John PoliasJohn Polias is an international consultant in teaching and learning with a focus on language, especially in multilingual learning contexts. He is a science, mathematics, visual arts and linguistics graduate. Much of his work has been in partnership wth the South Australian Department of Education and Child Development, The Education Bureau of Hong Kong, and The Hong Kong Polytechnic University. As one of the two directors of Lexis Education, he writes and delivers professional development courses for international schools around the world. His interests lie in developing cross-curriculum pedagogies that are underpinned by the role of language but which also have a multisemiotic approach. Read More Read Less