Dr Susan Rook, Senior Lecturer in Primary Literacy at RMIT University, speaks with Dan Zhou from Monash University, about her newly funded VicTESOL project on translanguaging strategies for primary years writing.

As a bilingual teacher, researcher, and mother, I have long been involved in children’s language education, both in theory and in practice. Over the past decade, I have worked with children aged six weeks to eight years. Since 2019, my research has focused on bilingual programs in early childhood education. In 2025, with the birth of my daughter, this professional interest became deeply personal as I began raising a child in three languages: Chinese, English, and Greek.

Recently, Dr. Mobina Sahraee Juybari spoke with A/Prof. Julie Choi (ARTP Lab leader), Dr. Raf Cleeve Gerkens, Dr. Shu Ohki, and PhD candidate Melissa Slamet. The discussion offered insights into how plurilingual, arts-informed, and holistic approaches can come together to support learners across educational contexts.

This episode of Leveraging Languages for Learning brings educators and researchers into conversation about how language, learning, and social change intersect. In this Podcast, four contributors — Anne Keary (Monash University), Ben Rampton (King’s College London), Jessie Sambell (Blackburn English Language School), and Dermot Bryers (English for Action, UK) — discuss their professional journeys and the value of collaboration between researchers and on-the-ground teachers.

As an English language learner, migrant, and long-time TESOL practitioner, I have often found myself navigating the space between what is pedagogically sound and what is socially expected in English language classrooms—particularly in the Chinese context.

Dr. Sue Ollerhead, Macquarie University Dr. Sue Ollerhead works with translanguaging as a researcher and teacher educator in Sydney. In this interview, she shares her insights with Marianne Turner on the feasibility and impact of translanguaging for students of different ages in Australian classrooms.      Marianne:  Sue, thank you for talking to me today, First, can I ask a general question about the way you work with the idea of translanguaging? What drew you to this idea o

As a researcher and teacher educator, A/Prof. Zhongfeng Tian regularly collaborates with teachers in the US context in order to explore how translanguaging can be effectively utilised for student learning.