UPCOMING EVENTS
- MotherTongue: Transporting Words, 6.30pm Friday 16 April
- Teacher development opportunities
- Collaboration,creativity and formative assessment in Languages, Online: Thurs 22 April 7pm – 9.30pm and Thurs 29 April 7pm – 9.30pm
- Free webinar: Translation in the Multilingual Language Classroom: Rationale, Roles and Activity Design.Thursday 22 April 9 – 10.30am
- Free videos of Professional Development courses and talks organised by the NSW Federation of Community Language Schools
- Languages at the ANU
- ANU Language Teaching Forum recommencing in 2021
- Diploma of Languages re-commenced in Semester 1
- Asian and Pacific languages at the ANU School of Culture History and Language in second semester 2021
- Winter School in Gamilaraay 2 commences 1 July
- Language programs in Canberra starting in Term 2
- Italian with Canberra Dante Alighieri Society
- French with the Alliance Française de Canberra
- Indonesian with Australia Indonesia Association ACT
- and many others - see
- https://actbilingual.weebly.
com/other-language-programs. html for adults and - https://actbilingual.weebly.
com/language-programs-for- children.html for children - ACT community language schools
- Independent Review of ACT Community Language Schools now complete
- University of Canberra partnership with the Spanish Speakers Association to deliver Teaching Methodology course to ACT community language teachers
- Libraries ACT - Language-related activities and resources:
- Online Bilingual Story Times and Giggle and Wiggle
- English conversation classes
- Books, DVDs, CDs, magazines and newspapers in 23 languages other than English
- Mango Languages – free online language-learning system
- Call for volunteer literacy tutors to assist learners who speak English as an additional language.
- To keep up to date with ACT Library events and activities, follow them on Facebook or visit their website
NATIONAL AND INTERNATIONAL
- From Western Australia (WA)
- Plans to develop resources for Noongar language teaching in WA schools
- Hindi, Tamil and Korean will start being taught in WA schools from 2023
- Family languages in mainstream education
- Examples from Ireland: Statement of their value and how to encourage their use in the classroom
- Relevance for ACT schools?
- Interesting discussion about the process and politics of translation on ABC RN Radio
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