Dr Anne-Marie Morgan is currently working at the Research Centre for Languages and Cultures at the University of South Australia on a range of national language projects. She has many years experience teaching Indonesian, drama, music, ESL and cultural studies.
Michelle Kohler is an experienced secondary teacher of Indonesian and now researcher at UniSA. She has worked as language advisor and was a member of the writing teams for the Standards for Languages Teaching. Her PhD study focuses on how classroom interaction contributes to intercultural teaching and learning.
Dr Lesley Harbon is Associate Dean (International) and teaches pre-service undergraduate and postgraduate languages curriculum of study in the University of Sydney. She is currently President of the AFMLTA and her research focuses on intercultural language education. She is a near native speaker of Indonesian.
Focus on intercultural language learning. The series places students’ linguistic and cultural identity at the centre and explicitly develops their meta-linguistic awareness and cultural understandings as well as their intercultural capability
Focus on a developmental view of language learning. A number of strands (e.g. linguistic, cognitive, interaction) become increasingly sophisticated within each year and across the years (i.e. it is sequential and cumulative).
Plenty of photographic material for reflection, study and learning. Photos are relevant to the topics and facilitate making connections, classroom interaction and student's engagement.
Many digital resources with meaningful tasks to further engage students and facilitate the consolidation of language points as well as offering useful research material for presentation and assessment.