PL Report 27 May: iPad Apps for Language Learning
In this workshop teachers explored a range of iPad apps that are designed predominantly for creating content in the target language.
Category Archives: Essential Reading
Social capital: A vital ingredient for retaining foreign language teac...
Co-authors Shannon Mason and Cristina Poyatos Matas have revealed six key findings from research conducted in 2012 concerning the retention and attrition of Languages teachers in ...
Senior Secondary Languages Education Research Project Final Report
"This report is part of the Australian Government’s efforts to revive the teaching of languages to ensure that at least 40 per cent of Year 12 students study a language in additio...
How we kill languages and fail our cleverest children: Article from Th...
TheConversation is an independent publication with many academics and commentators contributing both research-based and opinion articles. This one from 15 July on the topic of sup...
Bilingual nurseries can make children more creative, tolerant and bett...
Interesting article from the daynursuries.co.uk: Bilingual nurseries in the UK are helping children to form a foundation to become fluent in multiple languages, with languages suc...
Should students learn another language at school?
Cynthia Dodd, president of the Modern Language Teachers’ Association of Queensland, recently spoke with Steve Austin on ABC Radio QLD about her concern for the future of Lan...
Adventures with gallery critique
Andy Tharby (Twitter: @atharby) is a Teacher of English in the UK who keeps a blog at http://reflectingenglish.wordpress.com. He writes regular posts reflecting on his teaching pr...
Australia in the Asian Century
Although the Australia in the Asian Century website has already been archived (http://pandora.nla.gov.au/pan/133850/20130914-0122/asiancentury.dpmc.gov.au/index.html) and is no lo...
The AFMLTA Professional Standards
From the AFMLTA Professional Standards Project Website (http://pspl.afmlta.asn.au/standards.html): In 2004, the AFMLTA was granted funding by the former Department of Education, S...
