Dr Adriana Diaz
Director of Teaching and Learning
Spanish Program
Senior Lecturer
School of Languages and Cultures
+61 7 336 56883
Researcher biography
I am originally from Buenos Aires, Argentina where I achieved a tertiary level degree as a teacher of English as a Foreign Language. In the year 2000, after completing these studies, I came to Australia as an international student to complete a BA (Hons) in Languages and Applied Linguistics. I then continued my postgraduate studies in the area of critical intercultural language pedagogy. For nearly two decades, I have been involved in teaching across Applied Linguistics, English, Italian and Spanish language programs in Australian higher education. I am a passionate languages and intercultural education scholar whose theoretical and empirical work centre on how insights from critical pedagogy and decolonial theories can help us un/re-learn the ways in which we engage with the world. In my teaching practice, I am committed to creating innovative and inclusive, liberatory learning experiences for language learners and fellow language educators to become critically aware of intersectional, power-bound dynamics in everyday interaction.
Publications
Books
Díaz, Adriana Raquel (2021). +JUNTXS: intermediate Spanish. Brisbane, Australia: The University of Queensland. doi: 10.14264/048629d
Díaz, Adriana Raquel (2021). JUNTXS: introductory Spanish. Brisbane, Australia: The University of Queensland. doi: 10.14264/b39d463
Crozet, Chantal and Diaz, Adriana R. (2020). Tertiary language teacher-researchers between ethics and politics: silent voices, unseized spaces. New York, United States: Routledge. doi: 10.4324/9780429505942
Diaz, Adriana Raquel (2013). Developing Critical Languaculture Pedagogies in Higher Education: Theory and Practice. Bristol, United Kingdom: Multilingual Matters. doi: 10.21832/9781783090365
Book Chapters
Ortiz Jiménez, Macarena and Díaz, Adriana Raquel (2023). Los cimientos que apuntalan y perpetúan la Babel monolingüe australiana. Retos en el sistema educativo ante la multiculturalidad y el plurilingüismo. Educación primaria y secundaria. (pp. 117-134) edited by María-Teresa del-Olmo-Ibáñez, María Fernanda Medina Beltrán and María Soledad Villarrubia Zúñiga. Barcelona, Spain: Octaedro.
Díaz, Adriana Raquel (2021). Intercultural understanding in early Spanish language learning: a policy perspective from Queensland, Australia. Early language learning policy in the 21st century: An international perspective. (pp. 111-129) edited by Subhan Zein and Maria R. Coady. Cham, Switzerland: Springer. doi: 10.1007/978-3-030-76251-3_5
Díaz, Adriana, Cordella, Marisa and Ramos, Fabiane (2021). Resistance to monoligualism: school principals and head of languages’ voices on factors that promote and deter languages education in Queensland, Australia. Language learning in Anglophone countries: challenges, practices, ways forward. (pp. 485-502) edited by Ursula Lanvers, Amy S. Thompson and Martin East. Cham, Switzerland: Palgrave Macmillan. doi: 10.1007/978-3-030-56654-8_24
Diaz, Adriana (2018). Stretching the global imaginaries of internationalisation: the critical role of languages education. Educational reciprocity and adaptivity : international students and stakeholders. (pp. 195-208) edited by Abe W. Ata, Ly Thi Tran and Indika Liyanage. Abingdon, Oxon, United Kingdom: Routledge. doi: 10.4324/9781315201412-11
Díaz, Adriana Raquel (2018). Challenging dominant epistemologies in higher education: the role of language in the geopolitics of knowledge (re)production. Multilingual education yearbook 2018: internationalization, stakeholders and multilingual education contexts. (pp. 21-36) edited by Indika Liyanage. Cham, Switzerland: Springer. doi: 10.1007/978-3-319-77655-2_2
Kennedy, Claire, Diaz, Adriana and Dasli, Maria (2017). Cosmopolitanism meets language education: considering objectives and strategies for a new pedagogy. The Critical Turn in Language and Intercultural Communication Pedagogy. (pp. 162-179) edited by Maria Dasli and Adriana Raquel Díaz. New York, NY United States: Routledge. doi: 10.4324/9781315667294-20
Dasli, Maria and Diaz, Adriana Raquel (2017). Epilogue. The critical turn in language and intercultural communication: Pedagogy theory, research and practice. (pp. 217-228) edited by Maria Dasli and Adriana Raquel Díaz. New York, NY United States: Routledge. doi: 10.4324/9781315667294
Dasli, Maria and Diaz, Adriana (2017). Prologue. The critical turn in language and intercultural communication pedagogy: theory, research and practice. (pp. xiii-xxiv) edited by Maria Dasli and Adriana Raquel Díaz. New York, NY United States: Taylor & Francis.
Díaz, Adriana Raquel and Dasli, Maria (2017). Tracing the 'critical' trajectory of language and intercultural communication pedagogy. The critical turn in language and intercultural communication pedagogy: theory, research and practice. (pp. 3-21) edited by Maria Dasli and Adriana Raquel Díaz. New York, NY United States: Routledge. doi: 10.4324/9781315667294
Guo, Xuhong, Diaz, Adriana and Liyanage, Indika (2016). Exploring the professional chasm in exam-driven English language education contexts. Global language policies and local educational practices and cultures. (pp. 215-232) edited by Shirley O'Neill and Henriette van Rensburg. Blue Mounds, WI United States: Deep University Press.
Guo, Xuhong, Liyanage, Indika, Bartlett, Brendan, Walker, Tony and Diaz, Adriana (2016). Uncertainty and reluctance in teaching taboo language: a case study of an experienced teacher of English as an additional language. Global language policies and local educational practices and cultures. (pp. 233-243) edited by Shirley O'Neill and Henriette van Rensburg. Blue Mounds, WI United States: Deep University Press.
Liyanage, Indika, Diaz, Adriana and Gurney, Laura (2016). Re-envisioning teacher education programmes for international students: towards an emancipatory and transformative educational stance. Sociological and philosophical perspectives on education in the Asia-Pacific Region. (pp. 165-178) edited by Chi-Ming Lam and Jae Park. Singapore: Springer. doi: 10.1007/978-981-287-940-0_11
Diaz, Adriana Raquel (2015). Developing interculturally-oriented teaching resources in CFL: meeting the challenge. Exploring innovative pedagogy in the teaching and learning of Chinese as a foreign language. (pp. 115-135) edited by Robyn Moloney and Hui Ling Xu. Singapore, Singapore: Springer. doi: 10.1007/978-981-287-772-7_7
Journal Articles
Veliz, Leonardo, Díaz, Adriana Raquel and Heinrichs, Danielle H. (2024). Introduction to the Special Issue: Pluriversalizing the Teaching and Learning of Spanish. Critical Multilingualism Studies, 11 (2), i-xvi.
Díaz, Adriana R., Fillmore, Naomi and Cordella, Marisa (2023). The (im)possibility of breaking the cycle of rippling circularities affecting Australian language education programs: a Queensland example. Language Learning in Higher Education, 13 (1), 29-49. doi: 10.1515/cercles-2023-2002
Veliz, Leonardo, Díaz, Adriana Raquel and Heinrichs, Danielle H. (2023). Introduction to the Special Issue: Pluriversalizing the Teaching and Learning of Spanish. Critical Multilingualism Studies, 11 (2), i-xvi.
Diaz, Adriana Raquel, Mejía, Glenda and Villamizar, Andrés Gabriel (2022). Gender neutral and non-binary language practices in the Spanish language classroom: tensions between disciplinary and societal changes. L2 Journal, 14 (3). doi: 10.5070/l214356302
Diaz, Adriana Raquel, Cordella, Marisa, Disbray, Samantha, Hanna, Barbara E. and Mikhaylova, Anna (2021). Reframing and hospicing mobility in higher education: challenges and possibilities. Intercultural Communication Education, 4 (1), 106-121. doi: 10.29140/ice.v4.n1.449
Gurney, Laura and Díaz, Adriana (2020). Coloniality, neoliberalism and the language textbook: unravelling the symbiosis in Spanish as a foreign language. Language, Culture and Society, 2 (2), 149-173. doi: 10.1075/lcs.20003.gur
Díaz, Adriana Raquel and Callahan, Laura (2020). Intercultural communicative competence and Spanish heritage language speakers: an overview from the U.S., Australia and Europe. Journal of Spanish Language Teaching, 7 (2), 1-13. doi: 10.1080/23247797.2020.1847408
Moore, Paul J. and Díaz, Adriana (2019). Conceptualizing language, culture and intercultural communication in higher education languages programs. Australian Review of Applied Linguistics, 42 (2), 192-213. doi: 10.1075/aral.00024.moo
Diaz, Adriana Raquel and Moore, Paul J. (2018). (Re)imagining a course in language and intercultural communication for the 21st century. Intercultural Communication Education, 1 (3), 84-99. doi: 10.29140/ice.v1n3.87
Diaz, Adriana Raquel (2018). Dialogic pedagogy: the importance of dialogue in teaching and learning. Language and Intercultural Communication, 18 (2), 277-279. doi: 10.1080/14708477.2017.1287116
Diaz, Adriana Raquel (2016). Intercultural language teaching and learning. Language and Intercultural Communication, 16 (1), 117-119. doi: 10.1080/14708477.2015.1059551
Diaz, Adriana and Hortiguera, Hugo (2016). TELL-ING IT LIKE IT IS: Practical implications from a critical stance on technology-enhanced language learning. Revista de Lenguas para Fines Específicos, 22 (1), 54-79. doi: 10.20420/rlfe.2016.0090
Diaz, Adriana, Hortiguera, Hugo and Espinoza Vera, Marcia (2015). Quality assurance and foreign languages - Reflecting on oral assessment practices in two university Spanish language programs in Australia. Journal of University Teaching & Learning Practice, 12 (3).
Hortiguera, Hugo and Diaz, Adriana (2014). Extendiendo los muros de la clase de ELE: una aproximación (neuro) cognitiva a través de la tecnología. MarcoELE: revista de didactica, 19 (July-December).
Diaz, Adriana (2013). Intercultural understanding and professional learning through critical engagement. Babel, 48 (1), 12-19.
Liddicoat, Anthony J. and Diaz, Adriana (2008). Engaging with diversity: the construction of policy for intercultural education in Italy. Intercultural Education, 19 (2), 137-150. doi: 10.1080/14675980801889666
Conference Paper
Diaz, Adriana (2012). Intercultural competence through language education in Australian higher education: Mission (im)possible?. LCNAU's Inaugural Colloquium, Melbourne, VIC Australia, 26-28 September 2011. Melbourne: Languages and Cultures Network for Australian Universities (LCNAU).
Research Report
Iwashita, Noriko, Rochecouste, Judith, Diaz, Adriana, Hanna, Barbara, Kennett, Belinda and Kim, Sun Hee Ok (2016). Languages literature review: Senior syllabus redevelopment. South Brisbane, Australia: Queensland Curriculum and Assessment Authority.