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.
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
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.
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
The invisibility of languages in universities' internationalisation processes
(2018–2019) UQ Early Career Researcher
(2016–2018) UQ Teaching Innovation Grants
(2022) Doctor Philosophy
The influence of school based additional language education on learner's perspective of themselves, others and the world
Doctor Philosophy
THE ROLE OF LANGUAGE IN EARLY LITERACY POLICIES AND PROGRAMS
Doctor Philosophy
Díaz, Adriana Raquel (2021). +JUNTXS: intermediate Spanish. Brisbane, Australia: The University of Queensland. doi: 10.14264/048629d
Díaz, Adriana Raquel (2021). JUNTXS: introductory Spanish. Brisbane, Australia: The University of Queensland. doi: 10.14264/b39d463
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
Maria Dasli and Adriana Raquel Diaz eds. (2017). The critical turn in language and intercultural communication pedagogy: theory, research and practice. Routledge Studies in Language and Intercultural Communication, New York, United States: Taylor & Francis. doi: 10.4324/9781315667294
Developing Critical Languaculture Pedagogies in Higher Education: Theory and Practice
Diaz, Adriana Raquel (2013). Developing Critical Languaculture Pedagogies in Higher Education: Theory and Practice. Bristol, United Kingdom: Multilingual Matters.
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.
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
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
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
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
Cosmopolitanism meets language education: considering objectives and strategies for a new pedagogy
Kennedy, Claire, Diaz, Adriana and Dasli, Maria (2017). Cosmopolitanism meets language education: considering objectives and strategies for a new pedagogy. The Critical Turn in Language and Intercultural Communication Pedagogy. (pp. 162-179) edited by Maria Dasli and Adriana Raquel Díaz. New York, NY United States: Routledge. doi: 10.4324/9781315667294-20
Dasli, Maria and Diaz, Adriana Raquel (2017). Epilogue. The critical turn in language and intercultural communication: Pedagogy theory, research and practice. (pp. 217-228) edited by Maria Dasli and Adriana Raquel Díaz. New York, NY United States: Routledge. doi: 10.4324/9781315667294
Dasli, Maria and Diaz, Adriana (2017). Prologue. The critical turn in language and intercultural communication pedagogy: theory, research and practice. (pp. xiii-xxiv) edited by Maria Dasli and Adriana Raquel Díaz. New York, NY United States: Taylor & Francis.
Tracing the 'critical' trajectory of language and intercultural communication pedagogy
Díaz, Adriana Raquel and Dasli, Maria (2017). Tracing the 'critical' trajectory of language and intercultural communication pedagogy. The critical turn in language and intercultural communication pedagogy: theory, research and practice. (pp. 3-21) edited by Maria Dasli and Adriana Raquel Díaz. New York, NY United States: Routledge. doi: 10.4324/9781315667294
Exploring the professional chasm in exam-driven English language education contexts
Guo, Xuhong, Diaz, Adriana and Liyanage, Indika (2016). Exploring the professional chasm in exam-driven English language education contexts. Global language policies and local educational practices and cultures. (pp. 215-232) edited by Shirley O'Neill and Henriette van Rensburg. Blue Mounds, WI United States: Deep University Press.
Liyanage, Indika, Diaz, Adriana and Gurney, Laura (2016). Re-envisioning teacher education programmes for international students: towards an emancipatory and transformative educational stance. Sociological and philosophical perspectives on education in the Asia-Pacific Region. (pp. 165-178) edited by Chi-Ming Lam and Jae Park. Singapore: Springer. doi: 10.1007/978-981-287-940-0_11
Guo, Xuhong, Liyanage, Indika, Bartlett, Brendan, Walker, Tony and Diaz, Adriana (2016). Uncertainty and reluctance in teaching taboo language: a case study of an experienced teacher of English as an additional language. Global language policies and local educational practices and cultures. (pp. 233-243) edited by Shirley O'Neill and Henriette van Rensburg. Blue Mounds, WI United States: Deep University Press.
Developing interculturally-oriented teaching resources in CFL: meeting the challenge
Diaz, Adriana Raquel (2015). Developing interculturally-oriented teaching resources in CFL: meeting the challenge. Exploring innovative pedagogy in the teaching and learning of Chinese as a foreign language. (pp. 115-135) edited by Robyn Moloney and Hui Ling Xu. Singapore, Singapore: Springer. doi: 10.1007/978-981-287-772-7_7
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
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
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
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
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
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
(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
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
Intercultural language teaching and learning
Diaz, Adriana Raquel (2016). Intercultural language teaching and learning. Language and Intercultural Communication, 16 (1), 117-119. doi: 10.1080/14708477.2015.1059551
Diaz, Adriana and Hortiguera, Hugo (2016). TELL-ING IT LIKE IT IS: Practical implications from a critical stance on technology-enhanced language learning. Revista de Lenguas para Fines Específicos, 22 (1), 54-79. doi: 10.20420/rlfe.2016.0090
Diaz, Adriana, Hortiguera, Hugo and Espinoza Vera, Marcia (2015). Quality assurance and foreign languages - Reflecting on oral assessment practices in two university Spanish language programs in Australia. Journal of University Teaching & Learning Practice, 12 (3).
Hortiguera, Hugo and Diaz, Adriana (2014). Extendiendo los muros de la clase de ELE: una aproximación (neuro) cognitiva a través de la tecnología. MarcoELE: revista de didactica, 19 (July-December).
Intercultural understanding and professional learning through critical engagement
Diaz, Adriana (2013). Intercultural understanding and professional learning through critical engagement. Babel, 48 (1), 12-19.
Engaging with diversity: the construction of policy for intercultural education in Italy
Liddicoat, Anthony J. and Diaz, Adriana (2008). Engaging with diversity: the construction of policy for intercultural education in Italy. Intercultural Education, 19 (2), 137-150. doi: 10.1080/14675980801889666
Diaz, Adriana (2012). Intercultural competence through language education in Australian higher education: Mission (im)possible?. LCNAU's Inaugural Colloquium, Melbourne, VIC Australia, 26-28 September 2011. Melbourne: Languages and Cultures Network for Australian Universities (LCNAU).
Languages literature review: Senior syllabus redevelopment
Iwashita, Noriko, Rochecouste, Judith, Diaz, Adriana, Hanna, Barbara, Kennett, Belinda and Kim, Sun Hee Ok (2016). Languages literature review: Senior syllabus redevelopment. South Brisbane, Australia: Queensland Curriculum and Assessment Authority.
The invisibility of languages in universities' internationalisation processes
(2018–2019) UQ Early Career Researcher
(2016–2018) UQ Teaching Innovation Grants
The influence of school based additional language education on learner's perspective of themselves, others and the world
Doctor Philosophy — Principal Advisor
Other advisors:
THE ROLE OF LANGUAGE IN EARLY LITERACY POLICIES AND PROGRAMS
Doctor Philosophy — Associate Advisor
Other advisors:
Australian University Students' Perceptions of Diversity Beyond National Distinction
Doctor Philosophy — Associate Advisor
Other advisors:
(2022) Doctor Philosophy — Principal Advisor
Other advisors:
(2022) Doctor Philosophy — Associate Advisor
Other advisors:
Beyond and within the NS/NNS Discourses: English Teaching in the Saudi PYPs
(2020) Doctor Philosophy — Associate Advisor
Other advisors:
The Effects of Planning Time on Discourse Competence in Oral Task Performance
(2017) Doctor Philosophy — Associate Advisor
Other advisors: