Learn how to teach Literacy and Numeracy to Adults

The adult literacy and numeracy stream of the Graduate Diploma in TESOL and Applied Linguistics at the University of Technology Sydney is a course for people who want to develop the knowledge and skills to teach English language, literacy and numeracy to adults in...

Read aloud programs for cancer patients research

Thank you to Elizabeth Wells, a PhD Candidate at UniSA, who has provided us with this preview of her work that considers the therapeutic benefits of reading for cancer patients. Receiving a cancer diagnosis is at best shocking, and at worst totally overwhelming....

An innovative approach to complex forms

Hastings Neighbourhood Service coordinator Julie Trowbridge recognised that many people in her local communities needed assistance filling in everyday forms which are unfortunately complex. In response, she worked with her team and volunteers to set up the LEAF...
Interview – Dave Tout

Interview – Dave Tout

Interview link available to members here Literacy + language + mathematics = numeracy There is enough evidence that numeracy needs to stand out in LLN in its own right … research shows that low numeracy can have a more powerful effect in a range of areas than...
Interview – Mary Wallace

Interview – Mary Wallace

Interview link available to members here How do you start your career as a bilingual engineer and end up as director of one of Australia’s most prominent and well-known literacy RTOs and audit bodies? In this interview Mary Wallace shares her surprising pathway into...
Interview – Philippa McLean

Interview – Philippa McLean

Interview link available to members here “I don’t feel sorry for learners – I am genuinely interested in them and I believe they absolutely have the right to literacy and numeracy, and to good quality literacy and numeracy” This week I had the...