Australia Association for Research in Education
Languages learning
How these teachers made languages stick
Innovative. Engaging. Authentic. These are not terms you usually hear from primary school teachers, students and parents about …
The perils and pressures on teaching world languages
Over the last 30 years, the number of Australian secondary students graduating with a world language (WL) has remained stagnant at around 10%. The steady succession policies, reports, and enquiries commissioned over this period have failed to leave more than a temporary dent in the landscape of languages education in Australia. Things were not always …
This is what we need to do to boost languages learning in Australian schools
Our rich multicultural nation maintains a frustratingly monolingual mindset. Discussions about Languages education in Australia typically reiterate the …