About
Dr Agnes Bodis serves as a Lecturer in Applied Linguistics within the Department of Linguistics at Macquarie University, leveraging her background in teacher training and English as a second language instruction to advance language education research.
Her scholarly focus spans language education policy, language testing frameworks, teacher development methodologies, and TESOL practices, with particular attention to real-world applications in linguistically diverse societies. Current investigations examine beach safety signage accessibility for multicultural populations, strategies for enhancing school engagement among multilingual families, and critical analyses of international student language proficiency standards.
Through the Language on the Move podcast and blog series, Dr Bodis actively disseminates research on heritage language maintenance for migrant children, media representations of refugee identities, and societal conceptualizations of language learning as an economic investment, maintaining an active scholarly presence through 2025.
