Translanguaging: Recognising, valuing and celebrating Aboriginal students’ language backgrounds in teaching and learning

Translanguaging: Recognising, valuing and celebrating Aboriginal students’ language backgrounds in teaching and learning

Translanguaging is currently one of the hottest topics in Applied Linguistics around the world, and arguably a key issue in developing meaningful, respectful and effective improvements in cross-cultural classrooms. But what is it? How do researchers understand it? What does it look like in the classroom? But most importantly, how can it help improve Aboriginal […]

AFMLTA Free Professional Learning Webinars

The next AFMLTA free webinar is: An introduction to Content and Language Integrated Learning (CLIL) Presenter: Kylie Farmer, AFMLTA Executive Member Tuesday 6 March 2018, 4 – 4.45pm AWST (7 – 7.45pm AEDT) To participate live in the webinar just copy and paste the link below into your internet browser or access it via your tablet/phone, you don’t need to register in […]

Australian Computational and Linguistics Olympiad

Are you good at problem solving, uncovering patterns and cracking codes? OzCLO, the Australian Computational and Linguistics Olympiad, a state, national and international competition for secondary students (Years 9 – 12) will run again in 2018! To register a school team, go to www.ozclo.org.au. UWA Linguistics will be running a training session for students who have not competed in OzCLO before, and this will […]

International Mother Language Day 2018

International Mother Language Day 2018

The Modern Language Teachers Association of WA warmly invites members and friends to start the year with a networking event, held on International Mother Language Day (IMLD), 21 February, at the State Library of WA, starting at 4pm. Celebrating IMLD is a perfect way to remind ourselves of the crucial role that language plays in education […]

WILTA report August 2017

WILTA report August 2017

  At the 2016 AGM while making the necessary constitutional changes for the new laws governing associations, we also made some changes to the WILTA Committee so that we had an elected Professional Learning Coordinator to be responsible for teacher development and also a Competition Coordinator to run our now annual competition ‘Kompetisi Klip-klip’. This […]