Skip to Content

Department of Linguistics

AMEP RESEARCH CENTRE

COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT

2007 – 2009

Providing professional development for teachers in the Adult Migrant English Program

2009

Planned and in progress:

  1. National Forum: Language, Workplace And Employablity Skills Adelaide. Speakers: Lynda Yates, Loy Ly Sing,  Macquarie University;
  2. Professional development course for ESOL teachers:  Teaching Intercultural Communication. Sydney.  Presenters: Lynda Yates, Macquarie University; Alan Williams, La Trobe University. (July, 2009)
  3. Professional development course for TESOL teachers: Teaching Pronunciation . Adelaide. Presenter: Beth Zielinski, Macquarie University. (October, 2009)
  4. National Forum: Language Training for Social Inclusion. Sydney.  Speakers: TBA .
  5. Teacher development workshops 2009:
    1. Teaching Pronunciation
    2. Teaching listening
    3. Cultural and linguistic aspects of request behaviour
    4. Content based instruction
    5. Teaching with digital technologies

2008

Convened and delivered:

  1. Professional development course for ESOL teachers:  Languqge learning in the Digital Age. Sydney. Presenter: Pam McPherson, Macquarie University.
  2. Professional development course for ESOL teachers: Teaching English for Employment . Sydney.  Presenters: Ingrid Piller, Laura Ficorilli , Macquarie University.
  3. National Forum: Pathways to Settlement, Sydney. Speakers: Pam McPherson, Ingrid Piller, Macquarie University.
  4. National Forum: Language Learning In The Digital Age. Melbourne. James Dalziel, John Hedberg, Martina Mollering, Marian Hargraves, Macquarie University.
  5. Convened and delivered teacher development workshops for AMEP Service Providers:
    1. Assessment principles and practices
    2. Teaching Reading
    3. Teaching disparate learner groups
    4. Teaching English for Employment
    5. Teaching Employability Skills
    6. Intercultural communication and language teaching
    7. Identity and language learning

2007

Convened and delivered:

  1. Professional development course for ESOL teachers:  Integrating Numeracy. Online.
    Presenter: Howard Nicholas, La Trobe University (consortium partner).
  2. Professional development course for TESOL teachers: Reframing Communicative Language Teaching. Melbourne. Presenters: Anne Burns, Macquarie University  and Helen de Silva Joyce, NSW AMES.
  3. National Forum: Learners in Transition. Adelaide. Speakers: Anne Burns, Loy Lysing, Stephen Moore, Ingrid Piller,  Macquarie University;  Howard Nicholas, Alan Williams, La Trobe University (consortium partner).
  4. National Forum: Orientation to Work and English in the Adult Migrant English Program. Canberra. Speakers: Ingrid Piller, Macquarie University; Alan Williams, La Trobe University (consortium partner).
  5. National conference for AMEP teachers: Work, Language and the Future, Mooloolaba, Qld.
  6. Convened and delivered the following teacher development workshops for AMEP Service Providers
    1. Assessment for low level learners
    2. Teaching Grammar (Systemic functional linguistics)
    3. Teaching disparate learner groups
    4. Culture, Communication and Language
    5. Culture, Communication and Language Teaching Pronunciation