| Title: |
Languages and cultures in the regions: A tribute to Ruth Nicholls (1947-2024). |
| Authors: |
Feez, Susan; Ellis, Elizabeth; Tasker, Isabel; Zuocheng Zhang; Harper, Helen |
| Source: |
TESOL in Context; 2025, Vol. 34 Issue 2, p5-25, 21p |
| Subject Terms: |
LANGUAGE & culture; MULTICULTURAL education |
| People: |
NICHOLLS, Ruth |
| Abstract: |
Multilingual and multicultural Australia is typically represented in urban settings. This representation is challenged by half a century of languages and multicultural teaching and research originating in Armidale in the New England region of NSW. From the 1970s to the present, educational institutions in Armidale have been leaders in the multicultural, TESOL and languages education fields, a tradition recorded in a manuscript prepared by Ruth Nicholls (1947-2024), a lecturer in TESOL and Languages at the Armidale College of Advanced Education (ACAE) and at the University of New England (UNE) from the early 1970s until her retirement in 2013. This manuscript, which accompanies a carefully documented archive, records innovation in applied linguistics, TESOL, languages and cultures education over decades, as well as productive collaboration between Armidale-based specialists working in these fields. This paper draws on Ruth's manuscript (Nicholls, ca. 2014) to trace TESOL, languages and cultures education and research in the New England region, extending the account up to the present and into regions beyond the New England. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR] |
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