Beginning level is for THREE-year old children, but parents let much younger kids play with our Descriptive Matching Game.

Apart from PC system, our Interactive Whiteboard & Motive Board offer interesting learning with modern technology.

We provide distance learning material and software to help families in remote areas.

Parent having children with Learning Difficulty can have our  Early Intervention Therapy software and material for free.

The THE-HE Vietnamese School also teaches Vietnamese Traditional Musical Instruments such as TRANH, B?U and T RUNG.

Please contact 613-95465024 or thehe.school@gmail.com for more information.

Youtube videos show our Solution For Disabled Children and Community Based Approaching instruction.

Just search for  truongthehe  channel.

Pictured below are some Vietnamese traditional musical instruments: Tranh, Bau, Trung

We are a new French preschool centre in North Balwyn. We offer licensed childcare as well as short sessions in Art and Craft, music etc, all with immersion French (for novices as well as fluent French speakers). We are currently taking enrolments for Term 1, which starts next week. Please take a look at www.lepetitparis.com.au  N.B: We also offer classes for primary school children and adults.

To build on the success of a union anti-intervention speaking tour of Steve Patrick and Peter Inverway earlier this year, Melbourne Anti Intervention Collective is planning a bilingual education day conference on a Saturday in November.

In holding the conference we aim to raise awareness about the ban on Aboriginal languages for the first four hours of school days, and associated measures like welfare quarantining that punish students, families and Aboriginal culture for problems created by chronic under-resourcing. On a more local level, we would address questions of the place- or lack of space- for Aboriginal culture and history in the National Curriculum.

We would also put this attack on Aboriginal educational rights in the context of the NT Intervention, and of the resistance to the intervention.

We see this as an important way to build up the general resistance to Anti Aboriginal racism and resistance to the assimilation push. We want to consolidate primarily education union members, but also more generally teachers, academics, students and other interested parties as Aboriginal rights activists.

We need your help to make this conference as relevant as possible, and to help it reach as wide an audience as possible. We are holding a planning meeting this Thursday evening at the New International Bookshop at Trades Hall.

We would love your ideas about speakers, your knowledge about the issues, your networks and ideas about how we can end these policies.

A tentative agenda for the conference is:

• Session One: Bilingual Education – What’s happening and why?
• Session Two: The National Curriculum and Indigenous Perspectives
• Session Three: Where to from here

Look forward to seeing you there,

Lucy Honan
0404728104

It can’t be mandated because it can’t be resourced. There are not enough LOTE teachers, especially of the right kinds in the right places – and may never be, to judge by the effect of recruitment campaigns throughout the English-speaking-world.

So what can be done?

We can formally acknowledge the practical utility of “apprenticeship language” learning. This is a strategy commended for wider deployment by Prof Joseph Lo Bianco (“Second Languages and Australian Schooling”,2009). It involves recognizing that much language understanding is transferrable between languages, so that learning a simple non-target language before a more difficult (and hard to resource) language is very effective in getting more students fluent in target languages.

This acknowledgement changes everything because a language apprenticeship in simple, intercultural Esperanto is something that all primary teachers are now equipped to provide. The resource which teaches them as they teach their class is called “Talking to the Whole Wide World: Integrated LOTE and Intercultural Studies for Australian Primary Schools”. Because of the design of both the language and the program, children are able to achieve mastery in 100-200 hours and leave primary school bilingual. This can be defined as the minimum Australian children deserve in primary LOTE education- it’s a lot better than the nothing they have now!

The broad intercultural education that comes with sharing a new language with an international peer group spread over more than 100 countries is a great precursor to more specific studies later, too.

I’m looking to gather a group of educators who can see that secondary LOTE teachers would be much more successful if all students arrived bilingual in a first foreign language, and ready to apply their knowledge skills and confidence to the next one. Are you one? Please let me know!

Penelope Vos: penivos@yahoo.com

Our classes are small with 5-6 children per class and divided into 4 age groups. Classes are held in a home like environment with beautiful surroundings to make your child comfortable and ready to learn.

Your child will have lots of fun learning Mandarin in a great atmosphere where they will be immersed in the Mandarin language.

Mandarin mandarin Bilingual Centre is located at 783 Bourke St, Redfern NSW, Australia 2016.

Read more at http://www.mandarinmandarin.com/.

We have created a comprehensive language teaching system that is exciting and enjoyable for both children and parents. Our curriculum includes activities in all lessons such as singing, music, story-telling, games and art to capture the imagination of every child.

We have a co-ordinated system of story books, flash cards, activity books, CDs and online access. You can actually make it as much fun at home for the kids as it is during the lessons! Your whole family will be exploring another language in no time.

We have 3 centres across Brisbane which teach French, Spanish and Italian to children aged between 18 months – 12 years.

www.alphatykes.com.au

Languages Matter!

Languages matter in developing classroom pedagogy.

In understanding teacher professional standards.

In quality interactions in the language specific classroom.

In building bridges to the world.

In developing intercultural and other literacies for Australia’s future.

Share with your colleagues how you are making Languages Matter.

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It will be held in the Sydney Myer Asia Centre, cnr. Swanston Street and Monash Road, University of Melbourne from 12.45pm-5pm on Sunday 31 August 2008

Presenters are:

Michael Clyne – an Australian-born bilingual and father of an Australian-born bilingual;

Suzanne Dopke – a speech pathologist and international authority on raising children bilingually. She is also the mother of two Australian-born bilingual children.

Presentations and discussions will explore a range of issues including:

• What parents and other carers can do to assist a child speak two languages
• Supporting the child’s first steps into language
• Advice for parents starting out and wondering if they are doing the right thing
• How parents and grandparents can encourage children to use the community language by finding uses of special interest to them
• How to build on the child’s personality and motivation
• Community resources and strategies to boost language maintenance and development

Panel discussions will answer questions and examine the ways that parents can be more active in promoting bilingualism with their children.

The seminar is free – but registration is essential by 22 August.

Registration and enquiries: email rumaccc