For those not able to attend the recent RUMACCC (University of Melbourne) seminar on raising bilingual children, the link below will take you to the handouts for the sessions on what parents can do to encourage language learning beyond the home, for their children and community alike.
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07Oct
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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05Sep
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. -
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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.
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27Aug
The Languages Action Alliance is preparing an online survey 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.
The survey will be online by Friday 5 September 2008.
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23Aug
Emeritus Professor Michael Clyne, one of Australia’s foremost experts on and advocate for multilingualism, gave The Year of Languages Lecture on 19 August 2008 at Monash Uni.
“This year, the UN International Year of Languages, countries all over the world have been reflecting on their achievements in languages and what they could be doing better.
In Australia, we have seen the continuation of a public discourse which started the previous year, on the benefits of second language learning and the decline in language programs over the years.
I will argue that this discourse will remain on the surface if it does not take into account the linguistic diversity we are blessed with, and if we cannot overcome our pervasive monolingual mindset.
I will also suggest a different, more holistic way of thinking about the benefits of plurilingualism, that is the use of more than one language. “
As well as being Emeritus Professor at Monash University and an honorary professorial fellow at the University of Melbourne, Michael Clyne is a bilingual parent of a bilingual child and is a member of the Languages Action Alliance.
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23Aug
Poppy Masselos is a registered teacher with decades of experience in the classroom.
A large part of her career in the past has been to help teachers to make sense of new and emerging technologies and to help infuse these in all curriculum areas in all grade levels.
Poppy maintains a blog for the Brisbane Courier Mail on digital resources for the classroom.
In this post she has provided an impressive list of links to websites related to languages learning. Go there now
Reprinted from Languages in Education newsletter 22 August 2008
NB: There are quite a few broken links on this page, but there are also some gems.
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