The LCNAU congratulates with the recipients of the 2025 Patji-Dawes Award. The 2025 awardees are
– Jannette McCormack (Arrernte, ASCL)
– Hiroko Oashi (Japanese, RMIT)
– Jindan Ni (Mandarin, RMIT)
The recipient of the Patji-Dawes Certificate of Commendation is Natalia Batova (Russian, University of Melbourne).
The purpose of the Patji-Dawes Language Teaching Award is to honour outstanding achievements in teaching languages by an accomplished practitioner or team of practitioners in Australia. The teaching may take place in any setting – school, university, private language school, government department, Indigenous community, Community language centre. What matters is that the learner is led, by the teacher’s inspiration, to a moderate to high level of accomplishment in the chosen language.
