AMEP RESEARCH CENTRE
e BULLETIN
Issue 11 March 2007
Welcome to the eleventh AMEP Research Centre e-Bulletin,
with news, items of interest, events, new resources and Web links.
New Director of the AMEP Research Centre
Professor Ingrid Piller has been appointed as Director
of the AMEP Research Centre and will take up her
appointment in mid April. Professor Piller is currently
Professor and Head of Department of English
Sociolinguistics at Basel University in Switzerland.
She was previously at the University of Sydney
from 2000-2005 where she was a Senior Lecturer,
and at Hamburg University from 1997 - 2000
where she was an Assistant Professor.
For Professor Piller's publications visit:
http://pages.unibas.ch/anglist/people/teachers/piller.htm
RESEARCH
Special Projects Research Program for 2005-06 is
now almost complete, with reports and publications
in process for final publication in 2007. The findings of
these projects have been reported at National Forums
and AMEP Conferences in 2005 and 2006, and can be
accessed at:
http://www.nceltr.mq.edu.au/conference/preconferences.html
and
http://www.nceltr.mq.edu.au/pdamep/nat_for/index.html
The Special Projects Research Program 2007-08
developed in consultation with the Department of
Immigration & Citizenship and AMEP Service Provider
Heads is in final stages of completion. Information about
the research program will be distributed to all AMEP Service
Provider heads, and will be available by the end of March at:
http://www.nceltr.mq.edu.au/research/research_frames.htm
AMEP RC Research coordinators will soon be in touch
with people and organisations nominated to participate
in projects of interest to them.
For enquiries about the research program contact
pamela.mcpherson@mq.edu.au
PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT
The Professional Development program for 2007 is as follows:
17-18 May
AMEP National Forum 1
Learners in Transition
Venue: TAFE SA English Language Services, Adelaide
12 - 13 July
Specialist Skills Course
Reframing Communicative Language Teaching
Venue: La Trobe University
Melbourne
30 July - 7 September
Teaching Skills Development Course
Integrating Numeracy
Venue: On-line delivery
4 - 6 October
AMEP National Conference
Changing Identities: Changing Needs
Venue: Mooloolaba Centre, Sunshine Coast
Institute of TAFE, Queensland
Confirmed guest speakers include:
Plenary speaker:
Professor Tracey Derwing
Featured Speakers:
Professor Frank Hardman
Hayo Reinders
Margaret Piper
15 - 16 November
AMEP National Forum 2
Orientation to Work and English in the AMEP
Venue: Canberra Institute of Technology, Canberra
Contact: amep@nceltr.mq.edu.au
Phone 02 9850 9645
www.nceltr.mq.edu.au/pdamep
AMEP National Forum II/2006 - Report
The report on the National Forum on Learners from Africa
(Hobart: November 2006) is now on our website at
http://www.nceltr.mq.edu.au/pdamep/nat_for/index.html
PROFESSIONAL CONNECTIONS
http://www.nceltr.mq.edu.au/pdamep/
Visit your professional website and be part of the
community of teaching. Your suggestions and contributions
are welcome to help us cater to your professional interests.
Please e-mail your suggestions to
pbrawn@nceltr.mq.edu.au
Our new addition to the Professional Connections is:
AMEP COUNSELLOR HOMEPAGE
This is a professional website for Educational Counsellors
in the Adult Migrant English Program (AMEP) in Australia.
It has news, information and resources to support
the work of AMEP Educational Counsellors.
It contains a contacts database with information
about organisations providing services to newly arrived
immigrants, and a discussion forum available only
to AMEP Counsellors.
Visit: http://www.nceltr.mq.edu.au/counsellors/index.html
ASSESSMENT HOMEPAGE
http://www.nceltr.mq.edu.au/ahp
FOCUS FOR 2007:
Our focus this year is on language in employment
related contexts. If you have any tasks that assess
language in areas that relate to employment,
these would be particularly welcome.
PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT KIT REVIEW:
We will be undertaking a review of the Professional
Development in Assessment kit that is currently available
on the Assessment Home Page website. If you have used
any of the workshops currently available and have any
feedback we would love to hear from you. If you have
never looked at them - now would be a good time to do so!
If you have any feedback on the Task Bank,
new tasks or general queries please contact us at:
ahp@nceltr.mq.edu.au
PUBLICATIONS
NEW PUBLICATIONS from NCELTR Publishing:
To order publications please email
muammer.ulukan@mq.edu.au
or phone 02 9850 7966
Our catalogue is available at
http://www.nceltr.mq.edu.au/publications/Catalogue.pdf
PROJECT BASED TEACHING WITH TECHNOLOGY
This book, from the Teaching with New Technology series,
presents the view that social computing helps implement
the objectives of project-based language teaching, in
environments where learners previously had few
opportunities for social language use. This book will help
teachers implement project-oriented CALL as well as
understanding the rationale behind it and the role
technology can play in this approach.
ISBN 978 1 74138 205 1
FOCUS ON VOCABULARY
Focus on Vocabulary examines the teaching and learning
of vocabulary for learners of English as a second or foreign
language where English is the language of instruction.
It explores vocabulary from a theoretical and historical
perspective and, offers practical suggestions for teaching
as well as a range of vocabulary tests and an academic
word list.
ISBN 978 1 74138 208 2
STAY SAFE SERIES
This new series of full colour readers provides survival
information on topics of interest to refugees and migrants
with very low levels of English. The readers are highly
pictorial to accommodate the 0+ learner. Each page has
an illustration and a maximum of 10 words. There is a
word bank at the back of each book to help the learner
extend their everyday vocabulary.
Christine Adby, Laura Chapman, Leanne Zuvich
The kitchen
978 1 74138 230 3
The living room and bedroom
978 1 74138 231 0
The bathroom and laundry
978 1 74138 232 7
NEW FACT SHEETS AVAILABLE NOW
TEACHING STRATEGIES - 6.
Working with continuous enrolment.
TEACHING STRATEGIES - 7.
Professional development through reflective practice.
COUNTRY PROFILE 10.
Burma.
All fact sheets are available for free at:
http://www.nceltr.mq.edu.au/pdamep/factsheets.html
GET WISE SERIES
This new series of literacy materials has been developed
specifically with the AMEP 'youth' market in mind. It aims
to provide stimulating, topic-based supplementary
classroom material relevant to their needs and interests.
The series is comprised of:
your future: work and study;
your time out;
your money;
your communications;
your health and wellbeing;
you and me.
The first module in the series
"Your future: work and study"
is due to arrive in March 2007 and it covers:
an outline of the Australian education system;
learner pathways; career pathways; career goals;
the importance of skills and interest in job choices.
The module includes: DVD, workbook, CD,
classroom chart, teacher's notes.
To order your classroom set, please email
muammer.ulukan@mq.edu.au
INTERNET UPDATE
Google Maps Australia now provides an online mapping
service providing business listings, driving directions,
interactive maps and satellite imagery that are accessible
from a PC or mobile phone (free GMM software
is required for the latter).
http://maps.google.com.au/
e BULLETIN
Issue 11 March 2007
Welcome to the eleventh AMEP Research Centre e-Bulletin,
with news, items of interest, events, new resources and Web links.
New Director of the AMEP Research Centre
Professor Ingrid Piller has been appointed as Director
of the AMEP Research Centre and will take up her
appointment in mid April. Professor Piller is currently
Professor and Head of Department of English
Sociolinguistics at Basel University in Switzerland.
She was previously at the University of Sydney
from 2000-2005 where she was a Senior Lecturer,
and at Hamburg University from 1997 - 2000
where she was an Assistant Professor.
For Professor Piller's publications visit:
http://pages.unibas.ch/anglist/people/teachers/piller.htm
RESEARCH
Special Projects Research Program for 2005-06 is
now almost complete, with reports and publications
in process for final publication in 2007. The findings of
these projects have been reported at National Forums
and AMEP Conferences in 2005 and 2006, and can be
accessed at:
http://www.nceltr.mq.edu.au/conference/preconferences.html
and
http://www.nceltr.mq.edu.au/pdamep/nat_for/index.html
The Special Projects Research Program 2007-08
developed in consultation with the Department of
Immigration & Citizenship and AMEP Service Provider
Heads is in final stages of completion. Information about
the research program will be distributed to all AMEP Service
Provider heads, and will be available by the end of March at:
http://www.nceltr.mq.edu.au/research/research_frames.htm
AMEP RC Research coordinators will soon be in touch
with people and organisations nominated to participate
in projects of interest to them.
For enquiries about the research program contact
pamela.mcpherson@mq.edu.au
PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT
The Professional Development program for 2007 is as follows:
17-18 May
AMEP National Forum 1
Learners in Transition
Venue: TAFE SA English Language Services, Adelaide
12 - 13 July
Specialist Skills Course
Reframing Communicative Language Teaching
Venue: La Trobe University
Melbourne
30 July - 7 September
Teaching Skills Development Course
Integrating Numeracy
Venue: On-line delivery
4 - 6 October
AMEP National Conference
Changing Identities: Changing Needs
Venue: Mooloolaba Centre, Sunshine Coast
Institute of TAFE, Queensland
Confirmed guest speakers include:
Plenary speaker:
Professor Tracey Derwing
Featured Speakers:
Professor Frank Hardman
Hayo Reinders
Margaret Piper
15 - 16 November
AMEP National Forum 2
Orientation to Work and English in the AMEP
Venue: Canberra Institute of Technology, Canberra
Contact: amep@nceltr.mq.edu.au
Phone 02 9850 9645
www.nceltr.mq.edu.au/pdamep
AMEP National Forum II/2006 - Report
The report on the National Forum on Learners from Africa
(Hobart: November 2006) is now on our website at
http://www.nceltr.mq.edu.au/pdamep/nat_for/index.html
PROFESSIONAL CONNECTIONS
http://www.nceltr.mq.edu.au/pdamep/
Visit your professional website and be part of the
community of teaching. Your suggestions and contributions
are welcome to help us cater to your professional interests.
Please e-mail your suggestions to
pbrawn@nceltr.mq.edu.au
Our new addition to the Professional Connections is:
AMEP COUNSELLOR HOMEPAGE
This is a professional website for Educational Counsellors
in the Adult Migrant English Program (AMEP) in Australia.
It has news, information and resources to support
the work of AMEP Educational Counsellors.
It contains a contacts database with information
about organisations providing services to newly arrived
immigrants, and a discussion forum available only
to AMEP Counsellors.
Visit: http://www.nceltr.mq.edu.au/counsellors/index.html
ASSESSMENT HOMEPAGE
http://www.nceltr.mq.edu.au/ahp
FOCUS FOR 2007:
Our focus this year is on language in employment
related contexts. If you have any tasks that assess
language in areas that relate to employment,
these would be particularly welcome.
PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT KIT REVIEW:
We will be undertaking a review of the Professional
Development in Assessment kit that is currently available
on the Assessment Home Page website. If you have used
any of the workshops currently available and have any
feedback we would love to hear from you. If you have
never looked at them - now would be a good time to do so!
If you have any feedback on the Task Bank,
new tasks or general queries please contact us at:
ahp@nceltr.mq.edu.au
PUBLICATIONS
NEW PUBLICATIONS from NCELTR Publishing:
To order publications please email
muammer.ulukan@mq.edu.au
or phone 02 9850 7966
Our catalogue is available at
http://www.nceltr.mq.edu.au/publications/Catalogue.pdf
PROJECT BASED TEACHING WITH TECHNOLOGY
This book, from the Teaching with New Technology series,
presents the view that social computing helps implement
the objectives of project-based language teaching, in
environments where learners previously had few
opportunities for social language use. This book will help
teachers implement project-oriented CALL as well as
understanding the rationale behind it and the role
technology can play in this approach.
ISBN 978 1 74138 205 1
FOCUS ON VOCABULARY
Focus on Vocabulary examines the teaching and learning
of vocabulary for learners of English as a second or foreign
language where English is the language of instruction.
It explores vocabulary from a theoretical and historical
perspective and, offers practical suggestions for teaching
as well as a range of vocabulary tests and an academic
word list.
ISBN 978 1 74138 208 2
STAY SAFE SERIES
This new series of full colour readers provides survival
information on topics of interest to refugees and migrants
with very low levels of English. The readers are highly
pictorial to accommodate the 0+ learner. Each page has
an illustration and a maximum of 10 words. There is a
word bank at the back of each book to help the learner
extend their everyday vocabulary.
Christine Adby, Laura Chapman, Leanne Zuvich
The kitchen
978 1 74138 230 3
The living room and bedroom
978 1 74138 231 0
The bathroom and laundry
978 1 74138 232 7
NEW FACT SHEETS AVAILABLE NOW
TEACHING STRATEGIES - 6.
Working with continuous enrolment.
TEACHING STRATEGIES - 7.
Professional development through reflective practice.
COUNTRY PROFILE 10.
Burma.
All fact sheets are available for free at:
http://www.nceltr.mq.edu.au/pdamep/factsheets.html
GET WISE SERIES
This new series of literacy materials has been developed
specifically with the AMEP 'youth' market in mind. It aims
to provide stimulating, topic-based supplementary
classroom material relevant to their needs and interests.
The series is comprised of:
your future: work and study;
your time out;
your money;
your communications;
your health and wellbeing;
you and me.
The first module in the series
"Your future: work and study"
is due to arrive in March 2007 and it covers:
an outline of the Australian education system;
learner pathways; career pathways; career goals;
the importance of skills and interest in job choices.
The module includes: DVD, workbook, CD,
classroom chart, teacher's notes.
To order your classroom set, please email
muammer.ulukan@mq.edu.au
INTERNET UPDATE
Google Maps Australia now provides an online mapping
service providing business listings, driving directions,
interactive maps and satellite imagery that are accessible
from a PC or mobile phone (free GMM software
is required for the latter).
http://maps.google.com.au/
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