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Festival at Anakie Fairy Park

Sunday 20 May 2012, 11 am – 3 pm

Join us in the celebrations of 200 years of Brothers Grimm fairytales on this very special day:

• Puppet musical “Schneewittchen” (tri-lingual and interactive)
• Student performances
• Schnappi the Crocodile
• Fairy park languages trail
• Story reading
• Dance groups
• Prizes for best Grimm fairytale costumes
• Delicious food

Don’t miss this opportunity to introduce your children and grandchildren to this part of cultural heritage.

Further details www.goethe.de/australien

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

A second meeting of Indonesian language teachers will be held in Brisbane on Saturday 26 Feb 10 am LOTE Library Montague Road, West End and the diehards and new enthusiasts will establish a Queensland Indonesian Language Teachers Association. Please contact Kerry O’Connor if interested: kocon4 at eq.edu.au

This follows the research project on Indonesian in Australian Universities and National Colloquium on Tertiary Indonesian convened on 9-11 February 2011 by Professor David Hill. His draft discussion paper is available online. Participants included Australian academics, teachers, DFAT and DEEWR representatives, Indonesian Embassy and Consulate officials, one state parliamentarian, business spokespersons, visitors from Germany, Japan and Indonesia, plus inspiring young Australian students of Indonesian working as volunteers at the Colloquium. Many of our long-term worries were aired, strategies considered and the closure of the ALTC lamented. The agreement to work on a National Indonesian Resources Bank was one positive outcome which may dovetail nicely with work of Education Services Australia’s National Digital Learning Resources Network. There are now three Balai Bahasa in WA, ACT and Victoria. A concerted promotion campaign to counter years of negative coverage of Indonesia would be  helpful and discussions centred on reinvigorating the Australian Society of Indonesian Language Educators (ASILE) as an ongoing active  promotional body, not just organiser of biennial conferences.

Australia Indonesian Business Council (AIBC) vice president Ross Taylor demonstrated the brilliant opportunities for Australians in so many fields of business, if only they will equip themselves with the knowledge to cope with the challenges and if Indonesia continues its recent record in reforming business practice and regulations.

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.

You should be self-motivated, willing to acquire new skills and work reliably in a small team.

 Responsibilities include:

• Processing of enrolments for language courses, conferences and seminars
• Invoicing and controlling
• Assistance with event and language class organisation
• Administration of intern program
• Administration of scholarship and language assistant program
• Management of database
• Answering general enquiries
• Advising clients on language courses in Australia and overseas

 What you need to fulfill to qualify for this role:

• Minimum 3 years experience in administration
• Fluency in spoken and written English and German
• Advanced Microsoft Office skills
• Excellent organizational skills
• Strong customer focus

Note on Residency: To be eligible to apply for this position, you must have an appropriate Australian work visa (no work & holiday visa please!)

 Hours: 4 days with a total of 26 hours per week

Salary: in accordance with experience

Starting date: 11 January 2011

Contract period: 12 months

Applications close: 25 November 2010 

For further information and application please contact

Petra Franz petra.franz@melbourne.goethe.org 

Applications and enquiries by email only please

 The Goethe-Institut is the Federal Republic of Germany’s cultural institution, operational worldwide. We promote the study of German abroad and encourage international cultural exchange. We also foster knowledge of Germany by providing comprehensive information on its culture, society and politics. www.goethe.de

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 is my understanding that Prof. Joe Lo Bianco and others have applied for a NALSSP grant to establish the projected “National Tertiary Languages Network”. News on the current 2010 round of NALSSP grant proposals should follow now that the dust is settling from the recent 2010 federal election. If we want a thoroughly integrated languages education in Australia, with sensible articulation top to bottom, and effective lobbying and promotion, we need to have everyone networking together from AlphaTykes to PhD supervisors. Philip Mahnken, Sunshine Coast
Recommendations from the Beyond the Crisis Colloquium
Recommendation 1: That universities, at the policy level, give explicit and urgent recognition to the strategic importance of the study of languages and cultures; and that they develop appropriate strategies and provide adequate resources for the promotion and effective maintenance of these studies. This would include attention and resources be given to providing appropriate identification procedures (such as placement tests),
and sufficient course levels and pathways to allow learners with diverse language backgrounds to be grouped according to their proficiency and learning needs, so that their full learning potential can be realised.
Recommendation 2: That the university sector (perhaps through DASSH) work towards a uniform and nuanced definition of what constitutes attrition, and that the relevant
faculties generate and make readily available comparative statistics about attrition in languages and other humanities and social sciences areas.
Recommendation 3: That individual languages programmes across Australia consider the practice of a motivation / intention / background questionnaire on the model of the one
used in LASP 2, to be administered to all students early in the first semester of their language study. The questionnaire takes only a few minutes of class time and, although the recording and analysis of data is time-consuming, this should be budgeted for by the relevant schools in order to provide a clearer picture of the student cohort and their motivations and intentions, to better predict class sizes, to facilitate staff planning, and to provide a basis for ongoing curriculum review. The information gathered could be shared through the National Tertiary Languages Network.
Recommendation 4: That the National Tertiary Languages Network undertake, as a matter of priority, to engage with the issues raised in relation to TELL, particularly with a view to enabling increased collaboration and exchange across the sector. [end quote]

There are many valuable and encouraging reports and other publications at the Australian Academy of the Humanities website http://www.humanities.org.au/ I got the above quote from AN ANALYSIS OF RETENTION STRATEGIES AND TECHNOLOGY ENHANCED LEARNING IN BEGINNERS’ LANGUAGES OTHER THAN ENGLISH (LOTE) AT AUSTRALIAN UNIVERSITIES.