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2025 April – Inaugural Meeting of ACTA’s new Teacher Education Consultancy Group

The inaugural meeting of ACTA’s new Teacher Education Consultancy Group took place on 15 April 2025.  Co-convenors, ACTA President, Chris Davison and ACTA Vice President, Ronan Kelly, welcomed members from universities across Australia. The meeting began with a presentation by Carly Steel (with Julian Chen, Kim Andreassen, Toni Dobinson, Stephanie Dryden, Curtin University; Leonardo Veliz, […]

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2024 December- The State of EAL/D Education in Schools National Survey is now open until 20 December!

Opportunity to participate in a national research project: Deadline extended!   Great news! The State of EAL/D Education in Schools National Survey deadline has been extended. You now have until 20 December to take the survey.  Investigating the state of English as an additional language/dialect (EAL/D) education in Australian schools and tracing EAL/D teaching courses at

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2024 March- ANNOUNCEMENT: ACTA Research Grant Winner

ACTA is delighted to announce the winner of their 2023-2024 research grant of $10000, awarded to the submission that best speaks to ACTA’s national interests and priorities in the EAL/D field.  Congratulations to the following researchers: Toni Dobinson- Curtin University, WA Carly Steele – Curtin University, WA Julian Chen – Curtin University, WA Leonardo Veliz – University

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2021 August- Recent submission to QITE Review

MEDIA RELEASE – 17 AUGUST, 2021 TEACHER EDUCATION FAILS MORE THAN HALF A MILLION ENGLISH LANGUAGE LEARNERS IN AUSTRALIAN SCHOOLS Teacher education is failing to respond to the widespread linguistic diversity of Australian schools, according to the recent submission to the Department of Education, Skills and Employment Quality Initial Teacher Education Review by the Australian

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