Image courtesy of The Notebooks of William Dawes, David Nathan, and the National Library of Australia.
2025 Patji-Dawes Award
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.
Award recipients for 2025 include:
- Jannette McCormack (Arrernte, ASCL)
- Hiroko Ohashi (Japanese, RMIT)
- Jindan Ni (Mandarin, RMIT).
The Patji-Dawes Certificate of Commendation recipient is Natalia Batova (Russian, University of Melbourne).
Jindan Ni and Hiroko Ohashi
