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Dr Adriana Diaz
Dr

Adriana Diaz

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Overview

Background

I am originally from Buenos Aires, Argentina where I achieved a tertiary level degree as a teacher of English as a Foreign Language. In the year 2000, after completing these studies, I came to Australia as an international student to complete a BA (Hons) in Languages and Applied Linguistics. I then continued my postgraduate studies in the area of critical intercultural language pedagogy. For nearly two decades, I have been involved in teaching across Applied Linguistics, English, Italian and Spanish language programs in Australian higher education. I am a passionate languages and intercultural education scholar whose theoretical and empirical work centre on how insights from critical pedagogy and decolonial theories can help us un/re-learn the ways in which we engage with the world. In my teaching practice, I am committed to creating innovative and inclusive, liberatory learning experiences for language learners and fellow language educators to become critically aware of intersectional, power-bound dynamics in everyday interaction.

Availability

Dr Adriana Diaz is:
Available for supervision

Qualifications

  • Bachelor of Arts, Griffith University
  • Bachelor (Honours), Griffith University
  • Doctor of Philosophy, Griffith University

Research interests

  • Critical, Decolonial Language Pedagogies

    Approaches to language learning and teaching that challenge traditional, Eurocentric views of 'language,' prioritizing social justice, inclusivity, and equity through a critical examination of power structures, cultural hierarchies, and historical contexts that have marginalised certain languages and knowledge systems.

  • Intercultural language learning

    Educational approach that fosters critical reflection on cultural diversity, aiming to build communicative competence and intercultural sensitivity essential for effective interaction in a globalised world.

  • Critical Translation Studies

    A lens through which to advance language studies as a socially situated act that reflects and influences power dynamics, cultural representation, and ideology. This perspective views translation as a transformative process, highlighting issues of ethics, agency, and cultural bias, and urging a critical awareness of its role in shaping narratives.

Works

Search Professor Adriana Diaz’s works on UQ eSpace

38 works between 2008 and 2024

1 - 20 of 38 works

2024

Book Chapter

Defying Deficit Views of Literacy through RefugeeCrit and Multicultural Literacies,

Veliz, Leonardo, Heinrichs Henry, Danielle and Diaz, Adriana R. (2024). Defying Deficit Views of Literacy through RefugeeCrit and Multicultural Literacies,. Reimagining Literacies Pedagogy in the Twenty-first Century Reimagining Literacies Pedagogy in the Twenty-first Century - Theorizing and Enacting Multiple Literacies for English Language Learners. edited by Leonardo Veliz, Miguel Farias and Michelle Picard. London, United Kingdom: Bloomsbury.

Defying Deficit Views of Literacy through RefugeeCrit and Multicultural Literacies,

2024

Book Chapter

(Re)centring Diversity in Language Pedagogies through Open Access Educational Resources

Diaz, Adriana (2024). (Re)centring Diversity in Language Pedagogies through Open Access Educational Resources. Multiculturalism and Multilingualism in Education. (pp. 192-211) Leiden, Netherlands: Brill. doi: 10.1163/9789004709850_011

(Re)centring Diversity in Language Pedagogies through Open Access Educational Resources

2024

Journal Article

Introduction to the Special Issue: Pluriversalizing the Teaching and Learning of Spanish

Veliz, Leonardo, Díaz, Adriana Raquel and Heinrichs, Danielle H. (2024). Introduction to the Special Issue: Pluriversalizing the Teaching and Learning of Spanish. Critical Multilingualism Studies, 11 (2), i-xvi.

Introduction to the Special Issue: Pluriversalizing the Teaching and Learning of Spanish

2023

Journal Article

The (im)possibility of breaking the cycle of rippling circularities affecting Australian language education programs: a Queensland example

Díaz, Adriana R., Fillmore, Naomi and Cordella, Marisa (2023). The (im)possibility of breaking the cycle of rippling circularities affecting Australian language education programs: a Queensland example. Language Learning in Higher Education, 13 (1), 29-49. doi: 10.1515/cercles-2023-2002

The (im)possibility of breaking the cycle of rippling circularities affecting Australian language education programs: a Queensland example

2023

Book Chapter

Los cimientos que apuntalan y perpetúan la Babel monolingüe australiana

Ortiz Jiménez, Macarena and Díaz, Adriana Raquel (2023). Los cimientos que apuntalan y perpetúan la Babel monolingüe australiana. Retos en el sistema educativo ante la multiculturalidad y el plurilingüismo. Educación primaria y secundaria. (pp. 117-134) edited by María-Teresa del-Olmo-Ibáñez, María Fernanda Medina Beltrán and María Soledad Villarrubia Zúñiga. Barcelona, Spain: Octaedro.

Los cimientos que apuntalan y perpetúan la Babel monolingüe australiana

2023

Journal Article

Introduction to the Special Issue: Pluriversalizing the Teaching and Learning of Spanish

Veliz, Leonardo, Díaz, Adriana Raquel and Heinrichs, Danielle H. (2023). Introduction to the Special Issue: Pluriversalizing the Teaching and Learning of Spanish. Critical Multilingualism Studies, 11 (2), i-xvi.

Introduction to the Special Issue: Pluriversalizing the Teaching and Learning of Spanish

2022

Journal Article

Gender neutral and non-binary language practices in the Spanish language classroom: tensions between disciplinary and societal changes

Diaz, Adriana Raquel, Mejía, Glenda and Villamizar, Andrés Gabriel (2022). Gender neutral and non-binary language practices in the Spanish language classroom: tensions between disciplinary and societal changes. L2 Journal, 14 (3). doi: 10.5070/l214356302

Gender neutral and non-binary language practices in the Spanish language classroom: tensions between disciplinary and societal changes

2021

Book Chapter

Intercultural understanding in early Spanish language learning: a policy perspective from Queensland, Australia

Díaz, Adriana Raquel (2021). Intercultural understanding in early Spanish language learning: a policy perspective from Queensland, Australia. Early language learning policy in the 21st century: An international perspective. (pp. 111-129) edited by Subhan Zein and Maria R. Coady. Cham, Switzerland: Springer. doi: 10.1007/978-3-030-76251-3_5

Intercultural understanding in early Spanish language learning: a policy perspective from Queensland, Australia

2021

Journal Article

Reframing and hospicing mobility in higher education: challenges and possibilities

Diaz, Adriana Raquel, Cordella, Marisa, Disbray, Samantha, Hanna, Barbara E. and Mikhaylova, Anna (2021). Reframing and hospicing mobility in higher education: challenges and possibilities. Intercultural Communication Education, 4 (1), 106-121. doi: 10.29140/ice.v4.n1.449

Reframing and hospicing mobility in higher education: challenges and possibilities

2021

Book

+JUNTXS: intermediate Spanish

Díaz, Adriana Raquel (2021). +JUNTXS: intermediate Spanish. Brisbane, Australia: The University of Queensland. doi: 10.14264/048629d

+JUNTXS: intermediate Spanish

2021

Book

JUNTXS: introductory Spanish

Díaz, Adriana Raquel (2021). JUNTXS: introductory Spanish. Brisbane, Australia: The University of Queensland. doi: 10.14264/b39d463

JUNTXS: introductory Spanish

2021

Book Chapter

Resistance to monoligualism: school principals and head of languages’ voices on factors that promote and deter languages education in Queensland, Australia

Díaz, Adriana, Cordella, Marisa and Ramos, Fabiane (2021). Resistance to monoligualism: school principals and head of languages’ voices on factors that promote and deter languages education in Queensland, Australia. Language learning in Anglophone countries: challenges, practices, ways forward. (pp. 485-502) edited by Ursula Lanvers, Amy S. Thompson and Martin East. Cham, Switzerland: Palgrave Macmillan. doi: 10.1007/978-3-030-56654-8_24

Resistance to monoligualism: school principals and head of languages’ voices on factors that promote and deter languages education in Queensland, Australia

2020

Journal Article

Coloniality, neoliberalism and the language textbook: unravelling the symbiosis in Spanish as a foreign language

Gurney, Laura and Díaz, Adriana (2020). Coloniality, neoliberalism and the language textbook: unravelling the symbiosis in Spanish as a foreign language. Language, Culture and Society, 2 (2), 149-173. doi: 10.1075/lcs.20003.gur

Coloniality, neoliberalism and the language textbook: unravelling the symbiosis in Spanish as a foreign language

2020

Journal Article

Intercultural communicative competence and Spanish heritage language speakers: an overview from the U.S., Australia and Europe

Díaz, Adriana Raquel and Callahan, Laura (2020). Intercultural communicative competence and Spanish heritage language speakers: an overview from the U.S., Australia and Europe. Journal of Spanish Language Teaching, 7 (2), 1-13. doi: 10.1080/23247797.2020.1847408

Intercultural communicative competence and Spanish heritage language speakers: an overview from the U.S., Australia and Europe

2020

Book

Tertiary language teacher-researchers between ethics and politics: silent voices, unseized spaces

Crozet, Chantal and Diaz, Adriana R. (2020). Tertiary language teacher-researchers between ethics and politics: silent voices, unseized spaces. New York, United States: Routledge. doi: 10.4324/9780429505942

Tertiary language teacher-researchers between ethics and politics: silent voices, unseized spaces

2019

Journal Article

Conceptualizing language, culture and intercultural communication in higher education languages programs

Moore, Paul J. and Díaz, Adriana (2019). Conceptualizing language, culture and intercultural communication in higher education languages programs. Australian Review of Applied Linguistics, 42 (2), 192-213. doi: 10.1075/aral.00024.moo

Conceptualizing language, culture and intercultural communication in higher education languages programs

2018

Journal Article

(Re)imagining a course in language and intercultural communication for the 21st century

Diaz, Adriana Raquel and Moore, Paul J. (2018). (Re)imagining a course in language and intercultural communication for the 21st century. Intercultural Communication Education, 1 (3), 84-99. doi: 10.29140/ice.v1n3.87

(Re)imagining a course in language and intercultural communication for the 21st century

2018

Book Chapter

Challenging dominant epistemologies in higher education: the role of language in the geopolitics of knowledge (re)production

Díaz, Adriana Raquel (2018). Challenging dominant epistemologies in higher education: the role of language in the geopolitics of knowledge (re)production. Multilingual education yearbook 2018: internationalization, stakeholders and multilingual education contexts. (pp. 21-36) edited by Indika Liyanage. Cham, Switzerland: Springer. doi: 10.1007/978-3-319-77655-2_2

Challenging dominant epistemologies in higher education: the role of language in the geopolitics of knowledge (re)production

2018

Book Chapter

Stretching the global imaginaries of internationalisation: the critical role of languages education

Diaz, Adriana (2018). Stretching the global imaginaries of internationalisation: the critical role of languages education. Educational reciprocity and adaptivity : international students and stakeholders. (pp. 195-208) edited by Abe W. Ata, Ly Thi Tran and Indika Liyanage. Abingdon, Oxon, United Kingdom: Routledge. doi: 10.4324/9781315201412-11

Stretching the global imaginaries of internationalisation: the critical role of languages education

2018

Journal Article

Dialogic pedagogy: the importance of dialogue in teaching and learning

Diaz, Adriana Raquel (2018). Dialogic pedagogy: the importance of dialogue in teaching and learning. Language and Intercultural Communication, 18 (2), 277-279. doi: 10.1080/14708477.2017.1287116

Dialogic pedagogy: the importance of dialogue in teaching and learning

Funding

Past funding

  • 2018 - 2019
    The invisibility of languages in universities' internationalisation processes
    UQ Early Career Researcher
    Open grant
  • 2016 - 2018
    Revitalizing language assessment: Sustainable change through international benchmarking and knowledge transfer
    UQ Teaching Innovation Grants
    Open grant

Supervision

Availability

Dr Adriana Diaz is:
Available for supervision

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Supervision history

Current supervision

  • Doctor Philosophy

    Fostering Intercultural Capability: Exploring secondary school students' perspectives on language learning

    Principal Advisor

    Other advisors: Dr Barbara Hanna

  • Doctor Philosophy

    THE ROLE OF LANGUAGE IN EARLY LITERACY POLICIES AND PROGRAMS

    Associate Advisor

    Other advisors: Associate Professor Marnee Shay, Dr Samantha Disbray

Completed supervision

Media

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