Gillian Pennington
Biographic Data
| ID | 6327987 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Gillian Pennington |
| GIVEN NAMES | Gillian |
| FAMILY NAME | Pennington |
| SIGNATURE | PENNINGTON G |
| AFFILIATIONS | Independent Researcher & Consultant |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 3 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 3 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Starting small
In Australian schools, approximately 20% of young children are emergent bilinguals, who are simultaneously developing their home languages while learning through English. While many teachers recognise the benefits of multilingual teaching approaches in culturally and linguistically diverse classrooms, there remains a significant level of uncertainty about how to enact them. These approaches depend heavily on teachers’ ability to leverage young le…
Pedagogical translanguaging as "troublesome knowledge" in teacher education
This paper reports on the shifts in understanding experienced by participants in a postgraduate initial teacher education course designed around pedagogical translanguaging as a core theoretical and pedagogical concept. Throughout the semester-long unit, teacher education students engaged with culturally and linguistically responsive teaching approaches by reflecting upon and shifting their understandings of how plurilingual students’ home langua…
Effective practice in EAL education
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Pedagogical translanguaging as "troublesome knowledge" in teacher education
This paper reports on the shifts in understanding experienced by participants in a postgraduate initial teacher education course designed around pedagogical translanguaging as a core theoretical and pedagogical concept. Throughout the semester-long unit, teacher education students engaged with culturally and linguistically responsive teaching approaches by reflecting upon and shifting their understandings of how plurilingual students’ home langua…
Effective practice in EAL education
Starting small
In Australian schools, approximately 20% of young children are emergent bilinguals, who are simultaneously developing their home languages while learning through English. While many teachers recognise the benefits of multilingual teaching approaches in culturally and linguistically diverse classrooms, there remains a significant level of uncertainty about how to enact them. These approaches depend heavily on teachers’ ability to leverage young le…
Pedagogy (3 works) · EFL/ESL Teaching and Learning (2 works) · Mathematics education (2 works) · Multilingual Education and Policy (2 works) · Psychology (2 works) · Second Language Learning and Teaching (2 works) · Sociology (2 works) · Translanguaging (2 works) · Computer Science (1 work) · Digital Storytelling and Education (1 work)