PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES

  • MEDIA APPEARANCE
    Four online language courses to try in isolation and how to actually commit to your goal. news.com.au. (21 April 2020).
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    Mandarin now most popular foreign language in Victorian state schools. Sydney Morning Herald. (16 June 2019).
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    Will more Australians take on the challenge of learning another language? SBS News (radio). (14 November 2018).
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    Applications open for English Teaching Scholarships. Media release from the Northern Territory Minister for Education. (15 June 2018).
  • MEDIA APPEARANCE
    Why learn a language in Australia today? Michiko Weinmann & Ruth Arber: this, Deakin University. (26 September 2017)
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    This is what we need to do to boost languages learning in Australian schools. AARE EduResearch Matters. (21 November 2016).
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    Researchers encourage learning a new language for new year. Whitehorse Leader. (4 January 2016).
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    What should be at the top of your New Years resolution list? news.com.au (3 January 2016).
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    Stereotypes alive and well in classrooms. The Age (October 20, 2008).
  • AFFILIATION
    Centre for Teaching and Learning Languages
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    Research for Educational Impact (REDI)
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    Australian Association for Research in Education (AARE)
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    American Education Research Association (AERA)
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    Australian and New Zealand Comparative and International Education Society (ANCZIES)
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    Australian Council of TESOL Associations (ACTA) Co-editor of TESOL in Context
  • AWARDS AND HONOURS
    2003 Monash Education Alumni Award (Doctoral)
  • AWARDS AND HONOURS
    1996/2000 Australian Postgraduate Award
  • CONFERENCE ORGANISING
    Weinmann, M., Kanaizumi, R. & Arber, R. (2018). Navigating language, culture and internationalisation: (Re)Orientating English language education in Japan. Paper presented at Colloquium Language ideologies and practices in Asia: Exploring the global East-West dichotomy, at the Sociolinguistics Symposium 22, University of Auckland, 2730 June.
  • CONFERENCE ORGANISING
    Weinmann, M. & Arber. R. (2018). Orientating Multilingualism: Navigating Language teacher identities. Paper presented at Symposium Education for Cultural Diversity: International Perspectives on Changing Policy and Curriculum Engagement, American Educational Research Association Annual Meeting, New York, 1317 April 201
  • CONFERENCE ORGANISING
    Neilsen, R.P. Weinmann, M., & Arber, R. (2018). Navigating the Languages education policy landscape: traversing the gap between contention and practice. Sociolinguistics Symposium 22, Auckland, New Zealand.
  • PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITY
    2012 - ongoing Assoc. Editor TESOL in Context
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    2012 Co-Convener 2012 TASA Sociology of Education symposium "Disrupting inequality: What has and what can Sociology of Education do to make a difference?". 2009 Committee Member Victorian Association for Teachers of Multicultural Education (VATME)
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    2003/4 Secretary, Australian Association for Research in Education (AARE) 2004 Melbourne Conference Committee
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    2003 Reviews Editor, TESOL in Context, Journal of Australian Council of TESOL Associations
  • PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITY
    1995 2000 Committee Member, Victorian Association for Teachers of Multicultural Education (VATME)