You are invited to attend a presentation on: WA Curriculum: Languages from 3 perspectives The role of mindsets in student challenges to language learning Shifting from fixed mindset to growth mindset for students K-12 Presented by Sonia Czernik, Diamond Light Learning. Hosted by Willetton Senior High School – Teacher Development School: Languages. Thursday, 11 February 2021 – […]
Colleen Barclay
Nominations now open for MLTAWA Hilde Dixon Award
The Hilde Dixon Award is the highest honour for language teachers in WA and recognises and congratulates excellence in the teaching of languages and the commitment to language education in the classroom and through involvement in language professional associations in Western Australia. It is also designed to increase the status of the language teaching profession. […]
Upcoming PL – Languages and STEM
31 October 2019John Curtin College of the Arts Are you tired of hearing that STEM is now the big focus of schools and Australian education? Do you feel like STEM is pushing Languages out of our schools? Do you feel like it’s difficult to raise the value of Languages in our Education system when STEM […]
Are you ready for Languages Week 2019?
What are you planning to do? Some ideas from the MLTAWA committee. organise lunchtime karaoke in different languages have students create posters (either in English or target language or both) to celebrate their language learning by encouraging them to complete one of the following statements – Send your favourites to us and we will publish […]
Good Luck, Claire!
We wish Claire Leong, Head of Languages at Wesley College and former MLTAWA Committee member, all the best for the Australian Education Awards night on 16th August in Sydney. Claire is a finalist in the category for the Department Head of the Year Award. Claire is one of 10 finalists in the category, and the only […]
A day with Dr Gianfranco Conti
Saturday, 11 May 2019 Thank you Gianfranco for an inspiring day. Members, we will shortly be making available handouts and participant reviews.
Successful recipients – MLTAWA Grants to attend the 2019 AFMLTA Conference
It gives us great pleasure to announce the recipients of the MLTAWA grants. First timer grant – Yue Zhao New graduate grant – Megan Delport Open grant – Moya McLauchlan Presenter grant – Laura Bava Each grant recipient will receive $1000. The selection panel for the Presenter grant based their decision on three criteria: Clarity of […]
AFMLTA Conference Update
250 people, including a large group from WA, have already registered for the AFMLTA 2019 Conference: Languages – Breaking through Walls. However, there is still time to register. Keynote speakers: – Dr Jane Simpson (Australian National University) – Professor Joseph Lo Bianco (The University of Melbourne) – Professor John Hajek (The University of Melbourne) – […]
ImmerseMe Resource
ImmerseMe uses virtual reality-based (VR) software as a way to introduce learners to authentic and interactive language learning! ImmerseMe has been proven to improve listening, speaking, reading, fluency and confidence of second language learners. As a follow up to Jeremy Snyder’s MLTAWA Pop-Up PL presentation on ImmerseMe on 27 March, there are two big updates […]
AFMLTA News in Brief: May 2019
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