Time | Program |
8:45am – 9:15am | Registration at foyer in front of Room 132 |
9:15am – 9:45am | Opening ceremony - Dr Wendy Jiang (Organiser)
- Prof Greg Hainge (Head, UQ School of Languages and Cultures)
- Ms Suyun Li (Deputy Consul-General of China, Brisbane)
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9:45am – 10:45am | Keynote Speaker Chair: Wendy Jiang (UQ) “Empowering Language Education: Navigating Challenges and Embracing Innovation in Australian Asian Language Studies” by Associate Professor Xiaoping Gao (The University of Wollongong) |
10:50am – 12:20pm | Teacher Pathways Chair: Kayoko Hashimoto (UQ) - “Japanese Language Teachers in Queensland: Pathways to Teaching and Individual Trajectories - Preliminary Findings” by Dr Kumiko Katayama (Griffith University)
- “Becoming a university Vietnamese language teacher: New identity construction” by Thy Le (University of Aukland)
- “Addressing the Challenges in Quality Teacher Training for Chinese Language Educators in Queensland” by Maggie Jin (St. Peters Lutheran College)
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12:20pm – 1:20pm | Lunch at foyer |
1:20pm – 2:50pm | Chinese language learning in Australia Chair: Min Jung Jee (UQ) - "Exploring Multilingual Motivational Self Systems: Narratives of Post-Tertiary Adult Learners' Multilingual Selves and Chinese Language Learning Motivation" by Xiaoli Li (Monash University)
- “Pragmatic development of Australian learners of Chinese as a foreign language: A longitudinal study of internal modifiers” by Lucy Li (University of Tasmania)
- “Chinese language assessments at Secondary schools in Queensland and Victoria – A lens on Chinese Senior External Assessment for University entrance” by Tracy Hong (UQ)
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2:50pm – 4:20pm | Community Language Learning Chair: Wendy Jiang - “Chinese families’ experiences and views about learning Chinese for home language maintenance in Australia” by Wei Wei (Flinders University)
- “The role of the Korean ethnic church in the proliferation of the Korean language in Australia” by Jung Soon Kim (UQ)
- “Challenges of Vietnamese Language Teaching in Australian context” by Chau Nguyen (IML UQ)
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4:20pm – 4:30pm | Closing remarks |
