Australia's present and future is multilingual.
Every child in Australia should grow up at least bilingual.
Languages education starts before school life and should continue throughout.
You are invited to a FREE seminar for parents, early childhood and pre-school workers, grandparents, teachers and others interested in bilingual education.
SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 29, 12:45pm – 5pm
Carrillo Gantner Theatre, Sidney Myer Asia Centre, Cnr Swanston St and Monash Rd, University of Melbourne
THE SEMINAR IS FREE BUT REGISTRATION IS ESSENTIAL by November 23rd.
Source: Victorian School of Languages
Since the Public Meeting on this issue in August, the following action has been taken:
1. A Press Release was prepared and circulated with some media reports.
2. The matter was raised with the Victorian Curriculum and Assessment Authority. A delegation made up of Professor Michael Clyne, Pandora Petrovska, Frank Merlino and Stefan Romaniw, met with the Acting CEO of the Victorian Curriculum and Assessment Authority, Mr David Howes on September 15, 2009.
The outcome of that meeting was as follows:
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This must-read feature in the Winter edition of Multilingual Life (published by the SA Government) can be accessed on http://www.multicultural.sa.gov.au/magazine.htm.
Contributors include Michael Clyne, Lia Tedesco, Greg Wilson and many more.
Check out the interview with Jo Lo Bianco on ABC Radio via the link below: at last someone who counters the economic argument for language learning. The first benefit is always personal – beginning in the brain – and all other benefits to individual, community and nation, the communicative, social, instrumental and economic advantages, flow from there.
http://www.abc.net.au/m/lifematters/stories/2009/2701101.htm
Further information on the current state of languages education in our schools is available in the following publication:
Title: Second Languages and Australian Schools
Author: Joseph Lo Bianco, with Yvette Slaughter
Publisher: Australian Centre for Educational Research
URL: http://www.acer.edu.au/documents/AER_54-SecondLanguagesAndAustralianSchooling.pdf
Tags: economic argument, personal benefits of language learning
