SEPTEMBER FREE MASTER CLASSES
Welcome again another MASTER CLASSES for SEPTEMBER. Part of the NSW Federation of Community Language Schools' community language teacher training development series. These webinars are aimed specifically to benefit community language schools teachers and are offered free by the NSWFCLS Inc. All sessions are designed to assist teachers to gain both practical and specific knowledge offered by language experts from a range of backgrounds from local and overseas universities and institutions.
Thursday 3 September 2020, 6 PM to 7PM (AEST)
Special guest presenters: Professor Ingrid Piller Macquarie University.
TOPIC: Literacy in heritage language maintenance.
Learning how to read and write often takes a backseat in heritage language maintenance. However, in order to reap the full benefits of bilingualism – for the individual and the community – a high level of literacy development is essential. This session provides an overview of the relationship between written and spoken language, and the main challenges in developing minority language literacy to age-appropriate levels. How these can be tackled in community language schools will also be discussed.
Ingrid Piller is Distinguished Professor of Applied Linguistics at Macquarie University. She is the author of Linguistic Diversity and Social Justice (Oxford University Press, 2016), and numerous other publications. Her research blog is available through Language on the Move and she tweets about linguistic diversity @lg_on_the_move.
