Creates a safe and inclusive space.
Inspires students to love learning.
Encourages students to ask questions.
Great Professor!
Professor Russell Cross serves as Professor in Additional Languages Education within the Faculty of Education at the University of Melbourne. He is affiliated with the Languages and Literacies Education Academic Group and leads research and teaching initiatives centered on content and language integrated learning (CLIL), sociocultural theory, activity theory, Vygotskian perspectives, plurilingual pedagogies in English as an Additional Language (EAL) classrooms, language teacher cognition, and multilingual resources in educational contexts. Cross coordinates key programs including the Graduate Certificate in Education (Languages Other Than English with CLIL focus), Supervised Observation (Second Language), and Supervised Teaching (Second Language). His career includes service as Associate Dean (Research) for the Faculty of Education over three years until 2024, during which he contributed to faculty research leadership.
Cross directs several research projects, such as (Re)situating CLIL knowledge as pedagogic practice, Literacy and Teaching English Outside of the Mainstream, Enabling Pluralism: Eliminating Educational Inequity in Languages Education, and a wellbeing literacy research initiative inviting teacher participation. His scholarly output encompasses 76 publications cited over 1,000 times. Notable works include 'Language and content "integration": the affordances of additional languages in pedagogical practice' (2016, Journal of Curriculum Studies), 'Challenging the monolingual mindset: Understanding plurilingual pedagogies in English as an Additional Language (EAL) classrooms' (2020), 'Globalizing Teacher Education Through English as a Medium of Instruction: A Vygotskian Perspective' (2022), 'Content and language integrated pedagogy: Situating teacher cognition within complex activity systems' (2024, Foreign Language Annals), 'Harnessing the situated nature of CLIL for teacher education programmes' (2025, Journal of Immersive and Content-Based Language), and 'Language teacher cognition and multilingual resources in CLIL' (2026). He has presented at international events like World CLIL 2025, advancing CLIL implementation in Victorian schools and teacher education globally. Cross's contributions shape plurilingual approaches, teacher agency, and equity in language and literacy education.