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16Nov

Multilingual Picnic

9. All ages, ACT, Events, Everyone 1 Comment
ACT Bilingual Educational Group
Multilingual Picnic

Sunday 7 December 2008 11am-2 pm

Black Mountain Peninsula, off Lady Denman Drive, Acton, ACT
(near the Children’s Playground)

Come and
- Help celebrate our multilingual community and the International Year of Languages
- Talk to parents raising their children to speak more than one language
- Hear some of the many languages spoken in the Canberra region
- Find out more about learning languages
Bring family and friends, your picnic, and something to sit on

ALL WELCOME!

For more details, please email Marina or phone Mandy on 0408 089 235 (mobile)

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23Sep

Travel round the world in a day

9. All ages, ACT, Events, Everyone 1 Comment

Sunday 28 September 2008, 10am-5pm

If you are anywhere near Canberra this week you should try to make it to this very special event set up to celebrate the International Year of Languages.

Apart from more than two dozen stalls representing organisations and language learning opportunities, and as well as information on up to 20 weekend ethnic schools representing a wide range of languages, there is a spectacular range of workshops and seminars on language topics.

There are so many sessions there will sometimes be up to six running simultaneously in different venues.

I don’t know how you choose between sessions on topics as diverse as reviving and preserving indigenous languages, how the latest technology can help language learning, the role of non-verbal languages, oral language learning, written language learning, early childhood education, adult education, policy development, careers information - it’s an amazing line-up.

Click here to download the Draft Program in Word format

Click here to download the Draft Program in PDF format
07Sep

Celebrate the International Year of Languages: Travel round the world in a day!

9. All ages, ACT, Events, Everyone 3 Comments

Sunday 28 September 2008, 10am-5pm

Explore the many languages of the Canberra region

Enjoy music, dance and food from many cultures

Join a free workshop! Try your hand at Arabic, Greek, Korean, Indonesian, Mandarin, Spanish, or an indigenous language; explore the Cyrillic script or Japanese writing; make a podcast in another language, hear how languages can be a career asset …

Roam around the stalls and discover the world’s languages!

Find out how and where they are taught in the Canberra region

Click here to download the event poster in PDF format

Click here to download the event poster in Word format

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05Sep

Online Parent / Carer Survey

9. All ages, Everyone, National, Research 2 Comments

The online survey prepared by the Languages Action Alliance for parents / guardians / care givers of children and/or parents-to-be to identify their attitudes, experiences and needs relevant to the support of language learning is now live.

Click here to take the survey
05Sep

LOTE@HOME

9. All ages, Everyone, National, Resources No Comments

LOTE@HOME is an innovative way for parents to participate with their kids as they all learn a second language, devised by a parent who was unable to identify an approach to learning a language other than English that focused on a home, family-based setting.

In the LOTE@HOME pack, there’s a set of 50+ laminated cards for rooms in the home. Families attach the cards to the thing they refer to - the stove, the door, the dishwasher, the cupboard, the bath, the tap and so on. There are cards for the bedroom, the bathroom, the kitchen.

Family members use the words on the cards, mixed in with their usual language, to make sentences. So for example, a parent could say to a child “… please close ‘la porta’ when you come in …” Gradually, everyone will absorb the Italian word for ‘door’. And so it goes with all the other cards.

Click here to go to the website

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