How Indigenous schoolchildren, kids from CALD backgrounds navigate language diversity

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Jill Wigglesworth is a Redmond Barry Distinguished Professor in the School of Languages and Linguistics at the University of Melbourne

Conversation with the University of Melbourne's Professor Jill Wigglesworth about translanguaging, language as a vehicle for diversity, equity, and inclusion.


NITV Radio caught up with Professor Jill Wigglesworth on the sidelines of an international in Perth (24-27/06/2024).

The event, described as the world’s biggest of its kind brings together over 500 delegates from 53 countries to discuss language and society's connection.

Professor Wigglesworth’s research focusses on the multilingual languages contexts of Australian Indigenous children living in remote communities, and the linguistic challenges they face on entering the English-based, school system

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