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SUMMARY:WATESOL AGM
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  WATESOL members\, voting in the 2026 committee and celebrating another ye
 ar of association activities.  Weather permitting\, attendees are invited
  to join in barefoot bowls after the formal proceedings are over.\n\nMembe
 rs are invited to nominate to join the committee. Nomination forms will be
  emailed and also available at the meeting. This year we are particularly 
 seeking ATAR EALD teachers who can help with the coordination of exam writ
 ing and the Good Answer Guide. Training provided.\n\nGuest presenters: Fa
 ding Footprints: Tracing EAL/D Teaching Courses at Australian universities
 \n\nThis presentation is based on a national research project funded by th
 e Australian Council of TESOL Associations (ACTA) in 2024/2025. The projec
 t seeks to investigate why universities in Australia are not preparing Ini
 tial Teacher Education (ITE) students for the demands of teaching EAL/D st
 udents in schools. It responds to current media announcements (Bulter\, 20
 22\; Neilsen &amp\; Weinmann\, 2022\; The Educator\, 2022\; Steele\, 2023)
 \, industry stakeholder concerns\, and personal communications which have 
 drawn attention to the chronic shortage of teachers emerging with EAL/D qu
 alifications or even knowledge gained from single units of study relevant 
 to teaching multilingual migrants or international students across Austral
 ia.\n\nProgress on the project to date has taken the form of an audit of a
 ll the courses offered by universities nationally in the ITE space (How do
  Australian universities prepare pre-service teachers to teach EAL/D to mu
 ltilingual learners in Australian classrooms?)\, recently published in a S
 pecial Issue of TESOL in Context (33/2\, 2025)\,  collection of data thro
 ugh a national scoping survey building on the last 2016 survey (ACTA\, 202
 2\, p. 17). The second phase of the project is already underway\, intervie
 wing thirty or more EAL/D teachers\, leaders in schools\, and academics in
 volved with language education in universities across Australia. Our prese
 ntation will highlight the findings so far from our analysis of such large
 -scale data\, further discussion about the implications of the findings an
 d recommendations for ways forward in terms of advocacy in this space.\n\n
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