Conferences
The members of the Research Centre for Languages and Cultures participate fully in academic conversations nationally and internationally. Members are often invited to give plenary presentations at conferences, and also present other papers at conference. We give here a selection of plenary and keynote presentations, and papers at refereed conferences, which have been given by RCLC members since 2005. This list is updated in March and September each year.
Candlin, C., & Crichton, J. (2008, 6 July). Discourses of deficit: The discursive construction of 'deficit' within applied linguistic research. Paper presented at the 33rd Annual Conference of the Applied Linguistics Association of Australia, Sydney.
Crichton, J., Scarino, A., & Kohler, M. (2008, 5 July). Construing language and culture for languages assessment. Paper presented at the 33rd Annual Conference of the Applied Linguistics Association of Australia, Sydney.
Curnow, T. J., & Kohler, M. (2008, 6 July). Languages are important, but not in my world. Paper presented at the 33rd Annual Conference of the Applied Linguistics Association of Australia, Sydney.
Liddicoat, A. J. (2008, 2 July). The erosion of Norman French dialect features: Evidence from linguistic atlases. Paper presented at the Annual Conference of the Australian Linguistic Society, Sydney.
Liddicoat, A. J., & Curnow, T. J. (2008, 5 July). The place of languages in the school curriculum: Policy and practice in Australian schools. Paper presented at the 33rd Annual Conference of the Applied Linguistics Association of Australia, Sydney.
Scarino, A., & Papademetre, L. (2008, 3-5 March).
Investigating cultural variability in the intercultural context of teaching,
learning, and assessment of an Australian ESL syllabus in Malaysia: A case
study. Paper presented at the First International Language Conference,
International Islamic University Malaysia, Kuala Lumpur.
Bryant, D., & Crichton, J. (2007, 22-24 June). What happens when critical literacy goes intercultural? An examination of the experience of preparing international students for academic literacy. Paper presented at the Conference of the China Association for Intercultural Communication, Harbin.
Crichton, J., & Scarino, A. (2007, 29 Nov-1 Dec). International education: Reflections on practices of educational change. Paper presented at the Conference on Discourses and Cultural Practices, Sydney.
Crichton, J., Scarino, A., & Papademetre, L. (2007, July). Developing the intercultural dimension: interlinguistic considerations in international education. Paper presented at the Annual Congress of the Applied Linguistics Association of Australia, Wollongong.
Crichton, J., Scarino, A., & Papademetre, L. (2007, 1-3 July). The intercultural dimension of internationalisation. Paper presented at the 32nd Annual Congress of the Applied Linguistics Association of Australia, Wollongong.
Curnow, T. J., & Travis, C. E. (2007, 27 September). Locational adverbs in non-spatial settings: The case of ahí in Colombian Spanish conversation. Paper presented at the 2007 Conference of the Australian Linguistic Society, Adelaide.
Heugh, K. (2007, 21 February). Contextualising language policy in the Western Cape. Paper presented at the Western Cape Language Committee International Mother Tongue Day Conference, Cape Town.
Heugh, K. (2007, 20-21 September). Implications of recent research in Sub-Saharan Africa: linguistic diversity in both formal and non-formal education. Paper presented at the SUS.DIV Third General Assembly, Athens, Greece.
Heugh, K. (2007, 8 March). Linguistic diversity and the resource vs. human rights conundrum. Paper presented at the Symposium on Multilingualism in South Africa, Stellenbosch.
Heugh, K. (2007, 19-23 August). Reading for cognitive development and successful learning: The importance of the mother tongue/s. Paper presented at the Library Services to Multicultural Populations, International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions’ (IFLA) World Library and Information Congress: 73rd IFLA General Conference and Council, Durban, South Africa.
Heugh, K., & Alidou, H. (2007, 10-12 September). Towards effective literacy teaching and learning in African education: A research and development proposal. Paper presented at the Effective Practices in Africa: Languages in Literacy and Basic Education. African Regional Conference in Support of Global Literacy (hosted by UNESCO), Bamako, Mali.
Heugh, K., Diedericks, G. A. M., Herbst, D. L., Prinsloo, C. H., Makgamatha, M., & Winaar, L. (2007, 27-28 September). Accommodation of linguistic diversity in system-wide assessment in S[outh] A[frica]: The WCED GRADE 8 Assessment Tasks 2006. Paper presented at the HSRC Conference.
Kohler, M., Liddicoat, A. J., Loechel, K., Morgan, A.-M., & Scarino, A. (2007, July). Intercultural language teaching and learning. Paper presented at the 16th National Conference of the Australian Federation of Modern Language Teachers Associations, Perth.
Liddicoat, A. J. (2007, 28-30 November). International education as intercultural encounter. Paper presented at the International Education Association (ISANA) National Conference, Adelaide.
Liddicoat, A. J. (2007). The internet as a multilingual space: Linguistic diversity and the democratisation of communication. Paper presented at the Open Road Conference, Melbourne.
Liddicoat, A. J. (2007, 27-29 September). Models of national government language-in-education policy for indigenous minority language group. Paper presented at the 2007 Conference of the Australian Linguistic Society, Adelaide.
Liddicoat, A. J. (2007, 2-4 July). Planning and assessing the intercultural in languages education. Paper presented at the Japanese Studies Association of Australia National Conference, Canberra.
Liddicoat, A. J. (2007, 27 April). Planning and assessing the intercultural in languages education. Paper presented at the Annual Conference of the Modern Language Teachers Association of Victoria, 'VELS Implementation and So Much More', Melbourne.
Liddicoat, A. J. (2007, 12-14 July). The planning of intercultural language teaching and learning, on the panel 'Intercultural language teaching and learning'. Paper presented at the Australian Federation of Modern Language Teachers Associations (AFMLTA) National Conference, Perth.
Liddicoat, A. J. (2007, 23 March). Why are languages important for the 21st century?. Paper presented at the Statewide Conference of the Japanese Language Teachers Association of Victoria, Melbourne.
Scarino, A. (2007, 4 May). Assessing the intercultural in language learning. Paper presented at the Annual Conference of the Victorian Association of Teachers of Italian.
Scarino, A. (2007, 7 July). An educational rationale for learning languages: An intercultural orientation. Paper presented at the Association of Australian International Baccalaureate Schools Conference, Canberra.
Scarino, A., & Crichton, J. (2007, 19 September).
Assessing "international perspectives" as a graduate quality. Paper
presented at the Conference of the Education Research Group of Adelaide
(ERGA), Adelaide.
Barrett, R. & Crichton, J. (2006, 6-8 December). Investigating the “trill of suspirality”: Thought disorder as an emergent property of conversational interaction. Paper presented at the Conference of the Australasian Society for Psychiatric Research, Sydney.
Chiro, G. (2006, 4-7 December). Ethnic tenacity and cultural identity among tertiary students of Italian ancestry in Australia. Paper presented at the Conference of the Australian Sociological Association, Perth.
Heugh, K. (2006, 31 July). Educational, budgetary and planning implications of different language education models (keynote). Paper presented at the South African Minister of Education’s Language Colloquium, Cape Town, South Africa.
Heugh, K. (2006, 7-9 March). An evaluation of language education models in Africa: Findings & recommendations from the UNESCO Institute for Education-ADEA stocktaking report on Língua Materna e Ensino Bilingue in Africa (keynote). Paper presented at the International conference on bilingual education in Mozambique, hosted by IBIS, Maputo, Mozambique.
Heugh, K. (2006, 30 November). International research on mother tongue and bilingual education (presentation). Paper presented at the Findings of the Medium of Instruction in Ethiopia Study, Mekelle, Tigray Region, Ethiopia.
Heugh, K. (2006, 27-31 March). Towards effective models of bilingual education and use of African languages in education: Findings from a UIE-ADEA-GTZ Stocktaking Report on Mother Tongue and Bilingual Education in Sub-Saharan Africa (plenary). Paper presented at the Meeting of the African Ministers of Education, ADEA Biennale, Libreville, Gabon.
Heugh, K. (2006, 27 May). What the research tells us: Literacy and language education issues for this decade (keynote). Paper presented at the Languages Solutions. Conference of the Cape Institute for Education, Kuils River, South Africa.
Kohler, M. (2006, 2-5 July). Intercultural language teaching: What are teachers doing in their classrooms? Paper presented at the Biennial International Conference of the New Zealand Association of Languages Teachers, Auckland.
Liddicoat, A.J. (2006, 21 April). Intercultural language learning in Australia (plenary). Paper presented at the Tenth Anniversary Symposium of the Melbourne Centre for Japanese Language Education, 'Japanese language education: The bigger picture', Melbourne.
Liddicoat, A.J. (2006, 5 August). Intercultural language learning: Principles for practice (keynote). Paper presented at the Victorian School of Languages Professional Development Day, Melbourne.
Liddicoat, A.J. (2006, 12-13 August). Intercultural language learning: Principles for practice (keynote). Paper presented at the Conference of the Modern Language Teachers Association of Tasmania, Hobart.
Liddicoat, A.J. (2006, 20 May). Intercultural language teaching: Principles for practice (keynote). Paper presented at the Annual Conference for Primary and Secondary Teachers of German: Die Tagung von und mit Deutschlehrerinnen und Deutschlehrern in Südaustralien, Adelaide.
Liddicoat, A.J. (2006, 3-6 July). Les idéologies australiennes du multiculturalisme et la position des langues dans le système éducatif et la société (part of an invited plenary session, 'Découpages disciplinaires et traditions idéologiques dans l’enseignement des langues'). Paper presented at the International Symposium 'Grandes et petites langues et didactique du plurilinguisme et du pluriculturalisme. Modèles et experiences', Sorbonne, Paris.
Papademetre, L. & Scarino, A. (2006, 2-5 July). Reflections on practice: Given a set of principles for intercultural teaching and learning, what are the implications for languages pedagogy? Paper presented at the Biennial International Conference of the New Zealand Association of Language Teachers, Auckland.
Scarino, A. (2006, 2-5 July). Implementing curriculum and assessment frameworks in languages education: The issues of interpretation (plenary). Paper presented at the Biennial International Conference of the New Zealand Association of Language Teachers, Auckland.
Scarino, A., Crichton, J. & Liddicoat, A.J. (2006, 10-13 October). Internationalisation of the curriculum: An intercultural perspective. Paper presented at the Australian International Education Conference, Perth.
Scarino, A., Moore, H. & Arkoudis, S. (2006, 28 June). The development and implementation of scale-based assessment frameworks in Australian schools (invited workshop). Paper presented at the International Language Testing Research Colloquium, Melbourne.
Scarino, A. & Papademetre, L. (2006, 17-20 June). Beyond criteria and standards: teacher judgment of student performance in second language learning. Paper presented at the Joint Conference of the American Association for Applied Linguistics and the Association Canadienne de Linguistique Appliquée/Canadian Association of Applied Linguistics, Montreal, Canada.
Scarino, A. & Papademetre, L. (2006, 21-26 May). A framework for quality assurance in the development and delivery of offshore programs in languages other than English. Paper presented at the 58th Annual Conference of NAFSA: Association of International Educators, Montréal, Canada.
Scrimgeour, A. (2006, 2-5 July). Recent innovations in Chinese curriculum. Paper presented at the Biennial International Conference of the New Zealand Association of Languages Teachers, Auckland.
Scrimgeour, A. (2006, 2-5 July). Recent research in character teaching and learning. Paper presented at the Biennial International Conference of the New Zealand Association of Languages Teachers, Auckland.
Scrimgeour, A. (2006, 22-25 April). Recent research into character teaching and learning in Australian schools, and the development of multimedia resources to support literacy acquisition in Chinese. Paper presented at the Second International Conference on Chinese Literacy Education, Beijing.
Woods, C., Lushington, K. & Crichton, J. (2006, 20-22 October). Readers'
perceptions: The book as device or as aesthetic object. Paper presented at
the Fourth International Conference on the Book, Boston, USA.
Crichton, J. (2005, 25-28 September). Doing battle with a noun: Some notes on the grammar of terror. Paper presented at the 30th Annual Congress of the Applied Linguistics Association of Australia, Melbourne.
Crichton, J. & Barrett, R. (2005, 30 June-2 July). Investigating "the trill of suspirality": Language and schizophrenia in the context of a psychiatric interview. Paper presented at the 3rd International Conference on Communication Medicine and Ethics, Sydney.
Crichton, J. & Koch, T. (2005, 30 June-2 July). Living with dementia: Communication, social networks and identity. Paper presented at the 3rd International Conference on Communication Medicine and Ethics, Sydney.
Crichton, J. & Scarino, A. (2005, 25-28 September). How do we understand the "intercultural dimension"? An examination of the intercultural dimension of internationalisation in the context of higher education in Australia. Paper presented at the 30th Annual Congress of the Applied Linguistics Association of Australia, Melbourne.
Curnow, T.J. (2005, 29 September). Interrogatives and negatives in Awa Pit: One system or two? Paper presented at the Conference of the Australian Linguistic Society, Melbourne.
Curnow, T.J. (2005, 9 December). The relationship between language and communication from a descriptive/typological linguistic perspective. Paper presented at the conference Conceptualising Communication: Building cross-disciplinary understanding in human communication science, Armidale.
Kohler, M. & Davis, L. (2005, July). Supporting the case for languages: Practical strategies and resources. Paper presented at the National Conference of the Australian Federation of Modern Language Teachers Associations, Melbourne.
Liddicoat, A.J. (2005, 25-28 September). « Appelez-moi M. Édouard »: Learning the culture of interpersonal relationships. Paper presented at the 30th Annual Congress of the Applied Linguistics Association of Australia, Melbourne.
Liddicoat, A.J. (2005, 9 December). Communication as culturally contexted practice. Paper presented at the Conference 'Conceptualising Communication: Building cross-disciplinary understanding in human communication science', Armidale.
Liddicoat, A.J. (2005, 25-28 September). The ideology of interculturality in Japanese language-in-education policy. Paper presented at the 30th Annual Congress of the Applied Linguistics Association of Australia, Melbourne.
Liddicoat, A.J. (2005, 4-6 November). Intercultural language teaching: Principles for practice (plenary). Paper presented at the Annual Conference of the Association of German Teachers of Victoria / Goethe Institut, Geelong.
Liddicoat, A.J. (2005, 22 January). Language and culture in the second language classroom (plenary). Paper presented at the Conference of the Queensland Association of Teachers of English to Speakers of Other Languages, Brisbane.
Liddicoat, A.J. (2005, 6-9 July). Language, culture and identity in French language learning. Paper presented at the 15th Biennial Conference of the Australian Federation of Modern Language Teachers Associations, Melbourne.
Liddicoat, A.J. (2005, 6-9 July). Professional standards for language teaching. Paper presented at the 15th Biennial Conference of the Australian Federation of Modern Language Teachers Associations, Melbourne.
Lushington, K., Crichton, J., Papademetre, L. & Scarino, A. (2005, 16-17 July). Preparing professionals for international work. Paper presented at the China International Conference on the Theory and Frontline Practice of Human Resources Management, Beijing.
Papademetre, L. (2005, 25-28 September). Applying aspects of philosophical hermeneutics in intercultural education. Paper presented at the 30th Annual Congress of the Applied Linguistics Association of Australia, Melbourne.
Scarino, A. & Kohler, M. (2005, July). Developing a long term perspective on teaching, learning and assessment. Paper presented at the National Conference of the Australian Federation of Modern Language Teachers Associations, Melbourne.
Scrimgeour, A. (2005, 30 July). Character learning: Resource development
and applications for second language learners. Paper presented at the Summer
Conference of the Chinese Language Teachers Network of the Association of
China and Mongolia International Schools, Shanghai.