Image courtesy of The Notebooks of William Dawes, David Nathan, and the National Library of Australia.
The AFMLTA and the Languages and Cultures Network for Australian
Universities (LCNAU) offer the Patji Dawes award triennially. The next time this award will offered is in 2028.
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 were:
- 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
