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Teaching and Learning Languages: A guideThe Research Centre for Languages and Cultures, University of South Australia, has recently released a new publication (100page book), funded by the federal government. Entitled Teaching and Learning Languages: A Guide it was written by Angela Scarino and Anthony (Tony) Liddicoat.
It is freely available in digital form from its associated website. The website also has a good deal more information that language teachers and administrators may find useful. These include examples of programs, teaching practice and advice on using the guide. http://www.tllg.unisa.edu.au/
American Council on the Teaching of Foreign LanguagesOur American equivalent association has a host of excellent links and resources, including advocacy. See www.actfl.org What should a good language centre have?With the government's recent push to have a number of specialist language centres built as part of the the Education Revolution you may be interested in the AFMLTA's opinion of what would constitute a good centre here.
National Declaration on Educational Goals for Young AustraliansThe AFMLTA has made its recommendation to the federal government on the proposed update to the 'Hobart Declaration' outlining the goals for education in Austalia. You can read the submission here.News In Brief - February 2009Read about the recent activities of the AFMLTA in the latest News-In-Brief available here.
Promotions material releasedEach state MLTA should have received the promotions material to encourage membership of teachers. Downloadable copies of this material is available from the Resources page.
MCEETYA National Plan 2009-2012The AFMLTA has recently provided feedback to the government's Ministerial Council on Education, Employment, Training and Youth Affairs Plan 2009-2012. You can read what we said here. National Asian Languages and Studies in Schools ProgramFor all details regarding this program which funds projects in Chinese (Mandarin), Japanese, Indonesian and Korean please see www.deewr.gov.au/Schooling/NALSSP/
Professional standards for accomplished teaching of languages and culturesThe AFMLTA is proud to have been involved in the development of standards for language teachers in Australia. The standards are available for download here
Management Dr Lesley Harbon Tel: 02 9351 2022 l.harbon@edfac.usyd.edu.au For more information, including language specific annotations, please see the associated Professional Standards Project - Languages website at www.pspl.unisa.edu.au
Intercultural Language Teaching and Learning in PracticePromotional MaterialsThe AFMLTA has developed materials to be used by state MLTAs to encourage membership amongst language teachers. This material has already been supplied to the executive committe of each state MLTA but it can also be downloaded be emailing a request here. materials |
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