Rethinking "Authentic" Intercultural Engagement in a Post-mobility World
Presentation Summary
This paper addresses international physical immobility brought about by the COVID-19 pandemic and its consequences for university language programs across Australia from the perspectives of three key stakeholder groups: 1) university language students; 2) academic staff; and 3) professional staff working in internationalisation strategies.
Primary Presenter
Adriana Diaz, The University of Queensland
State (if in the U.S.)
QLD
Country
Australia
Professional Biography
Adriana R. Díaz is Senior Lecturer in the Spanish and Latin American Studies Program at the University of Queensland. Her research centres on learning more about how insights from critical pedagogy and decolonial critique can help us un/re-learn the ways in which we engage with languages education.
Secondary Presenters
Marisa Cordella, The University of Queensland
State (if in the U.S.)
Country
Australia
Professional Biography
Marisa Cordella is Associate Professor in Spanish linguistics at the University of Queensland. She holds a PhD in Linguistics from Monash University. Her research expertise and postgraduate supervision lie primarily in the field of discourse analysis: medical communication, intercultural and intergenerational communication, ageing across cultures, language education and translation studies.
Barbara E. Hanna, The University of Queensland
State (if in the U.S.)
Queensland
Country
Australia
Professional Biography
Barbara E. Hanna is Senior Lecturer in French at The University of Queensland. She works on language learners’ presentation of their identity, particularly online and in their narratives of Study Abroad experiences. She is co-author of Learning language and culture via public internet discussion forums (with Juliana de Nooy) (2009) and has presented and published on Study Abroad testimonials and on the representation of SA in terms of employability.
Anna Mikhaylova, The University of Queensland
State (if in the U.S.)
Country
Australia
Professional Biography
Anna Mikhaylova is Lecturer in Russian at The University of Queensland. Her research interests include cognitive, social and pedagogical implications of bilingualism in its broad sense and specifically in the similarities and differences between language development in second language learners and heritage speakers.
Samantha Disbray, The University of Queensland
State (if in the U.S.)
Country
Australia
Professional Biography
Samantha Disbray is Lecturer in Endangered Languages at the School of Languages and Cultures at The University of Queensland. She has worked as a community, education and research linguist in Central Australia for two decades. Among her research insterests is Indigenous languages in education policy and practice.