Found in translation: How translanguaging deepened my students’ academic English
byAustralia’s universities have never been more internationally diverse – and nowhere is that clearer than at the University of Sydney. Yet sit in on…
Arts and Social Sciences
Designing and planning group work for first-year gender studies students
byAs an educator in Gender Studies, I am constantly guided by feminist values in recognising diversity and power hierarchies in the classroom. Out of…
Designing assessment as a learning journey in language studies
byIn 2018, I found myself reflecting on a question that many language teachers have probably asked at some point: How do we create opportunities…
Podcasting as co-production: Creating knowledge with students
byThis semester, I experimented with something I had never formally incorporated into my teaching before: producing a podcast with final-year anthropology students reflecting on…
Rethinking foreign language learning through graphic narratives
byStudents today rarely read only words, but constantly move between images, video, text, and design in their everyday lives. Outside the classroom, they scroll…
Teaching Chinese classical literature in Australian classrooms through close reading and creative adaptation
byHong Lou Meng(þ┤ൿôÕñó), also known asThe Dream of the Red Chamber, is one of the most celebrated works in the canon of Chinese classical…
To Gen AI or not to Gen AI: Collaborating with student partners on the two-lane assessment approach
byTime has passed since the unleashing of ChatGPT for public consumption in November 2022, and we are no longer faced with the dilemma of…
Decolonising the curriculum and fostering empathy through intercultural literacy in the french classroom
byIntercultural literacy is both a key part of one of Sydney’s graduate qualities, cultural competence, and of our teaching in the School of Languages…
From Page to Performance: How Interactive Orals Transform Academic Writing Pedagogy
bySince 2020, I have been teaching academic writing across undergraduate and postgraduate levels within the Discipline of English and Writing Studies at the University…
Interactive Oral Assessment in practice
byInteractive Oral Assessments (IOAs) are defined as secure assessments in the new Sydney assessment framework. With the rise of generative AI, concerns about academic…