News about ACTA activities and advocacy
plus other TESOL related news and events in Australia
- Professional Learning
- Major Conferences
- Other Events
- Past Events
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
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
ACTA International Conference
Brisbane, Queensland
28 - 30 September 2021
Theme: Pushing the Boundaries
“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
“Your story: Show it to me” Three-part online course (Part 1)
Online
17 March 2021 5:30-7:30 pm AEDT
Planning for teaching EAL/D students in K-2 mainstream classrooms
Online
17 March 2021 4:00-5:30 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
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