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 Litercies: 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
Learning through languages: Plurilingual pedagogy in the English classroom
Turner, M., Keary, A. & Tour, K.
Department of Education and Training (VIC)
13/03/20 → 30/07/21
Project: Research
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
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
Supporting EAL teachers’ pedagogies for digital literacies: evaluation and improvement of the Transmedia Storytelling Toolkit
23/04/18 → 20/12/19
Project: Research
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
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
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 Access
File
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
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
Supporting primary school children’s learning in digital spaces at home: migrant parents’ perspectives and practices
Tour, E., Jun 2019, (Accepted/In press) In : Children and Society. 15 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › Research › peer-review
Prizes
Australian Postgraduate Award (2010)
Katrina Tour (Recipient), 2010
Prize: Prize (including medals and awards)
Dean's Award for Programs that Enhance learning (2016)
Katrina Tour (Recipient), 22 Nov 2016
Prize: Prize (including medals and awards)
Excellence in Teaching Award (2003)
Katrina Tour (Recipient), 2003
Prize: Prize (including medals and awards)
Monash Education Academy Development Grant (2016)
Katrina Tour (Recipient), 1 Oct 2016
Prize: Prize (including medals and awards)
Activities
Australian Council of TESOL Associations (ACTA) Conference 2018
Katrina Tour (Speaker)3 Oct 2018 → 5 Oct 2018
Activity: Participating in or organising an event types › Contribution to workshop, seminar, course
New Arrivals Program Professional Learning Conference (Department of Education and Training)
Katrina Tour (Invited speaker)1 Jun 2018
Activity: Participating in or organising an event types › Contribution to workshop, seminar, course
Routledge (Publisher)
Katrina Tour (Peer reviewer)1 Jul 2014
Activity: Publication peer-review and editorial work types › Peer review responsibility
Literacy Research Association (Publisher)
Katrina Tour (Peer reviewer)1 Jul 2014
Activity: Publication peer-review and editorial work types › Peer review responsibility
The University of Waikato (Publisher)
Katrina Tour (Peer reviewer)1 Jul 2014
Activity: Publication peer-review and editorial work types › Peer review responsibility
Press / Media
How to help your kids with homework (without doing it for them)
24/01/20 → 4/02/20
5 Media contributions
Press/Media: Article/Feature
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
DER’s response to proposed changes in the Victorian EAL Curriculum
29/08/19
1 Media contribution
Press/Media: Expert Comment