This website is one output of a joint project between Queensland University of Technology and The Queensland Department of Education. The project was funded through the Department of Education Horizon Scheme and has come to be known as the Home Languages in Schools project.

Navigating language use in the classroom can be challenging.

This resource map is designed to support the uptake of plurilingual strategies in primary and secondary school settings in Australia. These settings include both English-as-an-additional-language (EAL) classes and mainstream classes with students from different language backgrounds. The resources were created/facilitated by teachers, and the project was funded by the Catholic Education Commission, Victoria. The resources focus on: Normalising home languages in everyday tea

In this entry, I’m going to talk about the differences between translation and translanguaging and whether or not these two notions can...

Click here to access a Victorian Department of Education webpage that gives examples of teachers and students working with plurilingual strategies. Plurilingual strategies recognise and work with language students use at home and at school. They include any activity that brings students' languages into the classroom to enhance teaching and learning. The benefits of these strategies are well-established, and they are included in the English-as-an-Additional-Language (EAL) Cur