This project aims to investigate early year’s language programs in Australian schools. The project will explore and analyse successful progr..

2019 - 2022
Completed
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STARTING YOUNG: EARLY YEARS LANGUAGES LEARNING IN AUSTRALIA

This project aims to investigate early year’s language programs in Australian schools. The project will explore and analyse successful progr..

2019 - 2021
Completed
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Best Evidence Synthesis Early Childhood Language Program

2018 - 2019
Completed
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SUBCONTRACT WITH AUSTRALIAN COUNCIL FOR EDUCATIONAL RESEARCH (LEX34098)

2019 - 2019
Completed
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Peer Learning of Mandarin and English: an exploration of the possibilities of transnational digital pedagogy in the IB Middle Year's Programme

2014 - 2016
Completed
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LANGUAGES IN URBAN COMMUNITIES - INTEGRATION AND DIVERSITY FOR EUROPE (LUCIDE)

2012 - 2014
Completed
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Intercultural Approaches to Teaching Chinese: A Basis for Pedagogical Innovation

The nation in general will benefit by having a better prepared and more competent population of Chinese teachers, learners and professionals..

2010 - 2013
Completed
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SUSTAINABLE MODELS OF CONTENT AND LANGUAGE INTEGRATED LEARNING IN ASIAN LANGUAGES

2009 - 2010
Completed

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Projects

Project Types

7

Research Contracts

5

Research Grant

3

Internal Research Grant

Scholarly Works

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Reconceptualizing literacy for a new Australia

J Lo Bianco

Journal article  |  2022  |  Australian Journal of Language and Literacy

This article discusses ideas for a new literacy compact in Australia that would encompass multilingual, language revitalizing, and..

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L2 Chinese teachers' beliefs about engagement strategies for students in Australia: Findings from Q methodology research

Chengwen Yuan, Joseph Lo Bianco

Journal article  |  2022  |  SYSTEM

In most Anglophone countries, the lack of engagement in the second language (L2) classroom has been recognised as one of the great..

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Some Final Words on Languages and Religion: Peacebuilding, Personal Reflections and Professional Problems

Joseph Lo Bianco

Book Chapter  |  2022

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Low Print Literacy and Its Representation in Research and Policy

Bart Deygers, Martha Bigelow, Joseph Lo Bianco, Darshini Nadarajan, Massimiliano Tani

Journal article  |  2021  |  LANGUAGE ASSESSMENT QUARTERLY

This paper constitutes an edited transcript of two online panels, conducted with four scholars whose complementary expertise regar..

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The discourse of the edge: marginal advantage, positioning and linguistic entrepreneurship

Joseph Lo Bianco

Journal article  |  2021  |  MULTILINGUA-JOURNAL OF CROSS-CULTURAL AND INTERLANGUAGE COMMUNICATION

This contribution discusses some links between the linguistics and the economics of the spirit of entrepreneurship and entrepreneu..

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English language education in Singapore: research, practice & implications

J Lo Bianco, S Jones, J Loh

Journal article  |  2021  |  Asia Pacific Journal of Education

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The Kroonian Paradigm: Sjaak Kroon’s Distinctive Style of Language Work

JL Bianco

Book Chapter  |  2021

I first met Sjaak Kroon at a conference in Israel in the early 1990s at which he presented fascinating research about Eritrean lan..

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The Generations: Research and Application at the LTRC

Joe Lo Bianco

Journal article  |  2021  |  Papers in Language Testing and Assessment (PLTA)

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Literacy Learning and Language Education: Dominant Language Constellations and Contemporary Multilingualism

J Lo Bianco

Book Chapter  |  2021  |  Educational Linguistics

The DLC concept also allows teachers and researchers to take into account various kinds of impact that multilingualism has on educ..

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Language Policy for Starting Early, Reflections and Considerations

J Lo Bianco

Book Chapter  |  2021

This chapter focuses on shifting practices of language law and policy that once undermined but now typically, though not altogethe..

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Scholarly Works

Keyword Analysis

Specialist Studies in Education
Curriculum and Pedagogy
Schools and Learning Environments
Communication
Linguistics
Learner and Learning
Other Education and Training
Education Policy, Sociology and Philosophy
Education Systems
Expanding Knowledge

News

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What is the best way to respond to the Rohingya crisis: boycott, sanctions or engagement?

Anthony Ware, Joseph Lo Bianco, Paul Komesaroff

More than 820,000 Rohingya have now fled Myanmar for Bangladesh, at least 607,000 since August 25. That is more than half the Muslim popula..

November 14, 2017
conversation Article
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Using education to create cohesion from conflict

Joseph Lo Bianco

Social cohesion is one of the most important things in the world. We take it for granted, but I work in some societies where that’s not pos..

December 13, 2016
pursuit Article

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Honours, Awards and Fellowships

1998

Member of the Order of Australia

2011

Medal for Outstanding Service to Language Teaching

Australian Federation of Modern Language Teachers Associations
2007

College Medal

Australian College of Educators
2003

Centennial Medal

Contribution to Australian Society and to Literacy Policy
2003

Centenary Medal "for service to Australian society & the humanities in literacy planning"
1999

Commendatore for Australian-Italian Cultural Relations

Ordine di Merito della Repubblica Italiana.
1992

Collaboration Award

Goethe Institut/French Ministry of Foreign Affairs
1990

Medal

International Literacy Year
2014

Fellow US Heritage Language Alliance (Inaugural)

2014

Fellow Aspen Institute Italia

2002

Charles A Ferguson Fellowship for Excellence in Sociolinguistics (Centre for Applied Linguistics (CAL))

1999

FAHA - Fellow of the Australian Academy of the Humanities

1997

FACE - Fellow of the Australian College of Education

1996

Andrew W Mellon Fellowship

1992

FAICD - Fellow of the Australian Institute of Company Directors

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Awards

Credentials

Positions

Honorary

Melbourne Graduate School of Education

Honorary

Melbourne Graduate School of Education

Patron

Victorian School of Languages

Research Director

UNICEF Language and Peacebuilding initiative (Malaysia, Myanmar, Thailand)

Education

Doctor of Philosophy

The Australian National University

Company Directors

University of Sydney

Bachelor of Education

La Trobe University

Master of Arts

University of Melbourne

Links

International Linkages

Council of Europe

France

AusAID (Myanmar)

Myanmar

UNESCO (Australia)

Australia

Beijing Foreign Studies University

China