Langauges Victoria: July 2022 edition out mid-July!

Check your inboxes next week for the latest edition of Languages Victoria, MLTAV's e-journal published twice a year. 

This edition includes a range of information as well as articles linked to Language teaching and learning through stories. 

If you miss this in your inbox, you will be able to access the new edition as well as all past journals from the MLTAV website. 

What is functional language? 
How will it help our learners?

This hands-on workshop will explore the types of language we need to give students to empower them to speak together more often. Participants will discover the language students need to become active communicators and will discuss ways to ensure that their language is used actively and as often as possible in the classroom and beyond.
Teachers will work in language specific groups to identify high-frequency words and phrases that will become the functional language their students need and use every day.
Cost: MLTAV Member Rate $30 / Non-members $50 (includes catering)

Our schools are becoming increasingly multilingual and multicultural.

In this context, what is the role of teaching an additional language?

This workshop includes:

• insights from the research

• practical strategies Languages teachers can use to support EAL students to draw on their multilingual skills as a resource in language learning, and to improve their overall school experience.

Cost: MLTAV Member Rate $30 / Non-members $50

This free webinar will focus on the what, how, and why of CLIL for teachers in the beginning stages of their CLIL journey.

It will provide the fundamentals of CLIL pedagogy and some practical ways to put them into practice.

Drawing on his own experience as a Japanese/Environmental Science CLIL teacher, Shu Ohki will also share the challenges and successes of doing CLIL, and why CLIL was effective in supporting students' language learning, engagement and motivation.

Gianfranco Conti will facilitate a dynamic and practical full day workshop which will provide primary and secondary Languages teachers with the opportunity to:
- learn about the Extensive Processing Instruction (EPI) Model in which teaching is strategically designed to support successful language learning
- unpack the MARSEARS framework which provides a structure for sequencing learning in manageable and meaningful chunks
- engage in practical strategies which build learner confidence to use language spontaneously.


The MLTAV PL team will co-facilitate some breakout sessions to support you to:
- collaborate with colleagues at your level (primary/secondary) to explore how to apply these strategies in your own context
- plan your next steps for implementing this into your practice.

Dr Gianfranco Conti is an experienced Languages teacher, CEO of the Language Gym, international presenter and is currently visiting professor at Reading University, UK.

Cost:

MLTAV Member $165
Non-member $200
Full-time student $100
CECV teachers $0 *Please Note: Teachers in Catholic schools can register for this PL at no cost as places are being supported by the Catholic Education Commission of Victoria (CECV)

Venue: 
Catholic Leadership Centre, 576 Victoria Pde East Melbourne

Morning tea and lunch provided.

A podcast with Dr Gianfranco Conti

In this episode of The Motivated Classroom with Liam Printer podcast, Dr. Gianfranco Conti discusses acquiring languages through 'Extensive Processing Instruction' (EPI) and how it links to motivation and engagement.

In this podcast, Gianfranco shares his expertise, experience and the research around the approach as well as many practical classroom activities. If you are inspired by these ideas and want to find out more about how to apply this in your context, make sure you register for the MLTAV workshop with Dr Conti on Friday 9 September.