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ACTA International Conference Announcement: Save the date!
Sydney, Australia
1 - 3 October 2026 The next International ACTA conference will be hosted by ATESOL NSW and will be held in Sydney. Updates will be posted at the web link below as they become available. In the meantime, mark your calendars!
Theme: The theme: Sharing our Future
November ACTA Council Meeting
Online
20 November 2025 7pm (AEST/AEDT)
August ACTA Council Meeting
Online
14 August 2025 7pm (AEST/AEDT)
May ACTA Council Meeting
Online
15 May 2025 7pm (AEST/AEDT)
March ACTA AGM & council meeting
Online
20 March 2025 7pm (AEST/AEDT) Followed by Council Meeting
February ACTA Council Meeting
Online
6 February 2025 7pm (AEST/AEDT)
TESOL International Professional Learning Opportunity: Digital literacy (schools)
Online
2 December 2024 *Not free
Theme: Our friends at TESOL International are offering some professional learning on 'Amplifying Digital Literacy and Equity', between December 2024 and March 2025. They have joined forces with T-Mobile to create an online community of pre-K-12 professionals to boost digital literacy skills for multilingual learners of English (MLEs) in classrooms and at home! Times work well with Australian time zones.
CHASS/ALAA/Curtin Symposium: Calling HDR and early career researchers!
Perth and online
29 November 2024 Funded by the Congress of Humanities and Social Sciences (CHASS), BEPerth, and Applied Linguistics Association of Australia (ALAA), this one-day symposium will be hosted by the Discipline of Applied Linguistics, TESOL, and Languages at the School of Education, Curtin University.
Theme: This event caters exclusively to Higher Degree by Research (HDR) students and early career researchers, who are keen to network with like-minded colleagues and know more about how to publish and advance career development in academia and beyond.
Please encourage Postgraduate students you know to present their research studies. Scholarships and registration fee waivers are also available for interstate travelers and non-ALAA members.
The Applied Linguistics ALAA/ALANZ/ALTAANZ Conference 2024
University of Tasmania, Launceston, Tasmania
25 - 27 November 2024
Theme: The conference theme is: Applied linguistics for a just society: Advancing equity, access, and opportunity.
TasTESOL Conference
Launceston, Tasmania
23 November 2024
Theme: TasTESOL are pleased to announce that they will be hosting a face-to-face conference on Saturday the 23rd November 2024 in Launceston, Tasmania. The theme this year will be: Shaping the Future: English Language Teaching in Tomorrow’s World. They are now inviting expressions of interest to offer a workshop at the conference.
November ACTA Council Meeting
Online
21 November 2024 7 - 9pm AEST
Webinar: Wait, Don’t just translate!
Online
8 November 2024 10am Sydney time
Theme: Molloy University is holding an online webinar that is open to all! The webinar is about supporting English language learners/ multilingual learners at the earliest stages of language development who may present special challenges for all educators. This workshop is designed to take an asset-based approach to working with newcomers and to guide participants in unpack multiple scaffolding approaches to address the unique needs of these students. The ultimate goal is to ensure that translation does not become the "go-to" or only strategy utilized with this population.
“Reciprocal Multilingual Learning with EAL/D students” presented by Mei French
Online
2 - 2 November 2024 2-4pm. ATESOL ACT invites you to join this exciting webinar.
Theme: Principles for multilingual pedagogies, developed through research and practice, that bring engaging, effective and empowering learning into EALD and mainstream classrooms for students of all ages (primary to adult)
Zoom forum on The SEE Program and the Empowering Afghan Women Project
Online
26 - 26 August 2024 Starts at 5pm AEST
Theme: TasTESOL invites you to attend a forum conducted by Mat Hines. The topic: The SEE Program and the Empowering Afghan Women Project.
The forum is free for TESOL association members, $10 for students, and $15 for non-members. Please RSVP and pay by August 23 to contact.
August ACTA Council Meeting
Online
15 August 2024 7 - 9pm AEST
Webinar with Misty Adoniou
Online
1 August 2024 3.30-4.30 ACST
Theme: In this webinar (which is free for members of state and territory TESOL associations), Dr Misty Adoniou presents EAL/D reading strategies and activities which support students to:
• Build on their oral language – learners' reading skills progress when they learn how to decode words in their existing vocabulary.
• Learn new vocabulary – understanding the meaning of words helps students to comprehend and decode what they read.
• Understand English grammar – through listening, reading and responding to rich engaging texts EAL/D learners develop their understanding of English grammar.
• Make connections to self – students are motivated to read texts which reflect their life experiences and identities.
Register for this wonderful webinar at the link below.
2024 Foundation for Learning and Literacy Literature Symposium
Online
3 July 2024
Theme: In the coming months, the Foundation for Learning and Literacy will present a series of video presentations and podcasts produced by representatives of organisations whose primary work is with children and young people, literacy and drama. ACTA is proud to be a partner. Click on the link below to read more about the exciting presentations and our very own video! You can also register to be informed about these videos, via this link.
TasTESOL forum with Rosalie Martin
Zoom
28 May 2024 RSVP by Friday 24th May.
Theme: TasTESOL invites you to their first forum for the year with Rosalie Martin presenting her work on “the impact of trauma on learning language, especially in the context of our students – what we see but may not recognise in our classrooms; and identifying how and when trauma impacts learning and what strategies may be helpful to deliver learning effectively.” More at the TasTESOL web site.
May ACTA Council Meeting
Online
16 May 2024 7 - 9pm AEST
Social and Citizenship Education Association of Australia (SCEAA) CEAA 2024 Conference
Canberra, ACT
19 - 20 April 2024
Theme: Curriculum, Community and Beyond: Future directions in citizenship education.Academics, researchers, teachers and other educators will gather together to explore the theme of Curriculum, Community, and Beyond: Future Directions in Citizenship Education.
2024 April- Refugee Youth AMEP Consultation
Online
16 April 2024 2pm AEST
Theme: Join us to share your thoughts on how young people from refugee backgrounds experience learning English in the Adult Migrant English Program.
March ACTA Council Meeting
Online
21 March 2024 7 - 9pm AEST
February ACTA Council meeting
Online
8 February 2024 7 - 9pm AEST
SA TESOL End of Year and Networking Event 2023
Duke of Brunswick Hotel, 207 Gilbert Street Adelaide
23 November 2023 From 6pm
ACTA Councillors’ Meeting
Online
16 November 2023 Zoom link to be provided to councillors
‘Engaging Learners’ for teachers working in the SEE program
Virtual
15 November 2023 4:30 - 5:30pm AEST
2023 VicTESOL Symposium
Victorian Academy of Teaching and Leadership
13 October 2023 8:00am - 4:00pm AEST
Theme: Sustaining EAL Expertise: Voices and Viewpoints from the Field
Adding the EAL/D extra to Mainstream Classroom Approaches. Presented by Dr Denise Angelo
Online
20 September 2023 3:30 - 5:00pm (CST)
ACTA Councillors’ Meeting
Online
14 September 2023 Zoom link to be provided to councillors
Teaching Spelling and Vocabulary Through Meaning. Presented by Dr Misty Adoniou.
Online
14 September 2023 3:30 - 5:00pm (CST)
The role of schools in supporting settlement: Focusing on wellbeing in migrant and refugee education.
Virtual
30 August 2023 3:30 - 5:00pm AEST
Digital Literacies in EAL Special Interest Group (SIG)
Virtual
23 August 2023 4:00 - 5:00pm AEST
Reciprocal Multilingual Learning in Secondary Classrooms – with Dr. Mei French
Online
2 August 2023 3:30 - 5:00pm (ACST)
Theme: In this session Dr French will introduce teachers to Reciprocal Multilingual Learning, a model of teaching developed from research into how multilingual students use their linguistic repertoires in their lives and learning.
ACTA Councillors’ Meeting
Online
13 July 2023 Zoom link to be provided to councillors
SATESOL 2023 mini-conference and AGM
Living Choice Fullarton; 123 FisherStreet, Fullarton SA
10 June 2023 9:15 - 1:30pm ACST
LMERC Resourcing Event
Languages and Multicultural Education Resource Centre (LMERC) library, Level 1, 189 Faraday Street, Carlton
13 April 2023 4:30 - 6:00pm
Teaching EAL/D through the Arts
The National Gallery of Victoria (NGV International), 180 St Kilda Rd, St Kilda, Victoria
17 March 2023 3:00pm - 6:00pm
Digital literacy skills for adult EAL migrant and refugee learners within the community-based education setting
Online
16 March 2023 4:00 - 5:00pm AEST
Effective implementation of translanguaging pedagogy in TESOL classrooms
Online
9 March 2023 4:00pm – 5:00pm AEST
Joint Construction and Guided Instruction: Benefits for Tertiary English Language Learners
Online
6 March 2023 5 - 5:45pm AET
SA TESOL, with Judith Tomas, Presents: Cultural Awareness for Educators
Education Development Corporation (EDC), Milner Street, Hindmarsh SA 5007
24 - 24 November 2022 5:15 - 7:30pm (ACST)
Developing English through an understanding of how languages work
Online
17 November 2022 4:00pm - 5:00pm AEST
ACTA Council Meeting – November
Online
15 November 2022 7:00 - 9:00pm AEST
2022 VicTESOL Symposium: Professional Identity in TESOL-Finding the Common Ground
Victorian Academy of Teaching and Leadership, 603-615 Queensberry St, North Melbourne, Victoria
11 November 2022 8:30 - 4:00pm AEST
Challenges and possibilities in using The Victorian Curriculum F-10: EAL in a Year 7 science unit: A focus on word knowledge.
Online
10 November 2022 4:30 - 5:30pm AEST
AMEP Virtual Roadshow – Showcasing 3 New Resources
Online
26 - 26 October 2022 3 - 4pm AEST
***Rescheduled Date***Educator’s Tour of the Immigration Museum
On site - Immigration Museum, 400 Flinders St, Melbourne, Victoria 3000
18 October 2022 4:30 - 6:00pm AEST
AMEP Virtual Roadshow – Resources for the EAL Framework
Online
12 October 2022 4:30 - 5:30pm AEST
ACTA International Conference 2022
Brisbane, Queensland
26 - 28 September 2022
Theme: Pushing the Boundaries
ACTA Council Meeting – September
ACTA Conference
25 September 2022 Time TBA
EAL Meet & Teach with NGV (NGV Resourcing Event 2)
Online
15 September 2022 4:00pm - 5:00pm AEST
EAL Framework 101 Session 3: Teaching a Unit (Adult sector)
Online
14 September 2022 4:30 pm - 6:00 pm AEST
Colony to Nation for EAL teaching and learning (NGV Resourcing Event 1)
Online
8 September 2022 4:00 - 5:00pm AEST
LMERC Resourcing Event
Languages and Multicultural Educational Resource Centre (LMERC), Level 1, CO.AS.IT Building, 189 Faraday St Carlton, Melbourne, Victoria 3053
1 September 2022 4:30 - 6:00pm
Natasha Koroi: ‘Belonging’ and ‘connectedness’ in Kakadu
Online
11 August 2022 4:00 - 5:00pm AEST
Theme: International Day of the World’s Indigenous peoples
ACTA Council Meeting – August
Online
11 August 2022 7:00 - 9:00pm AEST
Australian Institute of Family Studies: Working with children who are experiencing or engaging in bullying behaviour
Online
10 August 2022 1:00 - 2:00pm (AEST)
Theme: Childhood bullying is a complex social issue and our understanding of bullying dynamics has evolved over time. It is important for practitioners to understand children’s knowledge and perspectives on childhood bullying so that they can better support them.
Moving Forward with the ACTA National Roadmap for English as an Additional Language or Dialect (EAL/D) Education in Schools – Interest Groups
Online
18 July 2022 4:00 - 5:00pm AEST
Dr Helen Harper: Talking with intent: Scaffolding academic language with EAL/D learners
Online
22 June 2022 4:00 - 5:00pm AEST
Theme: World Refugee Day
Cindy Valdez-Adams: Designing learning for vocabulary development
Online
21 June 2022 4:00 - 5:00pm AEST
Theme: World Refugee Day
Dr Gill Pennington & Margaret Turnbull: The Power of talk
Online
20 June 2022 4:00 - 5:00pm AEST
Theme: World Refugee Day
ACTA Council Meeting – June
Online
9 June 2022 7:00 - 9:00pm AEST
Incorporating EAL/D students’ home languages and cultures into mainstream curriculum teaching and learning at school: Findings from a design-based Queensland study
Online
9 June 2022 4:30 - 6:00pm AEST
EAL Frameworks 101 (2): How to approach delivery and assessment of a group of units
Online
8 June 2022 4:30 - 6:00pm
Immigration Museum and VicTESOL: Integrating culture and language for EAL learners
Online
19 May 2022 4:00 - 5:00pm AEST
Looking ahead: an overview of the new VCE English and EAL study design and planning for Units 1 & 2 in 2023
Online
10 May 2022 4:00 - 5:00pm AEST
Languages in Early Childhood Education – Launch of special Early Childhood Education edition ‘TESOL in Context’
Online
5 May 2022 7:00 - 8:00pm AEST
Foundation Skills Frameworks Review Project: Forum 2
Online
31 March 2022 4 to 5pm AEDT
Theme: This forum gives you an opportunity to expand on your responses to the online survey and provide more specific feedback relating to the frameworks.
Associate Professor Jacqueline D’warte: Building on and enhancing Harmony Day: Classroom strategies and activities for learning about languages and literacies with young people.
Online
24 March 2022 4:00 - 5:00 pm (AEDT)
Theme: Harmony Day
Robyn Johnson; Caitlin Espinoza; Bess Wassman: How we support children to learn to read with both high challenge and high support
Online
22 March 2022 4:00 - 5:00 pm (AEDT)
Theme: Harmony Day
Dr Gill Pennington & Margaret Turnbull: Effective EAL/D teaching is characterised by features of high challenge and high support: a response to the Research Report ‘English as an additional language or dialect (EAL/D) effective school practices’
Online
21 March 2022 4:00 - 5:00pm (AEDT)
Theme: Harmony Day
Foundation Skills Frameworks Review Project: Forum 1
Online
17 March 2022 4 to 5pm AEDT
Theme: An information session on the project and its discovery phase findings. An opportunity to ask questions about the project (live or via chat).
Foundation Skills Frameworks Review Project Survey
Online
11 - 1 April 2022
Theme: The Australian Core Skills Framework (ACSF) and Digital Literacy Skills Framework (DLSF) are descriptive frameworks that give us a common language and a set of reference points for discussing, learning, reading, writing, oral communication, numeracy and digital literacy skills. They are used in diverse programs and in a range of product and policy development and workforce capability contexts.
Australian Core Skills Framework (ACSF)
Digital Literacy Skills Framework (DLSF)
The Department has commissioned the Australian Council for Educational Research (ACER) to review the ACSF and DLSF.
Phase 2 of the project is consultation- which includes a survey of stakeholders.
Adult TESOL Event – EAL Framework 101: A Beginner’s Guide to the Victorian EAL Framework Curriculum
Online
9 March 2022 4:30 - 6:00pm (AEDT)
Teaching, Learning and Belonging in the Multilingual Classroom – Exploring the Resources of the National Museum of Australia in Canberra
Online
24 February 2022 5:00pm - 6:30pm AEST
ALTAANZ 2020 – Association for Language Testing and Assessment of Australia and New Zealand
Melbourne, Vic
November 2021 (date to be announced)
Theme: Intersections, Crossings and Barriers
Panel Discussion – Assessment and Reporting for EAL students in primary and secondary schools
Online
18 November 2021 4 - 5pm (AEDT)
TESOL in Context- Growing TESOL in Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander contexts
Online
8 November 2021 4:30pm - 6:00pm AEST
Towards a model for a hybrid delivery of EAL (Edwin Creely, Katrina Tour, Peter Waterhouse & Elizabeth Keenan)
Online
4 November 2021 4:00 - 5:30pm AEST
The Way Forward: How COVID has changed adult EAL delivery
Online
19 October 2021 4:00 - 5:30pm AEST
CLESOL Conference – Community Languages and English for Speakers of Other Languages
Auckland, NZ
8 - 10 October 2021
Theme: Weave the language, weave the people -
Whiria the reo, whiria the tangata
“Your story: Write it with me” (3) / Joanne Rossbridge & Kathy Rushton
Online
15 September 2021 5:30-7:30 pm AEST
Theme: International Day of the World’s Indigenous peoples
VicTESOL – Designing culturally responsive and culturally sustaining pedagogy for struggling adolescent and adult EAL learners (Dr Andrea DeCapua)
Online
14 September 2021 9 - 10:30am AEST
VicTESOL Symposium 2021 – TESOL in a time of COVID: implications and possibilities
Online
31 August 2021 4 - 5:30pm AEST
Immigration Museum and VicTESOL: Integrating culture and language for EAL learners
Online
25 August 2021 4 - 5pm AEST
QATESOL – Talk for Learning: Integrating dialogic teaching principles in the beginner-level English language classroom (presented by Skye Playsted)
Online
24 August 2021 4:30-5:30pm AEST
SATESOL – Issues of identity and multiculturalism in the National Portrait Gallery
Online
19 August 2021 4:30pm - 5:30pm (ACST)
Revitalisation and maintenance of Aboriginal languages / Aboriginal teachers from Central Australia and NSW with Susan Poetsch
Online
12 August 2021 5:30-6:30 pm AEST
Theme: International Day of the World’s Indigenous peoples
“Your story: read it to me” (2) / Joanne Rossbridge & Kathy Rushton
Online
11 August 2021 5:30-7:30 pm AEST
Theme: International Day of the World’s Indigenous peoples
Multilingual Storyboxes in the EAL/D Classroom / Dr Gill Pennington
Online
10 August 2021 5:30-6:30 pm (AEST)
Theme: International Day of the World’s Indigenous peoples
Colony to Nation – Bridging the Gap for EAL Learners – Presented by NGV Learn (National Gallery of Victoria) and VicTESOL
Online
22 July 2021 4:00-5:30 pm AEST
Shared experiences in teaching and supporting refugee students / Kim Cootes, Dr Gill Pennington & Cindy Valdez-Adams
Online
17 June 2021 5:30-6:30 pm AEST
Theme: World Refugee Day
Teaching Refugees – The Way Forward / Dorothy Hoddinott AO
Online
16 June 2021 5:30-6:30 pm AEST
Theme: World Refugee Day
“Your story: Show it to me” A 3-part online course (1) / Joanne Rossbridge & Kathy Rushton
Online
15 June 2021 5:30-7:30 pm AEST
Theme: World Refugee Day
Developing Language Through the Arts / Cindy Valdez-Adams
Online
14 June 2021 5:30-6:30 pm AEST
Theme: World Refugee Day
ATESOL ACT Briefing Meeting to Discuss Changes to the AMEP
Online
9 June 2021 8:00-9:00 pm AEST
VicTESOL Discussion Forum for teachers located in Tas, Vic & SA: Reform of the AMEP
Online
7 June 2021 4:00-5:00 pm AEST
The Role of Home Languages in Mainstream Schooling
Canberra, ACT
3 June 2021 4:30pm to 5:30pm
Theme: Lecture
Early Childhood and Education Series – Families and Communities as Resources for Children’s Writing and Cultural Learning
Online
17 April 2021 10:00 - 11:00 am AEST
Theme: Early Childhood and Education Series
Using Multimedia in the Adult TESOL Classroom – Adult TESOL Sharing Session
Online
30 March 2021 4:30-6:00 pm AEDT
Innovative sustainable online language teaching – social media and the adult EAL/D classroom
Online
24 March 2021 4:00–5:00 pm AEST Qld time
Theme: Adult learners, online learning
Teaching English as an Additional Language/Dialect (EAL/D) During COVID-19 School Closure: Teacher Perspectives
Milpera SHS, Brisbane (face-to-face)
20 March 2021 9:00-10.30 am AEST Qld time
Theme: EAL/adult/school; covid-19
What Works in Effective EAL/D Schools: CESE research report
Online
18 March 2021 4:00-5:00 pm AEDT
Early Childhood and Education Series – Building ECEC across the Nordic Countries
Online
17 March 2021 6:00-7:00 pm AEDT
Theme: Early Childhood and Education Series
Planning for teaching EAL/D students in K-2 mainstream classrooms
Online
17 March 2021 4:00-5:30 pm AEDT
“Your story: Show it to me” Three-part online course (Part 1)
Online
17 March 2021 5:30-7:30 pm AEDT
Exploring, thinking, and learning about languages and literacies with young people in Australian classrooms
Online
15 March 2021 5:30-6:30 pm AEDT
Early Childhood and Education Series – Leveraging Languages for Learning
Online
17 February 2021 6:00-7:00 pm AEDT
Theme: Early Childhood and Education Series
English for Adult Migrants – Future Directions
11 November 2020
Theme: Learn about the Commonwealth Government’s vision for English language provision for adult migrants
The Refugee Experience – Resources for Teachers
28 October 2020
Theme: A collaboration between the Australian Council of TESOL Associations (ACTA), the Refugee Council of Australia (RCOA), ATESOL ACT and VicTESOL
AALL Conference 2019 – Association for Academic Language and Learning
University of Notre Dame, Fremantle, Western Australia
27 - 29 November 2019
Theme: AALL around the world: international perspectives, research and practice in academic language and learning