FL2 Team

FL2 Project Team

Antonella Strambi

Antonella Strambi has taught and researched Second Language Teaching methodology for over 15 years. She has a keen interest in the nexus between psychology and communication, as well as in the ways in which technology can be best used to support language learning. She has been the recipient of three Flinders University Teaching and Learning Innovation grants, and has developed several online resources as part of these projects. Antonella is currently working as an Academic Developer in the Teaching Innovation Unit at the University of South Australia.

Ann Luzeckyj

Ann Luzeckyj is Senior Lecturer in Higher Education: First Year Undergraduate Teaching Adviser in the Centre for Innovation in Learning and Teaching at Flinders University. She has worked in higher education for over 20 years in both Australia and England, in libraries (in a range of different roles) and as a lecturer and tutor. She has been involved in a number of grants as a research assistant; researcher and has led projects related supporting first year students; preparing academics to teach in universities and redeveloping curriculum. Ann has also been the recipient of an OLT citation.

Antonia Rubino

Antonia Rubino is Associate Professor in Italian at the University of Sydney, where she teaches Applied Linguistics and Italian as a Second Language. She has conducted extensive research in bilingualism and trilingualism focusing on the Italo-Australian community and various educational contexts. She has co-authored a junior course of Italian in use in Australian secondary schools (Pronti, via!), and is currently involved in an AILA Research Network on “Social and Affective Factors in Home Language Maintenance and Development".

Joy Tennant

Joy Tennant worked as the FL2 Project Manager during the first year of the project, in 2016.

Collaborators

As a result of the FL2 dissemination activities, a number of language educators have translated the FL2 activities into additional languages and piloted them with their students. While not part of the initial FL2 Project Team, the following academics have collaborated with us on new piloting and evaluation projects, which have also led to academic presentations and publications (listed in the Project Resources section of this website).

Anna Gadd

Anna Gadd has been Chair Discipline of Spanish Studies at The University of Western Australia since its inception in 2017. She also coordinates the Graduate Translation Studies degrees at the same university. Anna studied Spanish and English Studies, translation curriculum at Università degli Studi di Milano and Universidad Complutense de Madrid and has over 15 years of teaching experience.

Javier Diaz-Martinez

Javier Diaz-Martinez is a Lecturer in Spanish Language at Flinders University. He is also the Discipline Lead for Applied Linguistics and TESOL, and Coordinator of the Master of Language Studies at the same university. Javier has extensive experience in teaching and language teacher development, as well as in innovative curriculum design and is the current President of the Spanish Teachers' Association of South Australia.

Reference Group

International Advisory Group

Professor John Hajek is Professor of Italian and a linguist in the School of Languages and Linguistics at the University of Melbourne. He has held research fellowships in the UK and Australia. He is currently director of RUMACCC (Research Unit for Multilingualism and Cross-cultural Communication) and is founding president of LCNAU (Languages and Cultures Network for Australian Universities), which is the result of an OLT-funded project. He is a Fellow of the Australian Academy of the Humanities, and has led numerous research projects commissioned, or funded by, public bodies, such as the Victorian Department of Education and Training.

Associate Professor Helen Askell-Williams is Associate Dean (Research) in the School of Education at Flinders University, Director of the Flinders Educational Futures Research Institute, and a member of the Flinders Centre for Student Wellbeing and Prevention of Violence. Assoc. Prof. Askell-Williams has worked on collaborative research projects that have investigated teachers' and learners' knowledge and wellbeing, and has published extensively in this area.

Associate Professor Jacquelyn Cranney, from the School of Psychology at the University of New South Wales, has been involved in a number of Carrick and ALTC initiatives. She is Project Leader (with Dr. Annie Andrews) of the recent OLT-funded project “Curriculum Renewal to Build Student Resilience and Success”, and has conducted extensive research on the psychological aspects of student learning and performance.

Associate Professor Anthony Grant is the founder and director of the world's first Coaching Psychology Unit at the School of Psychology at Sydney University. His coaching research and practice has frequently been reported in the national and international media. He has co-written and co-edited five books on evidence-based coaching and has many coaching-related publications in the peer-reviewed and professional press. His books on coaching have been translated into eight languages, and he is widely recognised as a key pioneer of coaching psychology. He hosted the “Making Australia Happy” TV program, aired on ABC in 2010.

Associate Professor Angela Scarino is Associate Professor in Applied Linguistics, and the Director of the Research Centre for Languages and Cultures at the University of South Australia. She has been a Chief Investigator on a number of research grants, including assessing the intercultural and language learning (ARC Linkage 2006-2009) and Student Achievement in Asian Languages Education (DEEWR, 2009-2011). She is the author of the Shape Paper for Languages in the recently developed Australian Curriculum and the related curriculum Design Paper for Languages. She is currently the Chair of the Multicultural Education and Languages Committee, an advisory committee to the Minister for Education in South Australia.

Dr Annie Andrews is Director, Counselling and Psychological Services / Deputy Director Student Development, at the University of New South Wales. With Associate Professor Cranney, she led the OLT-funded project “Curriculum Renewal to Build Student Resilience and Success”. Project website University Student Success, Resilience and Wellbeing

Professor Jean-Marc Dewaele is Professor in Applied Linguistics and Multilingualism at Birkbeck College, University of London (UK). He is Editor-in-Chief of the International Journal of Bilingual Education and Bilingualism, and is on the editorial boards of prestigious academic journals (e.g. International Journal of Multilingualism; Canadian Modern Language Review) and book series (e.g. AILA, EuroSLA for John Benjamins; GRAMM-R, Studies of French Linguistics for Peter Lang). He has published extensively in the area of emotions and multilingualism, foreign language anxiety and foreign language enjoyment, and general motivation in foreign language learning.

Professor Rebecca L. Oxford is currently an adjunct professor and external evaluator for federal grants for the Graduate Degree Program for Teaching ESL at the University of Alabama at Birmingham (U.S.A.). She is a Professor of Language Education and Research at Air University in Montgomery, Alabama, and was named Professor Emerita and Distinguished Scholar-Teacher at the University of Maryland. She directed language programs at the University of Maryland, the University of Alabama, Columbia University, and Pennsylvania State University. She has published more than 160 articles and book chapters on language learners, learning technologies, culture, and teaching methods. She has presented keynotes and workshops at conferences in more than 40 countries. The Lifetime Achievement Award she received from Heinle/Thomson states, “Rebecca Oxford's research has changed the way the world teaches languages.”

Dr Sarah Mercer is Professor of Foreign Language Teaching (FLT), Head of English Language Teaching (ELT) Methodology at the University of Graz (Austria), and Deputy Head of the Centre for Teaching and Learning. She has published extensively in the area of language learning psychology, and is currently working on projects in the areas of language teacher psychology, CLIL and mindsets. Her recent publications include Psychology for Language Learning: Insights from Research, Theory and Practice, co-edited with Marion Williams and Stephen Ryan (Palgrave MacMillan), Toward an Understanding of Language Learner Self-Concept (Springer) and Exploring Psychology for Language Learning and Teaching, co-authored by Marion Williams and Stephen Ryan (Oxford University Press), which recently won the Ben Warren International House Trust Prize.

*Support for this project has been provided by the Australian Government Office for Learning and Teaching. The views in this project do not necessarily reflect the views of the Australian Government Office for Learning and Teaching.

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