Associate Professor Angela Scarino

• Applied linguistics; language assessment; intercultural learning; international education; curriculum theory and design; teacher education.

Applied Linguistics Association of Australia (ALAA)

Australian Federation of Modern Language Teachers' Association (AFTMLTA), member of the Executive and Editor 1991-1996, President 1997-2002, Immediate past president 2003.

Modern Language Teachers Association of South Australia

Australian Educational Research Association

American Educational Research Association

Australian College of Education

BA (Honours), University of Adelaide 1976

Diploma in Education, University of Adelaide 1977

PhD (near completion) Department of Lingusitics and Applied Linguistics, University of Melbourne in the field of language testing

• Languages assessment; intercultural learning in international education; program evaluation.

Scarino, A. 'Introspection and retrospection as windows on teacher knowledge, values and ethical dispositions'. Book chapter in D.J. Tedick (ed) 2005 Second Language Teacher Education: International Perspectives. Lawrence Erlbaum Associates.

We left (E partimmo). Narratives of the sangiorgesi in Australia 1927-2003. (with A. Mercurio). Book published in 2004 by the San Giorgio Community Centre.

'Report on assessing student outcomes in Asian Languages (Japanese and Indonesian)' (with K. Hill, T. McNamara, N. Iwashita and A. Scrimgeour). Report submitted to Department of Education Science and Training (DEST), January 2004. nalsas@dest.gov.au

'Standards in Teaching Languages and Cultures' (with L. Papademetre and J. Dellit). Report submitted to DECS, January 2004.

'Report on intercultural language learning'. (with A. Liddicoat, L. Papademetre and M. Kohler). Reported submitted to DEST, 2003.

Languages Focus Schools Report. Report submitted to DECS, 2003.

'Ideologies, Languages, Policies: Australia's ambivalent relationship with learning to communicate in 'other' languages'. In J.Lo Bianco and R. Wickert, Eds. 2001. Australian Policy Activism, Melbourne: Language Australia. pp.307-325. Book chapter with L. Papademetre.

'The SACSA Framework: The Vision and the Context' in the SACSA Framework, Department of Education, Training and Employment (DETE), pp.5-38, 2000. (with A. Reid)

Integrating Culture Learning in the Languages Classroom. National Language and Literacy Institute of Australia. Book - 2000, with L. Papademetre.

Scarino, A. and Mercurio, A. (2004) ‘E partimmo’. Paper to be published in D. O’Connor (Ed) Proceedings of the Second Conference on the Impact of Italians in Australia.

Scarino A. and Mercurio, A. (In press 2004) Heritage Languages at upper secondary level in South Australia: a struggle for legitimacy. Paper to be published in a special issue of the International Journal of Bilingual Education and Bilingualism (Editor: Nancy Hornberger).

Scarino A. (In press 2004). Teacher judgments: going beyond criteria for judging performance.

Scarino, A. and Papademetre, L. (2004) Developing professional standards for teachers of languages and cultures: who prescribes and who ascribes in the profession? Australian Language and Literacy Matters.

Scarino, A, (In press 2004). The role of teachers as mediators of languages and cultures in education. (To appear in Babel).

Scarino, A. 2003. Transition and continuity in learning languages in the school setting: an issue of context, culture and communication. Babel Vol.38, No.1 pp 4-8 and 38.

I am able to provide media comment in the following areas of expertise:

Discipline: Languages, Education

• Intercultural communication
• Language Assessment
• Language and Learning
• Language in education
• Multiculturalism/intercultural studies
• Applied Linguistics
• Internationalisation
• Education