Ruth Fielding
Ruth Fielding is Associate Professor of Languages and TESOL education at and researches multilingualism, language education and identity. She is part of an inter-disciplinary team currently exploring - a funded ARC Discovery project (2021 to 2024). In 2023 Ruth founded the Monash branch of within the Faculty of Education . Ruth began her career as a secondary school teacher of French and German, before undertaking a PhD which focussed upon multilingualism and identity negotiation. Ruth worked as a Senior Lecturer in the French program at UTS (2017- 2018); Assistant Professor of TESOL and Foreign Language Teaching at the University of Canberra (2014 – 2017) where she was the Program Coordinator for the . Prior to that Ruth worked for eight and a half years (2006 - 2014) as a Lecturer in Languages Curriculum & TESOL at the . Ruth’s research explores bilingual/multilingual identity, education in plurilingual settings and intercultural approaches in languages education. Ruth's research program seeks to transform teaching and learning through shifting approaches to languages. Her research has appeared in the International Journal of Bilingual Education and Bilingualism, Foreign Language Annals, Language Learning Journal, Language and Education, Babel and in a number of edited volumes. Ruth’s book Multilingualism in the Australian Suburbs is available as an e-book and as a hardback book from Springer. She has recently published a book on the intersection of in education for Springer and has co-edited a book on teacher education for content and language integration in bilingual settings for Multilingual Matters in 2024 . She leads the Faculty’s .
