2024 QLD Asian Languages School Teacher Enhancement Workshop
Applications are now open!
When: 9am-4pm Friday and Saturday 27 & 28 September 2024,
Where: Forgan Smith Building (01), Rooms 302, 303, 301, 356 & 348
The School of Languages and Cultures is offering a two-day workshop for QLD school teachers of Asian languages (Japanese, Chinese and Korean*) to enhance teaching and language skills at all levels. During the School Term break and UQ mid-term break, teachers will have opportunities to reflect on pedagogy as well as to brush up on Japanese, Chinese or Korean. We hope the workshop will inspire participants through various activities that use some of the university course materials. Due to the successful delivery of the workshop for Japanese language teachers since 2021, it is extended to Chinese and Korean teachers this year.
*For Korean teachers it is a one-day workshop.
The workshop is organised by the School of Languages and Cultures and generously funded by the J M Campbell Bequest.
Participants
The workshop is open to all school teachers of Japanese, Chinese and Korean in QLD (state, independent, private and community). Both full-time and part-time teachers are eligible. Japanese and Chinese teachers must be able to attend both days.
This is a free workshop with no participation fee. Lunch will be provided. Certificate will be presented at the end of the workshop.
Program
All sessions will be conducted mainly in the target language except the common sessions for all teachers in Day1. The workshop starts with an overview of UQ programs and student pathways followed by five topic-based activities such as:
- Japanese: classroom instructional languages; interpreting role play; online self-learning kanji modules; learning grammar with peers; Japanese sense of humour (rakugo)
- Chinese: Integrating culture into teaching Chinese; designing technology assisted language learning (TALL) tasks; teaching Chinese tones; teaching Chinese radicals and characters; building Chinese sentences with rules and fun
- Korean: teaching politeness; digital learning tools
The workshop will be delivered by staff members of School of Languages and Cultures:
- Japanese: Dr Kayoko Hashimoto, Ms Yukiko Rikitake, and Mr Takeshi Onodera.
- Chinese: Dr Wendy Jiang, Dr Chunxuan Shen, Dr Guangli Li and Ms Xiaoji (Annie) Wang
- Korean: Dr Min Jung Jee, Dr Narah Lee, and Dr Ki Young Choi
Scholarships
Travel scholarship ($800 x 5) will be available for teachers from regions more than 500 km away from Brisbane.
Application
The application form includes questions for the participants. There is only space for 55 applicants for all languages to attend. If there are more than 55 applications, decisions will be made based on the answers to the application questions. The due date for submissions is 5pm Friday 6 September.
Enquiries
For all queries, please contact the workshop organising team:
- Dr Kayoko Hashimoto (Japanese) k.hashimoto@uq.edu.au
- Dr Wendy Jiang (Chinese) w.jiang2@uq.edu.au
- Dr Min Jung Jee (Korean) m.jee@uq.edu.au
About Japanese Language Teacher Study Group
In our monthly online study group, teachers across QLD gather and forge strong bonds with each other while gaining valuable insights from real classroom experiences and cutting-edge language teaching approaches. Our monthly sessions also cover a wide variety of topics tailored to teachers' interests, presented through different formats, including presentations, discussions, lectures and more.
Visit our website to find out more about the program.
