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	<title>Languages Action Alliance: Lingo</title>
	<link>http://www.lingo.org.au</link>
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		<title>Melbourne Language Picnic #2</title>
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 The Melbourne Language Picnic is on again!
Date:  Sunday, 21st March,  National Harmony Day 2010, from 9 am to 5 pm.
Venue: Collingwood Children&#8217;s Farm, St. Heliers Street, Abbotsford.
Bring your family and friends, your lingo and share in some multilingual fun and games.
For further information, follow this link: 
http://www.melbournelanguagepicnic.wordpress.com/
 
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		<link>http://www.lingo.org.au/melbourne-language-picnic-2/</link>
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		<title>Kimmba Bilingual Learning Playgroups: Parent Initiative &#8211; Community Benefit</title>
		<description><![CDATA[One of the presentations at last year&#8217;s seminar on raising bilingual children at Melbourne University discussed Languages Activism and the different ways in which parents can contribute to enhancing language learning in the wider community.  Kimmba Bilingual Learning Playgroups are an outstanding example of such an initiative, and here is the story of the person behind its success.
Marisha [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.lingo.org.au/bilingual-playgroups-parent-initiative-community-benefit/</link>
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		<title>CANBERRA: New Bilingual Indonesian/English Pre-School</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The Australian Indonesian-Language Schools Association (AILSA) Inc is pleased to announce to all parents who see the benefit of a bilingual environment for pre-schoolers&#8217; development that a bilingual (Indonesian/English) transition program for children aged 3-5 years will start in Term 1 2010.
 The program will operate at the pre-school premises of Queanbeyan South Public School from [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.lingo.org.au/canberra-new-bilingual-indonesianenglish-pre-school/</link>
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		<title>CANBERRA MULTICULTURAL FESTIVAL</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Languages during the Multicultural Festival, Sunday 7 February 11-5pm
The ACT Ethnic Schools Association and members of the ACT Bilingual Education Alliance are again joining forces to organise a stall at Contact Canberra, the community expo held as part of the Multicultural Festival.
Come along and see us on Sunday 7 February from 11am to 5pm at [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.lingo.org.au/canberra-multicultural-festival/</link>
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		<title>CANBERRA SEMINAR: Raising Children with More than One Language</title>
		<description><![CDATA[UNIVERSITY OF CANBERRAAustralia’s Capital University
Raising Children in More than One Language
A free seminar for parents, grandparents,early childhood and preschool workers, teachers, and others interested in bilingual education
Sunday 21 FebruaryInternational Mother Language Day1.30-4.30pm
• Hear from parents who have raised their children in more than one language – and from the children themselves• Discover more about the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.lingo.org.au/canberra-seminar-raising-children-with-more-than-one-language/</link>
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		<title>How to activate language learning outside the home: tips to make a difference</title>
		<description><![CDATA[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.  
http://www.rumaccc.unimelb.edu.au/schools/how.html
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		<link>http://www.lingo.org.au/how-to-activate-language-learning-outside-the-home-tips-to-make-a-difference/</link>
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		<title>Canberra Multilingual Picnic</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Source: Mandy Scott

 
 
 
 
 
 
The turnout was similar to last year&#8217;s picnic &#8211; about 25 &#8211; and keen and useful links were made  between a range of languages: Mandarin, Cantonese, Italian, Russian, Indonesian and Welsh.
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 Most of the children who attended were too young for the &#8216;how many languages can you find&#8217; game. However, those who had a [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.lingo.org.au/canberra-multilingual-picnic/</link>
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		<title>Supporting Bilingual Children in Early Childhood</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This very informative article is published by Learning Links, an &#8220;Australian charity and non-profit organisation formed to help children who have learning disabilities, difficulties and developmental delays, and their families&#8221;.
http://www.learninglinks.org.au/information-sheets.htm
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		<link>http://www.lingo.org.au/supporting-bilingual-children-in-early-childhood/</link>
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		<title>First Language Maintenance and Acquisition of English</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The link below leads to references on the role of maintaining a learner’s first language in relation to the acquisition of English.  
http://www.tesol.org.au/Issues/Place-of-First-Language
&#8220;The Australian and international TESOL fields argue that the maintenance and ongoing development of a student’s first language (L1) provides learners with a solid base from which to acquire an additional language. 
Awareness of [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.lingo.org.au/first-language-maintenance-and-acquisition-of-english/</link>
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		<title>MULILINGUAL PICNIC &#8211; Canberra</title>
		<description><![CDATA[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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		<link>http://www.lingo.org.au/387/</link>
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