• 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, All, Arabic, Events, Everyone, Greek, Indigenous, Indonesian, Korean, Mandarin, Spanish 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, All, 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, French, German, Greek, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Mandarin, National, Resources, Spanish 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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  • 04Sep

    Mandarin Stars

    1. Babies, 2. Pre-schoolers, Carers, Mandarin, NSW, Parents, Resources No Comments

    The Mandarin Stars program provides immensely enjoyable Mandarin classes for children age 1 to 5 in a structured playgroup with music, movement, singing, dramatic play, art and craft, story telling, games and more in a truly multi-cultural environment!

    Our Mandarin Stars develop cognitive, gross and fine motor skills whilst being immersed in the Mandarin language. It’s a playgroup with a difference and designed for families of all nationalities.

    Our curriculum has been inspired by Mandarin programs already taught in private, international Pre-schools, Kindergartens and Mandarin Playgroups in Hong Kong and China. With this inspiration, we have blended the Australian ‘playgroup’ approach in delivering our program and as a result, have created stimulating, fun mandarin classes for children age 1 to 5 years.

    Click here to go to the website

  • 04Sep

    Victorian Multicultural Education Awards

    9. All ages, All, Awards, Everyone, VIC No Comments

    Nominations are now open for the Victorian Multicultural Education Awards. The Awards form part of the Victorian Multicultural Commission’s Awards for Excellence in Multicultural Affairs.

    The awards recognise outstanding practices in education that raise awareness and support the implementation of multicultural initiatives.

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  • 02Sep

    Kimmba Bilingual Learning Inc

    1. Babies, 2. Pre-schoolers, Cantonese, German, Mandarin, Parents, Resources, Spanish, VIC 3 Comments

    Kimmba Bilingual Learning Inc . is a playgroup centre which focuses on helping children aged between 0-6 in learning a foreign language at the early stage of their lives.

    They will be immersing in another language while they play and learn in our playgroups. In turn, they’ll pick up the language effortlessly and spontaneously .

    Besides learning a new language, we also aim at building self-esteem and confidence. We encourage and help our children and their families to understand culture diversity and to promote community harmony.

    We are the first playgroup centre in Victoria to provide a variety of languages. We have Mandarin, German, Cantonese and Spanish playgroups.

    Click here to go to the website

  • 01Sep

    Successful summit to inform strategy

    9. All ages, ACT, All, Events, Everyone No Comments

    Programs to assist multicultural youth dealing with mental health issues, a comprehensive language plan and a dedicated multicultural senior citizens centre were among ideas put forward by hundreds of delegates at the historic ACT Multicultural Summit at the weekend.

    Minister for Multicultural Affairs John Hargreaves said ideas gleaned at the Summit will now form the basis of the ACT’s new draft Multicultural Strategy 2009-2012.

    “The Summit was very successful with more than 300 members of Canberra’s multicultural community helping to shape the future of our city’s multicultural way of life,” Mr Hargreaves said.

    Minister Hargreaves also announced an extra $200,000, over the next four years for the Migrant Resource Centre.

    “Delegates were encouraged to share their views and ideas on three key areas of need within the multicultural sector – youth, aged care and languages – and they did so with great results.

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