Great to see the language picnics catching on!
ACT Bilingual Education Alliance invite you to the next Multilingual Picnic in Canberra. For more details, please contact Guiliana Komnacki (0414) 269 335 or email Marina.Houston@canberra.edu.au
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30Nov
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19Dec1. Babies, 2. Pre-schoolers, 9. All ages, ACT, Carers, Dutch, French, German, Korean, Mandarin, Parents, Resources 1 Comment
Dr Mandy Scott
In an article last year I discussed the multiple benefits that young children can gain from learning a second language. These benefits include adding to communicative and intellectual skills, and laying the foundation for successful learning of further languages later in life.
This article introduces readers to a growing area of interest among parents – bilingual playgroups.
Over recent months I have visited three language-based playgroups in the ACT. All are providing a bilingual experience for children and highlighting the fact that speaking more than one language is a natural and fun thing to do.
Tags: Playgroups
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19Dec
Camping, canoeing, roasting marshmallows, go-karting, baking, having adventures and making friends sounds like every child’s dream. The boys and girls of Canberra’s newest Scout group will be doing all this and more, all in the German language.
The German Australian Pfadfinder Scout Group will take children aged 6 and up, and will be accessible to north and south side families as their Scout Hall is in Turner. Pfadfinder is the German word for Scout and it literally means “path finder”.
“We’re very excited to be starting up this bilingual Scout group this year. 2008 is the Year of the Scout, and it is also the International Year of Languages, so it is very appropriate,” said ACT Scouts’ Chief Commissioner, Mr Neville Tomkins.
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16Nov
ACT Bilingual Educational Group
Multilingual PicnicSunday 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
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.
