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Shimada, Sally <br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>Sent:</span></b> Tuesday, 12 February 2008
11:15 AM<br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>Subject:</span></b> Article from The Age re
languages education - Experts warn <st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place
w:st="on">Australia</st1:place></st1:country-region> falling behind</span></font><span
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face=Helvetica><span style='font-size:12.0pt;
font-family:Helvetica'>Language curriculum reform call <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face=Helvetica><span style='font-size:12.0pt;
font-family:Helvetica'>Farrah Tomazin, Education Editor <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face=Helvetica><span style='font-size:12.0pt;
font-family:Helvetica'>9 February 2008<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face=Helvetica><span style='font-size:12.0pt;
font-family:Helvetica'>The Age<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face=Helvetica><span style='font-size:12.0pt;
font-family:Helvetica'>© 2008 Copyright John Fairfax Holdings Limited.
www.theage.com.au[http://www.theage.com.au]<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p><font size=3 face=Helvetica><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Helvetica'>Education
- Experts warn <st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Australia</st1:place></st1:country-region>
falling behind <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p><font size=3 face=Helvetica><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Helvetica'>LEARNING
a language should be compulsory and students should get university-entry
bonuses if they complete the subject in VCE, educators are urging. <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p><font size=3 face=Helvetica><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Helvetica'>As
the number of students studying languages continues to decline, experts warn <st1:country-region
w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Australia</st1:place></st1:country-region> is at
risk of falling behind because its school curriculum is too
"Euro-centric". <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p><font size=3 face=Helvetica><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Helvetica'>Experts
from the Australian Secondary Principals Association, the Asia Education Foundation
and the Australian Council of State School Organisations have called for
reforms to encourage more teachers and students to learn a language. <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p><font size=3 face=Helvetica><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Helvetica'>Some
of the suggestions include: <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p><font size=3 face=Helvetica><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Helvetica'>·
Reducing HECS debt for university students who take on a teaching degree in
language. <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p><font size=3 face=Helvetica><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Helvetica'>·
Expanding to other states the Victorian practice of giving high school
graduates a bonus on university entry scores for doing a second language in
year 12. <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p><font size=3 face=Helvetica><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Helvetica'>·
Making language a compulsory subject in primary schools to year 10. <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p><font size=3 face=Helvetica><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Helvetica'>Figures
show the rate of year 12 students graduating with a second language has dropped
from 40% in the 1960s to 13% today - with Australian students spending less
time learning a language than those in all other developed countries. <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p><font size=3 face=Helvetica><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Helvetica'>But
the Victorian Government appears reluctant to change its status on the school
curriculum. "We have struck the right balance," said Matt Nurse,
spokesman for Education Minister Bronwyn Pike. <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p><font size=3 face=Helvetica><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Helvetica'>Australian
Secondary Principals Association president Andrew Blair said part of the
problem was that instead of focusing on a few chosen languages, schools offered
many choices but not enough emphasis on any of them. <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p><font size=3 face=Helvetica><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Helvetica'>In
<st1:State w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Victoria</st1:place></st1:State>, 22
languages are taught in government primary schools, 19 in secondary colleges
and 40 through the Victorian School of Languages. <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p><font size=3 face=Helvetica><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Helvetica'>But
Mr Blair said the curriculum should contain six core languages other than
English - Indonesian, Japanese, French, Mandarin, Spanish and German - with
HECS support offered to university teaching students who studied one or more of
the six. <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p><font size=3 face=Helvetica><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Helvetica'>"What
we haven't been is sufficiently brave to grasp a solution that can at least
guarantee continuity of teacher supply and of programs in schools across the
country," Mr Blair said. <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p><font size=3 face=Helvetica><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Helvetica'>Terry
Aulich, chief executive of key parent group Australian Council of State School
Organisations, agreed, saying the shortage of language teachers was resulting
in schools having to scrap programs. <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p><font size=3 face=Helvetica><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Helvetica'>In
the lead-up to the election, Labor leader Kevin Rudd, who is fluent in
Mandarin, pledged $68 million to promote Asian languages in schools and tackle
teacher shortages. But some have warned that the plan is just a starting point
to rectify decades of government inaction. <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p><font size=3 face=Helvetica><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Helvetica'>Asia
Education Foundation executive director Kathe Kirby called for a revival of the
national Asian languages and studies in Australian schools strategy, which
doubled the number of Asian language learners in schools in the 1990s, but was
scrapped in 2002. <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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