Challenges and Prospects in Second Language Enrolment: A Tasmanian Case Study

Stephanie Richey is a researcher and lecturer in the School of Education at the University of Tasmania (UTAS). She enjoys the rich cross-discipline collegiality of her regional Cradle Coast Campus, in the North West of Tasmania, where she completed both her Bachelor of Education (First Class Honours) and PhD. She is passionate about access to languages education for everyone, but especially students, and her research focuses on Anglophone language learners’ motivation for and attitudes towards learning additional languages. Her other key research area is in the field of Scholarship of Teaching and Learning (SoTL), primarily focusing on enhancing Higher Education (HE) student participation, engagement, and retention. Her teaching now focuses on helping first-year Initial Teacher Education (ITE) students develop academic literacy skills for their tertiary studies.