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Wittman, Leonie
Leonie.Wittman at det.nsw.edu.au
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> AUSTRALIAN COUNCIL OF STATE SCHOOL ORGANISATIONS (ACSSO)
> The national voice of parents of children in Australia's public
> schools and their school communities
> LANGUAGES EDUCATION IN AUSTRALIA
> Volume One Number Five: 24 May 2007
> Having trouble reading this email? Read it on the web at
> http://www.languageseducation.com/newsl070524.pdf
>
>
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> Welcome to the fifth issue of the Languages Education in Australia
> Newsletter. Produced by the Australian Council of State School
> Organisations (ACSSO) jointly with the Australian Parents Council
> (APC), this Newsletter started as a monthly publication and is
> rapidly evolving to be a much more frequent event through 2007 - to
> inform school communities and other subscribers with an interest in
> languages education, about events, activities and initiatives around
> the country in this vitally important field of learning and
> development - one with implications for the future of every student in
> our schools and for the future of our country in the modern world.
>
> We want this Newsletter, and our new Languages Education in
> Australia Website (http://www.languageseducation.com ) to become
> increasingly interactive, building two-way communication and
> providing a venue for school communities to put forward ideas,
> discussion topics, suggestions - and a gallery of good news stories
> and photos about how your school is engaging its community around
> languages education. Contact us on: info at languageseducation.com
> Note: Disclaimer - Any products or services mentioned in this
> Newsletter or on our Website are simply noted for your information;
> no such mention infers or provides any recommendation, guarantee or
> indemnity from ACSSO, APC or any of our members or employees in
> respect of any member of the public who may choose to follow up with
> that service or product.
>
>
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>
> EDUCATION QUOTE OF THE YEAR
> "We have not been presented yet with an overwhelming argument that
> we should change the current situation."
> Variously attributed to Captain Smith of RMS Titanic (1912), George
> Armstrong Custer at Little Big Horn (1876), Field Marshal Douglas
> Haig (Loos 1915; Paschendael 1916 etc), and most recently to a
> generic Departmental spokesman quoted in the Herald-Sun on 4 May 2007
> (q.v.). Originally an epitaph from the tomb of the Unknown Education
> Bureaucrat (Languages), date uncertain. Scaramouche
>
>
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>
> Australian Chamber of Commerce & Industry Calls for Compulsory
> Languages Education
>
> In a major policy paper launched on 26 April 2007 "Skills for a
> Nation - A Blueprint for Improving Education and Training 2007 -
> 2017" the Australian Chamber of Commerce & Industry (ACCI) has called
> for a shift to compulsory languages learning for all young people
> from age 7, or earlier.
>
> This reflects a national need for young people to build the skills
> and capacity to communicate and operate effectively in a globalised
> world. Interestingly, this recommendation is linked in their paper
> with their view that every child should have the opportunity to learn
> a musical instrument from an early age.
> In advocating this and a range of other sensible reforms to improve
> our education systems and enhance the range of current and future
> opportunities available to young people across the country, ACCI
> recognises the need to build a sustainable platform for the future
> over an initial period of at least three years, in each of which an
> additional supporting investment of some $2.9 billion should be
> agreed between the States and the Federal governments, to support the
> staged and progressive achievement of those objectives.
> You can read the whole paper at:
> http://www.acci.asn.au/SkillsBlueprintMain.htm
>
>
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>
> Survey of Attitudes to Languages Education in Australia - Discussion
> Paper
> Between August and November 2006 ACSSO and APC ran a national online
> survey of attitudes to languages education, to highlight and explore
> the issues from the various perspectives of parents, students,
> teachers, principals, departmental bureaucrats and tertiary language
> instructors.
> The analysis of both qualitative and quantitative aspects of the
> 3,500 responses was completed earlier this year, and a Discussion
> Paper developed which was circulated to some 60 selected key
> stakeholders across the country for their response comments on any
> other aspects that should be investigated.
> Because we want to give every family and school community the
> opportunity to comment, to ensure that there are no issues we have
> not yet identified or highlighted, we are now making the Discussion
> Paper available through our Website. Your comments by 20 June 2007
> please. You can access the full Paper at
> http://www.languageseducation.com/attitudes_mcconchie.pdf.
> To whet your appetite, the following is drawn from the Executive
> Summary of Attitudes Towards the Study of Languages in Australian
> Schools, subtitled The National Statement and Plan - making a
> difference or another decade of indifference?
>
> "Learning a language in Australia should be seen like learning
> Maths or English, kicking a ball at recess time or eating lunch - it
> is a normal part of the curriculum in which every student should
> participate. It is part of an education for life." Sadly, for many
> students in many Australian schools learning a language is not a
> normal part of the curriculum as envisaged by this South Australian
> teacher. The sub-title of this report is deliberatively provocative -
> will the National and Statement and Plan be acted upon to make a
> difference to the state of language education in Australian schools;
> or will the next decade parallel the history of the last, when the
> momentum for change in relation to languages was gradually lost only
> to be replaced by an indifferent political and educational leadership
> and a generally apathetic public?
>
> Language has been the Key Learning Area that has been politically
> easy to ignore. Languages have slipped off the education agenda over
> the last decade, and public debate has been virtually non-existent.
> No political party has sought votes for language education in the
> same way that other educational topics have been thrust into the
> spotlight from time to time. If anything, the present Federal
> government rhetoric has turned Australians more inward, through a
> focus on "Australian values and culture", the primacy of learning
> English and emphasising the assimilation of new arrivals as opposed
> to the ideals of multiculturalism.
>
> And the States, which have the fundamental responsibility for
> education in Australia, are just as complicit. They too have allowed
> languages to languish. The National Statement and Plan for Languages
> Education in Australian Schools represents another restart of the
> languages debate. If it was the first time that languages education
> had been placed on the agenda for priority action, it surely would
> have been met with considerable enthusiasm. However, a study of the
> recent history of this curriculum area reveals that languages
> education has been on a stop start pathway since the 1980's.
>
> Read more at
http://www.languageseducation.com/attitudes_mcconchie.pdf
>
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> Learning Chinese - Student Volunteers Sought
> An Australian business, China Live, has contacted us to advise they
> are developing in Internet based tutoring service, which uses live
> tutors who are native speakers of Mandarin, who are based in China.
> For this pilot phase, they are actively looking for students who
> might like to practice their conversational chinese - at no cost!
> Lessons use internet video conferencing tools. Courses are based on
> popular text books. Lessons are recorded, so you can vieww them
> later to review how you are going.
>
> If you are interested in following up to find out more details,
> contact Jeremy Buckley at China Live, mobile 0422 174 679, email
> pilot at chinalive.com.au; or web at http://www.chinalive.com.au.
>
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> Leading Languages Education - A National Project for School Leaders
>
> The Australian Principals Associations Professional Development
> Council Inc (APAPDC Inc) has been contracted by the Australian
> Government Department of Education, Science and Training under the
> School Languages Programme to undertake an information and
> dissemination strategy for school principals and leaders in all
> education sectors. As a result school principals and leaders will be
> informed and encouraged to play a constructive leadership role in
> facilitating quality improvement in Languages education.
> The Leading Languages Education website is a resource and
> professional development site to support principals and school
> leaders in leading Languages education in Australian schools.
> The development of this website, electronic newsletters, a series of
> forums in each state and territory and the publication of a
> Leadership in Languages Education Publication over the coming year
> will ensure that school leaders are informed and encouraged to play a
> constructive leadership role in the development and implementation of
> approaches to Languages education at the school level.
> Read more at http://www.apapdc.edu.au/leadinglanguages/.
>
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> 'Grassroots' Push for Multiculturalism in NT
> April 23, 2007 - The Age
> "Multiculturalism" may have been banished from the federal
> government's lexicon, but a remote mining town is fighting back.
> As terrorism fears and Muslim immigration prompt new demands for
> migrants to integrate and learn English, a new TV advertising
> campaign backed by the Rotary Club of Nhulunbuy, in Arnhem Land, is
> urging Australians to respect each other's differences.
> The ads, broadcast on commercial television, show a football team
> containing members with Aboriginal, Asian, Muslim and European
> backgrounds.
> Despite their differing origins the team members unite, recognising
> that they're all on the same side, as the ad urges Australians to
> "give each other a fair go".
> A second ad along similar lines has been produced and a third is in
> the pipeline, while T-shirts and posters also have been printed.
> The idea for the national ad campaign came from Phil O'Brien,
> part-time pearl farmer and author of 101 Adventures That Got Me
> Absolutely Nowhere.
> Mr O'Brien said his aim was to encourage respect and trust in an age
> when global conflict threatened to divide sections of the Australian
> community.
> In January, Prime Minister John Howard removed the word
> "multicultural" from all government language and changed the name of
> the Department of Immigration and Multicultural Affairs to the
> Department of Immigration and Citizenship.
> Labor leader Kevin Rudd established an opposition portfolio for
> integration while retaining multicultural affairs.
> (c) 2007 AAP Online at
>
http://www.theage.com.au/news/National/Grassroots-push-for-multicultural
> ism/2007/04/23/1177180548969.html
>
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>
> THE VIEW FROM THE USA
> Vivien Stewart is Vice President, Education, at the Asia Society in
> New York. She writes here for Educational Leadership, published by
> Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development.
> Becoming Citizens of the World
> By Vivien Stewart
> The future is here. It's multi-ethnic, multi-cultural, and
> multi-lingual. But are students ready for it?
>
> The world into which today's high school students will graduate is
> fundamentally different from the one in which many of us grew up.
> We're increasingly living in a globalized society that has a whole
> new set of challenges. Four trends have brought us here.
> The first trend is economic. The globalization of economies and the
> rise of Asia are central facts of the early 21st century. Since 1990,
> 3 billion people in China, India, and the former Soviet Union have
> moved from closed economies into a global one. The economies of
> China, India, and Japan, which represented 18 percent of the world's
> gross domestic product (GDP) in 2004, are expected to represent 50
> percent of the world's GDP within 30 years (Wilson, 2005). One in five
> U.S. jobs is now tied to international trade, a proportion that will
> continue to increase (U.S. Census Bureau, 2004). Moreover, most U.S.
> companies expect the majority of their growth to be in overseas
> markets, which means they will increasingly require a workforce with
> international competence. According to the Committee for Economic
> Development (2006),
> To compete successfully in the global marketplace, both U.S.-based
> multinational corporations as well as small businesses increasingly
> need employees with knowledge of foreign languages and cultures to
> market products to customers around the globe and to work effectively
> with foreign employees and partners in other countries.
> Science and technology are changing the world and represent a second
> trend ...
> Read the whole article at:
> http://www.ascd.org/authors/ed_lead/el200704_stewart.html
>
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> Reminders
> Conference: "Moving the boundaries of classroom learning", Spanish
> Teachers Conference, 23 June 2007, Adelaide, SA.
> maurene.mcewen at nmhs.sa.edu.au
> Conference: Australian Society of Indonesian Language Educators
> biennial conference, 5-8 July 2007, Sunshine Coast, Qld.
> http://intranet.usc.edu.au/wacana/asile/
> Conference: "The Language Connection", Modern Language Teachers
> Association of Western Australia, 11-14 July 2007, Perth, WA.
> http://www.mltawa.org/
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