2025 QLD Asian Languages School Teacher Enhancement Workshop
Applications are now open!
When: 9am-4pm Thursday and Friday 2-3 Oct 2025
Where: Forgan Smith Building (01), Rooms E302, E303, E301 & E356
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 the three languages in 2024, we are happy to offer the workshop again this year.
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. Participating 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 first common session for all teachers. The workshop starts with an overview of UQ programs and student pathways followed by five topic-based activities such as:
- Japanese: classroom instructional languages; Indigenising curriculum; Proverbs; Humour and humility; Let’s improve your handwriting;
- Chinese: From strokes to stories: Engaging strategies in teaching Chinese characters to CFL learners; Playing around with Chinese Sentence Structures: rules, Fun, and Creativity; Navigating QCAA assessments in Chinese: From General to Extension; Unlocking the Potential of GenAI Tools: Teaching Chinese tones to L2 learners;
- Korean: Understanding Heritage Language Learners/Speakers; Utilising Textbooks and Classroom Interaction for Heritage Language Learners; Language Meets Culture: Media-Based Approaches to Teaching Korean Society; AI-Based Learning Tools in Korean Language Education; Making Assessment Work for Learning: An Assessment Literacy Workshop for Korean Language Educators
The workshop will be delivered by staff members of School of Languages and Cultures:
- Japanese: Dr Kayoko Hashimoto, Ms Chilmeg Elden, and Mr Takeshi Onodera.
- Chinese: Dr Wendy Jiang, Dr Chunxuan Shen, Dr Guangli Li, Ms Annie Wang from SLC and Ms Yang Song from John Paul College
- Korean: Dr Min Jung Jee, A/Prof. Isaac Lee, Dr Narah Lee, Dr Ki Young Choi, and Ms Haeng A Kim
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. Application submission link: https://forms.office.com/r/ckxm9P9fjj. The due date for submissions is 5pm Friday 5 September. 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
