Day1: Oct 30, 2026 (Fri) – Keynote Speaker
Dr David Marsh
CEO, MED Finland
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David Marsh PhD has been instrumental in developing innovative language teaching and learning practices for some years, including the launch of the educational approach Content and Language Integrated Learning (CLIL). Since 2009 he has contributed to activities organized by the Japan CLIL Pedagogy Association. Based in Finland he currently works in Europe, Mexico, and Qatar on exploring how to adapt languages education to suit the needs of Generations Z and Alpha; designing programs that attract young people towards learning additional languages; nurturing student and teacher wellbeing; and building future-readiness skills into school and college curricula.
https://davidmarsh.education
Day2: Oct 31, 2026 (Sat) – Keynote Speaker
Dr. Julie Choi
Associate Professor, Additional Languages, Faculty of Education, The University of Melbourne, Victoria
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Julie Choi is an Associate Professor in Language and Literacy Education at the University of Melbourne and the developer of Arts-Rich Translanguaging Pedagogy. A teacher educator and critical applied linguist, she teaches across the Master of Teaching, TESOL, and Modern Languages Education, and works with parents, young learners, low literacy learners, and second-generation speakers in community settings. She researches the embodied, affective, and aesthetic dimensions of multilingual meaning-making for language and literacy learning, including the role of digital tools and AI, and is the author of multilingual picture books, including Kimchi Is for Everyone, that open up language and literacy practices for the reclamation of voice, identity, and belonging among multilingual speakers.
