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STATE CONFERENCE
‘WORKING TOGETHER
IN THE DIGITAL AGE’
THE ETHNIC SCHOOLS
ASSOCIATION OF
SOUTH AUSTRALIA INC.
ADELAIDE HIGH SCHOOL, WEST TCE
To register go to: www.esasa.asn.au
This Educational Conference is aimed at Ethnic
School Authorities and Language Teachers, and
explores how to meet the diverse learning needs
of increasingly disparate groups of language
learners in our digital era.
The theme draws upon the global technology-driven
trends experienced in our language classrooms
in Ethnic Community Language Schools or in
mainstream Schools, and its profound impact on
language teaching and learning. Language teachers
and education professionals from Ethnic Schools
or mainstream Schools, are cordially invited to
participate in a collaborative professional development
opportunity involving a series of interactive workshops.
Take advantage of the Earlybird prices now! Register at: www.esasa.asn.au
Program Timetable
9:00-9:30am
Conference Opening & Welcome
9:30-9:45am
Cultural Performance
9:45-10:30am
Keynote Speaker’s address
What place does technology have in the Languages classroom?
Ms Anita Zocchi, Principal, Adelaide High School
10:30-11:00am
Brunch/Morning tea
11:00-11:45am
Keynote Speaker’s address
Using technologies to mediate language learning
Associate Professor Angela Scarino, UniSA
12:00-1:00pm
Workshops Sessions 1-4
1:00-2:00pmLunch
2:00-3:00pm
Workshops Session 5-8
3:05-4:05pm
Workshops Session 9-12
4:10-4:30pm
Evaluation and Close
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Keynote Speakers
The 2015 State Conference will be held on Saturday 20th June at Adelaide
High School. It is a full day program (9am-430pm) that will include two
key note speakers and three elective sessions out of twelve choices.
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Angela Scarino is Associate Professor in Applied
Linguistics and Director of the Research Centre
for Languages and Cultures, University of South
Australia. Her research expertise is in languages
education in linguistically and culturally diverse
societies, second language curriculum design
and assessment, intercultural language learning
and second language teacher education. She has
been a Chief Investigator on a number of research
grants, for example, Assessing the intercultural
and language learning (ARC Linkage 2006-2009)
and Student Achievement in Asian Languages
Education (DEEWR, 2009-2011). Her most recent
books include: Intercultural Language Teaching
and Learning (with AJ Liddicoat, Wiley-Blackwell,
2013) and Languages in Australian Education:
Problems, Prospects and Future Directions, coedited with AJ Liddicoat, (Cambridge Scholars)
and Dynamic Ecologies: A Relational Perspective
on Languages Education in the Asia Pacific Region
co-edited with N Murray (Springer 2014). She is
currently the Chair of the Multicultural Education
Committee, an advisory committee to the Minister for
Education and child development in South Australia.
Anita Zocchi has been Principal of Adelaide
High School since 2011. As the state’s Special
Interest Language School, Adelaide High School
offers students the opportunity to study Chinese,
French, German, Italian, Japanese, Modern
Greek and Spanish. Prior to being appointed
Principal at Seaview High School in 2010, Anita
held the position of Deputy Principal, Languages
at Adelaide High School for 9 years and has
taught Italian and English for most of her career.
In her role as Deputy Principal, she developed
sister school agreements for languages taught
at Adelaide High School. She was also a DECD
teacher on exchange in Italy in 1990.
Workshops
Time
WORKSHOP 1
WORKSHOP 2
WORKSHOP 3
WORKSHOP 4
12:00noon-1:00pm
Language Application
Showcase
Presenter: John Saredakis
Let’s make Grammar
something to sing about!
Presenter: Angela Benedetti
Public Library Services:
Introducing Available
Resources
Presenter: Chris Kennedy
Interactive Language
Classrooms: What, Why
and How?
Presenter: Raniah Daou
Time
WORKSHOP 5
WORKSHOP 6
WORKSHOP 7
WORKSHOP 8
2:00pm-3:00pm
Task Design for Text
Analysis
Presenter: Ly Luan Le
Nationally Assessed
Languages: Delivering
SACE classes via
community schools
to rural and interstate
students with digital
technologies
Presenter: Agnes Szabo
Embedding sustainability
in the languages
classroom
Presenter: Dina Staffiero
Using apps/android in
class for better lesson
delivery
Presenter: Pauline Akele
Time
WORKSHOP 9
WORKSHOP 10
WORKSHOP 11
WORKSHOP 12
3:05pm-4:05pm
CYBER SAFETY: Keeping
our Young Digital Citizens
Safe in the Digital Age
Presenter: Amir Alikhani
How to create simple
online resources to
support language
learning
Presenter: Adriana Bašić
Effective leadership skills Designing tasks for
for ethnic schools
language learners using
Presenter: Paul Demetriou the Australian Curriculum
Presenter: Michelle Kohler
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Workshop 1
Workshop 3
Workshop 5
Language Application Showcase
Public Library Services:
Introducing Available Resources
Task Design for Text Analysis:
A Vietnamese sample for self exploration
There are over 130 public, country and
joint use school community libraries in
South Australia. They offer a social meeting
place, a go-to service for local community
and educational information and a wide
range of resources including books,
magazines, DVDs and digital resources.
In this session teachers explore how to
prepare a task for text analysis with main
focal points on intercultural concepts
and language variations. Texts are made
available in both Vietnamese and English,
whereas questions are given in English.
The types of texts examined include a
diary entry, a conversation, and an article.
Topics covered are tourism, traditions,
and natural environments.
The Language App Showcase session
allows language teachers to view a variety
of applications they can use in their language
classes. Each session will be hands on and
will require each participant to bring along
a device (iPad, iPhone, Android devices or
laptops) and ensure the apps/websites
have been installed or bookmarked on
their devices prior the session. Any device
with an internet connection will suffice. The
applications showcased include Morfo Booth,
Popplet and Class Dojo.
Presenter: Mr John Saredakis
John Saredakis is an innovative Educator
and Speaker in Adelaide. John is a likeable
and sincere educator and presenter and
is all about improving and making learning
more engaging for his students. He is excited
by the opportunities technology creates
in his classroom and is passionate about
creating learning that is fun, meaningful and
relevant for his students. John is constantly
looking at ways of integrating technology
into his classroom to enhance and promote
excellence in teaching and learning.
John leads and facilitates teachers at his
school through a successful program series
called ‘Appy Hour’ where he supports
professional learning around integrating
ICT into the classroom. John has presented
at various conferences for teachers and
school leaders on how to integrate mobile
learning into our curriculum both in Adelaide
and interstate. John is currently working on
developing courses using iTunes U to create a
flipped classroom approach to learning as well
as integrating Gamification into his classroom.
Workshop 2
Let’s make Grammar something to sing
about! Can singing in the secondary
classroom make Grammar enjoyable and
improve student learning outcomes?
This presentation shares data collected
from a recent project focusing on
Improvement and Innovation in Learning
and Teaching Languages and Cultures
conducted at Kildare College. Middle
school students were taught 10 irregular
present tense verbs using melodies of
popular songs once a week for 5 weeks.
Students were tested at the start of each
lesson and data was collated to examine
the results. Can we really make Grammar
something to sing about?
Presenter: Ms Angela Benedetti
Over the last two decades Angela’s
professional experiences include teaching
in both co-ed and single-sex secondary
schools; numerous responsibilities for the
SACE Board; Vacation School workshops
for Year 12s at the School of Languages;
Involvement in a range of Italian/Language
committees; Teaching Italian at an
Early Learning Centre; teacher training
workshops and private language tuition.
She is a passionate languages advocate
committed to ongoing professional
development to enhance her practice
and improve student learning outcomes.
In late 2014 every public library in the
state became part of the One Library
Card System. This has vastly increased
the range of material available to all library
customers in the state and offers people
the convenience to borrow from one
library, and if they wish, return to another
elsewhere in the state.
Titles are actively purchased in 20 other
languages beside English, and the One
Card Catalogue means that these can be
shared around the state. This presentation
will outline the way the One Card System
works, describe what is available and
demonstrate the best way to access all of
the resources available.
Presenter: Ms Chris Kennedy, Coordinator
Public Library Services since 2008
Workshop 4
Interactive language Classrooms:
What, Why and How?
Interactive classrooms have proved to
be the most successful environments for
learning. What are interactive classrooms?
Why are they so important to create? And
how do we turn our language classroom
into an interactive one? This workshop
aims to provide an insight into interactive
classrooms and equip the participant with
a range of interactive activities for primary
and secondary classes.
Presenter: Ms Raniah Daou
Raniah Daou holds a B.A in English
Literature from the American University
of Beirut and a Graduate Certificate in
Educational Management and Leadership
and a Masters of Teaching Languages and
ESL (Middle and Secondary) from UniSA.
Raniah has been teaching English since
1993 to speakers of other languages. She
started teaching Arabic at the Australian
Druze Arabic School in 2007 after
migrating with her family to Australia in
2006. She has also been working as an
interpreter since 2008.
Raniah has held the position of the
chairperson of the Ethnic Schools
Association of South Australia in the years
2008-2009. She is a current member
of the Ethnic Schools Board of South
Australia representing the teachers’
voice, an English teacher at the Adelaide
Secondary School of English and an
Arabic teacher and principal at the
Australian Druze Arabic School.
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Presenter: Ly Luan Le
Ly Luan Le began his life in the
Vietnamese province of Phu Yen. After
graduating as a teacher in 1977, he worked
in Saigon until his life took an unexpected
turn in 1981.
Because of the political upheaval that led
to the Vietnam war, Ly was forced to leave
his country of origin and seek asylum in
Australia. After arriving in Adelaide with
his young family, Ly undertook further
studies and six years later graduated with
a Graduate Diploma in Teaching English
to Speakers of Other Languages from the
University of South Australia. Following
this, he completed his Master of Education
in 1999 at Deakin University, Victoria.
Today, Ly Luan Le remains a language
teacher and lives a relatively peaceful life
in Adelaide, Australia.
Workshop 6
Nationally Assessed Languages:
Delivering SACE Classes via community
schools to rural and interstate students
with digital technologies
In this session teachers are introduced
to ways of using digital technologies
in distance education/ external mode
delivery of Nationally Assessed SACE
Languages to interstate or rural
candidates.
Presenter: Agnes Szabo
Agnes Szabo has been working as a
Hungarian-English Professional Translator
and Interpreter since 1993. Agnes has
studied several languages and her
linguistic and cultural knowledge have
made her aware of the importance of
language learning. Agnes is a volunteer
teacher of SACE Stage1 and 2 Hungarian
Continuers at the Hungarian Community
School, Adelaide Inc. Recently, responding
to interstate and rural students’ requests,
Agnes established an online distance
education course for the study of
Hungarian as a Nationally Assessed
Language within Australia.
Workshop 7
Workshop 9
Workshop 11
Embedding sustainability
in the languages classroom
CYBER SAFETY: Keeping our Young
Digital Citizens Safe in the Digital Age
Effective leadership skills
for ethnic schools
What’s the Australian Curriculum Cross
Curriculum Priority ‘Sustainability’ about?
The Internet offers young people many
benefits and opportunities. These benefits
include opportunities for learning and
development, access to new sources
of knowledge, broadening experiences,
creativity, expression and entertainment.
However young people’s understanding
and use of online safety sometimes
conflicts with adult perceptions of what
risks young people face online. In this
context, a number of questions emerge that
will be explored in this session such as:
The workshop is designed to provide
practical guidelines and strategies for
Ethnic School Leaders that will enhance
communication with members of their
teaching staff and improve educational
outcomes for students at their schools.
This interactive workshop will provide
teachers with ideas and strategies on how
to embed a focus on sustainability in the
languages classroom.
Presenter: Ms Dina Staffiero
Dina Staffiero has been teaching Italian
for nearly twenty years in Catholic primary
schools both in Victoria and South
Australia. She has completed a Masters in
Education with a Languages Specialisation,
been a mentor for both early career and
experienced languages teachers, worked
as a CESA Languages Consultant, ACARA
Languages: Italian Curriculum writer and
is currently working at St Gabriel’s school
where she teaches Reception to Year 7
Italian and is also an Early Years Teacher.
Workshop 8
Using apps/android in class
for better lesson delivery
This session explores the various
Apps that can be used in the language
classroom to enhance lesson delivery
and support teachers and students in their
work. The Apps that will be examined are
not only useful to language teachers but
can be used also in other subject.
Presenter: Ms Pauline Akele
Pauline speaks four languages including
French, Arabic, Italian and English. Pauline
is currently employed by the School of
Languages as a French language teacher,
where she teaches students at Year 10,
SACE Stage 2 French Beginners as well
as the International Baccalaureate (IB).
Pauline has also taught French previously
to students ranging from Year 6 through
to Year 11.
What are privacy settings and what
are the current trends in the usage
of these settings?
What are online risks and how can we
deploy management strategies to assist
or protect children?
What software is currently available
and how can we best integrate it?
How can we become more internet
literate to assist children in practicing
online safety?
Are there specific concerns for children
and young people at particular ages?
Presenter: Mr Amir Alikhani
Amir Alikhani holds a Master of Information
Technology with a major in Networks
and Security. Currently, Amir is employed
as a language teacher at the School of
Languages and as a School Services
Officer (ICT and Bilingual) at Department
for Education and Children Development
(DECD). He possesses an advanced
level of understanding of computer
operating systems and is well versed in the
management of Network security issues.
Workshop 10
How to create simple online resources
to support language learning
Take a look at how you or your students
can create online resources to support
language learning. This show and tell
session offers some examples and ideas
on how to use your PC computer to
develop resources from simple power
point presentations with a voice over to
more complex creations.
Presenter: Mrs Adriana Bašić
Adriana Bašić has a Master of Education
specialising in digital technology, as
Assistant Principal at the School of
Languages has the overview for ICT
and education in the school.
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Presenter: Mr Paul Demetriou OAM
Paul Demetriou served as a principal for over
37 years at numerous primary schools in
SA. Paul has played a key part in advocating
the teaching of LOTE and in 2002 received
the Medal of the Order of Australia for
service to education, particularly through the
introduction of second language teaching
to local government schools and the
community sector.
Workshop 12
Designing tasks for language learners
using the Australian Curriculum
As language teachers familiarise with
the Australian Curriculum: Languages,
questions arise as to how the curriculum
may change what teachers and students
do from day-to-day in the classroom.
This workshop will explore the influence
of the Australian Curriculum: Languages
on the way teachers design tasks for
language learning. There will be an
opportunity for participants to discuss
examples and work with the curriculum
to develop their own tasks.
Presenter: Dr Michelle Kohler
Dr Michelle Kohler is a Lecturer in
Languages Education and Indonesian at
Flinders University. Michelle’s research
interests include intercultural language
teaching and learning, languages
curriculum, pedagogy and assessment,
and Indonesian language education.
She has contributed to a number of
nationally significant projects including
the development of the Australian
Curriculum: Languages, intercultural
language learning, assessment of student
achievement and Indonesian language
education in Australian schools.
Get in quick to reserve your spot!
Earlybird Registration closes 31 May.
For more information, contact:
Darryl Buchanan
p. 8301 4816
e. darryl.buchanan@sa.gov.au
To register go to: www.esasa.asn.au