Projects per year
Personal profile
Biography
Katrina is a lecturer in the Faculty of Education at Monash University. Her current research projects investigate how people use technologies and digital literacies for everyday life, work and learning in different languages and socio-cultural contexts. Her recent research focus is digital parenting. Katrina publishes in the field of digital literacies and TESOL and she is the author of Digital Literacies: EAL Teachers' Guide. She is a recepient of a number of professional awards. Katrina started her career in education as a school teacher in Belarus. Before moving to Australia, she taught English and Spanish in a variety of contexts from primary to tertiary education. She teaches in the Faculty's teacher education undergraduate and postgraduate programs.
Katrina's full profile can be found at the Digital Education Research Group website
Research interests
Digital literacies /new literacies
The use of digital technologies in language education including TESOL
Multimodality and visual pedagogies
Digital storytelling
Digital parenting
Critical pedagogy and technology
Sociocultural theories of language, technology and education
Visual research methodology
Research area keywords
- Digital/new literacies
- Literacy Studies
- Language education (incl. TESOL)
- Digital technologies
- digital parenting
Projects
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Learning through languages: Plurilingual pedagogy in the English classroom
Turner, M., Keary, A. & Tour, K.
Department of Education and Training (Victoria)
13/03/20 → 20/06/22
Project: Research
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Delivery of EMI Professional Learning Course for Northwestern Polytechnical University, China
Bonar, G., Tour, K., Bright, D. & Dang, K.
14/10/19 → 25/10/19
Project: Consultancy
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Professional Standards for Teachers of Online Live Language Training
Zhang, H., Chan, W., Jenkins, L. & Tour, K.
18/07/19 → 1/02/20
Project: Research
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Supporting EAL teachers’ pedagogies for digital literacies: evaluation and improvement of the Transmedia Storytelling Toolkit
23/04/18 → 20/12/19
Project: Research
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Digital literacies in EAL (English as an Additional Language) contexts: a survey of in-service teachers in Victoria (Australia)
1/02/17 → 20/12/17
Project: Research
Research Output
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Professional Standards for Teachers of Online Live English Teaching (OLET)
Zhang, H., Chan, P. W. K., Jenkins, L., Tour, K., Cutri, J., Dong, Z. & Hu, X., Jan 2020, Monash University. 118 p.Research output: Book/Report › Other Report › Research
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Teaching digital literacies in EAL/ESL classrooms: practical strategies
Tour, E., Mar 2020, In : TESOL Journal. 11, 1, 12 p., e00458.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › Other › peer-review
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EAL teachers’ professional learning about digital literacies: a socio-material perspective
Creely, E. & Tour, E., Mar 2019, SITE 2019: Proceedings of Society for Information Technology & Teacher Education International Conference. Graziano, K. (ed.). Waynesville NC USA: Association for the Advancement of Computing in Education (AACE), p. 1302-1309 8 p.Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference Paper › Research › peer-review
Open AccessFile -
Learning digital literacies through experiential digital storytelling in an EAL context: an exploratory study
Tour, E., Gindidis, M. & Newton, A., 2019, (Accepted/In press) In : Innovation in Language Learning and Teaching. 16 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › Research › peer-review
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Professional learning about technologies and digital literacies in the adult EAL sector
Tour, K. & Creely, E., 2019, Clayton Vic Australia: Monash University. 32 p.Research output: Book/Report › Other Report › Research
Prizes
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ACTA Conference Scholarship
Tour, Katrina (Recipient), 2018
Prize: Prize (including medals and awards)
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Australian Postgraduate Award (2010)
Tour, Katrina (Recipient), 2010
Prize: Prize (including medals and awards)
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Dean's Award for Programs that Enhance learning (2016)
Tour, Katrina (Recipient), 22 Nov 2016
Prize: Prize (including medals and awards)
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Excellence in Teaching Award (2003)
Tour, Katrina (Recipient), 2003
Prize: Prize (including medals and awards)
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Monash Education Academy Development Grant (2016)
Tour, Katrina (Recipient), 1 Oct 2016
Prize: Prize (including medals and awards)
Activities
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New Arrivals Program Professional Learning Conference (Department of Education and Training)
Katrina Tour (Invited speaker)
1 Jun 2018Activity: Participating in or organising an event types › Contribution to workshop, seminar, course
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Australian Council of TESOL Associations (ACTA) Conference 2018
Katrina Tour (Speaker)
3 Oct 2018 → 5 Oct 2018Activity: Participating in or organising an event types › Contribution to workshop, seminar, course
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The University of Waikato (Publisher)
Katrina Tour (Peer reviewer)
1 Jul 2014Activity: Publication peer-review and editorial work types › Peer review responsibility
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Routledge (Publisher)
Katrina Tour (Peer reviewer)
1 Jul 2014Activity: Publication peer-review and editorial work types › Peer review responsibility
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Literacy Research Association (Publisher)
Katrina Tour (Peer reviewer)
1 Jul 2014Activity: Publication peer-review and editorial work types › Peer review responsibility
Press / Media
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Five ideas for parents with young children in lockdown
17/08/20
1 Media contribution
Press/Media: Article/Feature
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How to help your kids with homework (without doing it for them)
24/01/20
1 Media contribution
Press/Media: Article/Feature
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How school-family-community partnerships strengthen learning in culturally diverse schools
Melissa Barnes, Katrina Tour & Robyn Babaeff
2/12/19
1 Media contribution
Press/Media: Article/Feature
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DER’s response to proposed changes in the Victorian EAL Curriculum
29/08/19
1 Media contribution
Press/Media: Expert Comment