International Conference on Community/Heritage Language Education

This event will be held entirely online

Sydney Institute of Community Languages Education
Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, The University of Sydney

This 3-day conference featuring international guest speakers, renowned Australian researchers and experienced classroom practitioners will explore community/heritage language education and its key role in maintaining and developing intergenerational linguistic and cultural understandings. The conference will bring together researchers, school leaders, teachers, community members, parents and students.

The entire Conference Program (pdf, 486kB) can be downloaded by clicking on the following link or copying it into your browser:

https://www.sydney.edu.au/content/dam/corporate/documents/faculty-of-arts-and-social-sciences/research/research-centres-institutes-groups/sicle/conference-program.pdf

Accessibility

All conference sessions in English will be live captioned and all sessions will be recorded and available to delegates after the conference. We are committed to making the conference accessible. If you are a user of Auslan please contact conference organisers and we will arrange Auslan interpreters for the sessions you want to attend.

Featured speakers

Joseph Lo Bianco is Professor of Language and Literacy Education at the Melbourne Graduate School of Education. Prior to his current role, he was Chief Executive of the National Languages and Literacy Institute of Australia.

Maria Carreira is a professor at the University of California. She is also co-director of the National Heritage Language Resource Center. Her research focuses on heritage languages, particularly Spanish in the US as well as the less commonly taught languages. Her recent work focuses on identity, resilience, and heritage language development and maintenance. She is also chair of the SAT Spanish Committee, and Associate Editor of Hispania.

Vicky Macleroy is a Reader in Education and Head of the Centre for Language, Culture and Learning at Goldsmiths, University of London. Vicky teaches on undergraduate, PGCE English and PGCE Media with English, MA and MPhil/PhD including joint programs across Educational Studies and English and Comparative Literature departments.

Mahmoud Al-Batal is Professor of Arabic at the American University in Beirut. He holds a BA in Arabic Language and Literature from the Lebanese University in Beirut, and an MA and PhD in Arabic Linguistics from the University of Michigan in the US.

Ingrid Piller is Distinguished Professor of Applied Linguistics at Macquarie University, Sydney. She is an applied sociolinguist with research expertise in intercultural communication, language learning, multilingualism and bilingual education.

Angela Scarino is Associate Professor in Applied Linguistics and Director of the Research Centre for Languages and Cultures, University of South Australia. She has research expertise is in languages education in linguistically and culturally diverse societies; second-language learning and assessment within an intercultural orientation and second-language teacher education.

Conference content

This conference explores community/heritage language education worldwide and its key role as  a complementary sector for languages provision. The conference will be organised in two strands. Strand 1 will focus on the latest research into community/heritage languages education. Strand 2 will focus on effective classroom practice. Research and Classroom Practice sessions will explore:

Symposia will be scheduled in special sessions of the conference program

A hour-by-hour program is published below.