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Tweet Under the Territory Government’s controversial changes to bilingual education, all students will learn in English only for the first four hours of the day from next year, notes ABC. A report released in Canberra by the Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies states there is no evidence to suggest the policy [...] Tweet Australia: In 2003, at the Kalkaringi Community Education Centre, a bush school on what was once known as Wave Hill station, teachers George and Robyn Hewitson put the first remote area indigenous students – 3 of them in total – through year 12. They put another three through in 2005.The six received only basic [...] Tweet Australia: Britain’s colonial empire may be long gone, but the language that helped run and often unite it has helped build an empire of a different kind. This English language empire needs to be nurtured and protected by universities in English-speaking countries such as Australia, Britain and the US if it is to survive [...] Tweet Australia: Northern Territory Education Minister Marion Scrymgour has buckled to a backlash from the bush in her bid to force teachers in remote Aboriginal schools to teach predominantly in English, notes TheAustralian.com. Ms Scrymgour said yesterday that a requirement to teach the first four hours in English would be negotiated with each of the [...] Tweet Australia: The Territory Government says from next year all schools will teach in English for the first four hours of each day. It is facing a revolt from remote teachers who vow to continue teaching in Aboriginal languages, despite the order to teach in English. Award-winning teacher Yalmay Yunupingu said yesterday she would refuse [...] Tweet Australia: Minister Marion Scrymgour has repeatedly said there is no evidence to show that bilingual schools accelerate English literacy. But two reports by her own department have surfaced. Both say schools that teach young indigenous children in their own language in initial years, and gradually introduce English, ultimately achieve better English literacy outcomes. Read [...] Tweet Australia’s Race Discrimination Commissioner says bilingual teaching is one of few success stories in the recent history of Northern Territory education. Tom Calma says the Northern Territory Government is ill-advised to implement restrictions on traditional language teaching in bilingual schools. The new policy starts at the beginning of the 2009 school year (as [...] Tweet 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 [...] Tweet 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 [...] Tweet 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. [...]  |
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