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I am a first year Grad Dip Ed student at University of New England hoping to become an
English and Indonesian high school teacher. I am not doing my Indonesian
method and prac placement until 2006 but was hoping to do my English placement
this year at a school that teaches both English and Indonesian (as I believe
will help my employment prospects after I have finished the course) but have
been having difficulty in locating these schools. Leonie kindly sent me a
list of all NSW state schools offering Indonesian but the list doesn’t
include many schools in my area. I have phoned or done a web search on a
number of those that are on the list but these are no longer offering
Indonesian (eg, Blakehurst and Kingsgrove high). I managed to contact two
schools that do still offer Indonesian (St George Girls and Woolooware High School) but neither could offer
me much hope of a prac placement at their schools this year. I have also
contacted MLC in Burwood as I know that they offer Indonesian as well and am
still waiting to hear back from them. I imagine that there are probably
other private (or even public) secondary schools offering Indonesian in Sydney but I am not sure how to
locate them. I would appreciate any advice from anyone on this list who
might know. I live in the St George area of Sydney but would be prepared
to travel to certain parts of the Eastern suburbs, the inner West, as far south
as Sutherland (note there are still a couple of Sutherland schools I have not
yet tried) and possibly out south west as far as Campbelltown or Liverpool
(provided it was somewhere handy to the M5).
I am also curious as to whether there is
some reason why Indonesian seems so kurang populer in NSW schools? I did
my own schooling in Victoria and lots of schools seemed to offer it there. Is this
because it is a ‘priority language’ in Vic but not in NSW?
How do other states compare to NSW?
Terima kasih banyak
Catherine Seal
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