Something very worrying is happening in the Northern Territory, notes website Crikey.com. The NT Minister for Education recently announced that indigenous languages can not be used in NT classrooms, except for one hour a day in the afternoons. This announcement has come as a shock to the indigenous community schools which use a bilingual program.
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For people living in Tenterfield, gaining TESOL accreditation used to mean either impersonal lessons over the Internet or travelling long distances to take the classes face-to-face.
Madison Davies and Carol Dearden are leading a group of locals trying to change this. A Certificate IV in TESOL, or Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages, provides participants [...]
Children will be taught grammar for the first time in more than 30 years, under changes to the school curriculum proposed by the National Curriculum Board. In a shift set to excite English language purists, the board has recommended students once again learn to sound out words, spell and correctly punctuate and structure sentences. [...]
Australia: In an effort to address failings in indigenous bilingual education, the Northern Territory Government will require the first four hours of every school day to be conducted in English, notes the Australian News. Announcing the decision yesterday, Territory Education Minister Marion Scrymgour said she supported indigenous language and culture, but her priority was to [...]
Bridging the gap between cultures and language has been made a little easier at Baverstock Oaks Primary School, with the addition of two new English language assistant teachers.The primary is one of the first in New Zealand to adopt specialist language aids to help the more than 165 of 800 students that are English as [...]
Expenditure by international students studying at English language schools was $242 million in the year ended March 2008, Statistics New Zealand said today. This expenditure was $7 million higher than for the year ended March 2007.
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Noneother than a Glenroy bricklayer says that a skills shortage has left him short-staffed, with his plans to recruit overseas workers thwarted by overly stringent English tests. Haydar Cakir, 29, said the national shortage of bricklayers federally recognised as an occupation in-demand had made it nearly impossible to recruit staff in Victoria.
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Further to my question about the importance of reading that I posted a couple of days ago, I recommend “When Reading is Stupid; the Why, How and What to Do About It” by the excellent Kate Marie Ryan, which appears over on the Australia / New Zealand blog.
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Turkey: Burç College’s Florya Branch Organizes Foreign Language Fair
The Florya branch of Burç College recently held its second annual foreign languages fair with participation from students and their parents at its campus in the Istanbul district of Bakırköy.
Bünyamin Erdoğan, head of the foreign languages department at the school, said “In non-English speaking countries [...]
Here are the latest TEFL headlines from Asia. Head over to the ELT World News blog for more:
China: Crazy English
India: How Good Are We in English?
Sri Lanka: Arming the People With a Weapon of Choice
Malaysia: English Language Project a Success
Perspective on Bilingual Educational System in Brunei
Guam English Language Proficiency Standards Developed
Malaysians Urged to Master English or Lose Out to WorldSouth Korea: Taps Into Global [...]
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