School of Languages and Cultures

Program

Empowering Asian Language Speakers Symposium

Friday, 4 July 2025 | 9am – 4:40pm

Sir Llew Edwards Building (14), Room 132 & Foyer, and Online via Zoom

Time

Session

8:30 – 9:00 AM

Registration

9:00 – 9:20 AM

Welcome and Opening Remarks:

  • Dr Min Jung Jee (organiser)
  • Prof. Greg Hainge (Head, UQ School of Languages and Cultures)
  • Mr Seong-Yeon Kim (Consul-General of Korea, Brisbane)

9:20 – 10:10 AM

(40 min. + 10 min. Q&A)

Keynote Speaker 

Chair: Min Jung Jee (UQ)

“Fostering Heritage Language Practices in Asian Communities: Perspectives from Korean Teachers in Australia” by Dr Seong-Chul Shin (UNSW)

Session 1

10:15 – 11:55 AM

(20 min. + 5 min. Q&A)

 

 

  1. 10:15 – 10:40 AM
  2. 10:40 – 11:05 AM
  3. 11:05 – 11:30 AM
  4. 11:30 – 11:55 AM

Session 1: Paper Presentations

Chair: Min Jung Jee (UQ)

  1. “Teaching Arabic in South Korea: Straddling Global Aspirations and Local Ideologies” by Jung Min Seo (HUFS)
  2. “Repositioning Assessment as a Learning Opportunity: Student-Centred Socratic Questioning in the Senior External Korean Language Exam” by Haeng A Kim (UQ)
  3. Sinhala Language Recognition in Queensland Senior Curriculum” by Aruni Arachchige (Yasodhara Sinhala School)
  4. "My Vietnamese” - How Vietnamese Textbooks for Heritage Language Learners Shape their Cultural Understanding” by Nguyen Duong (Yeu Tieng Viet Language School) & Hao Tran (UQ) 

12:00– 1:00 PM

Lunch at the foyer

1:00 – 1:50 PM

Roundtable (50min.)

 

 

Roundtable Discussion

Facilitator: Kayoko Hashimoto (UQ)
Community Language Schools in Queensland

Discussants:

  • Angela Wang & Grace Cao (MiaoMiao Chinese School)
  • Richard Yang (Brisbane Chinese Language School)
  • Makiko Rowlinson (Japanese School of Queensland, Gold Coast)
  • Youngeun Kim & Sunmi SON (Brisbane Korean Central Presbyterian Church Korean language School)
  • Nguyen Duong (Yeu Tieng Viet Language School)

Session 2

1:55 PM – 2:45 PM

(20 min. + 5 min. Q&A)

 

  1. 1:55 – 2:20 PM
  2. 2:20 – 2:45 PM

Session 2: Paper Presentations

Chair: Jung Min Seo (HUFS)

  1. “Who’s Teaching Japanese? Unpacking the Experiences of Japanese Language Teachers in Queensland” by Takeshi Onodera (UQ)
  2. “Beyond Employability: What Drives Students to Learn Japanese in Queensland Secondary Schools?” by Orié Green (UQ)

Session 3

2:50 – 4:20 PM

(20 min. + 5 min. Q&A)

 

  1. 2:50 – 3:15 PM
  2. 3:15 – 3:40 PM
  3. 3:40 – 4:05 PM
  4. 4:05 – 4:30 PM

 

Session 3: Paper Presentations

Chair: Wendy Jiang (UQ)

  1. “Maintenance and Development of Chinese as a Home Language: Perspectives and Practices of Chinese Families” by Wei Wei (Flinders University)
  2. “Learning Chinese as a Heritage Language Through Online Classes: Educational Affordances, Identity Construction, and Cultural Continuity” by Chunxuan Shen (UQ)
  3. “Language Ideology and Identity Construction Among Multilingual Malaysian-Chinese Parents and Adolescent Children in New Zealand” by Phebe Ning Ruoh Ha (University of Auckland)
  4. “Factors Influencing Australian Novice Chinese Language Learners’ Satisfaction of Self-directed Mobile Learning” by Xiaoji (Annie) Wang (UQ)

4:30 – 4:40 PM

Closing remarks

 

 

Contact

Contact the symposium organiser, Dr Min Jung Jee, with any enquiries at m.jee@uq.edu.au.