2026 Queensland Asian Languages School Teacher Enhancement Workshop
Applications now open
The School of Languages and Cultures is offering a two-day workshop for Queensland 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-semesterbreak, 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 and 2025, 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: Let’s improve your handwriting; Building independent learners: how to choose reliable sources; Aboriginal Torres Strait Islander histories and cultures; Ainu and Okinawan histories, cultures and languages
- Chinese: Developing communicative competence in Chinese language classroom; AI-assisted oral tasks; Integrate culture into vocabulary teaching; Recent language change in spoken Mandarin; Handling heritage and non-heritage learners
- Korean: Understanding heritage language learners/speakers; Utilising textbooks and classroom interaction for heritage language learners; Media-based approaches to teaching Korean society; AI-based learning tools in Korean language education; Korean language assessment
The workshop will be delivered by staff members of School of Languages and Cultures:
- Japanese: Dr Kayoko Hashimoto, Mr Desmond Crump, Dr Lucila Gibo, Ms Haruka Fukuda, and Ms Chilmeg Elden
- Chinese: Dr Wendy Jiang, Dr Melody, Chang, Dr Angela Cook, Dr Jasmine Bai, Ms Qunyi Wang,
- Korean: Dr Min Jung Jee, A/Prof. Isaac Lee, Dr Narah Lee, Dr Ki Young Choi, and Ms Haeng A Kim.
Travel Support
Travel support ($800 x 5) will be available for teachers from regions more than 500 km away from Brisbane.
Applications
The application form includes questions for the participants. There is only space for 55 applicants across all languages. 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 4 September.
Enquiries
Dr Kayoko Hashimoto (Japanese) | E k.hashimoto@uq.edu.au
Dr Wendy Jiang (Chinese) | E w.jiang2@uq.edu.au
Dr Min Jung Jee (Korean) | E m.jee@uq.edu.au