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State & Territory Information

Australian Capital Territory

New South Wales

Northern Territory

Queensland

South Australia

Tasmania

Victoria

  • Assessment and Reporting - LOTE
  • East Melbourne Language Centre
    Provides courses in multiple languages, workshops, corporate training and exam preparation at all levels.
  • Report : Languages for Victoria’s Future
    Background information and the report downloadable as a .pdf document.
  • Languages Online
    ‘For students learning French, German, Indonesian or Italian.’ Contains notes, activities, games, assessment tasks, print activities, flashcards and more.
  • Learning and Teaching Support
    ‘This section contains links to web sites, online resources and tools that provide learning and teaching support for teachers.’
  • LOTE
    Home page for Victoria.
  • Professional Learning
    ‘This section contains information, resources and tools to help teachers with their professional learning.’
  • Promoting the Benefits of Language Learning
    ‘A research paper outlining the benefits of learning a language based on research findings. It was commissioned by the LOTE Unit and compiled by the Research Unit for Multilingualism and Cross Cultural Communication.’ Download in .pdf format.
  • VCAA - VCE Studies
    Provides links to all language studies via an alphabetical listing of subjects.
  • Victorian Education Channel
    ‘A Government Channel providing enhanced public access and discovery of educational resources for students of all ages, teachers, parents and the wider community.’ Click on ‘Other Languages’.

Western Australia

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General Information

  1. Federal Government Support :
    • Additional Support
      [For the Teaching and Learning of Languages]
      Funding for specific projects and for Community Languages.
    • Asian Languages Professional Learning Project, The
      ‘Supported the teaching of Asian languages in schools through the delivery of innovative professional development for language teachers.’
    • NALSAS Strategy
      [National Asian Languages and Studies in Australian Schools]
      ‘Assisted government and non-government schools to improve participation and proficiency levels in language learning in four targeted Asian languages - Japanese, Modern Standard Chinese, Indonesian and Korean, and to support the studies of Asia across the curriculum.’ Its Links page is well worth a visit.
    • Prospects for The Future of LOTE Education in Australia
      Covers ‘Why Study LOTE ?’, Issues, Role for the Commonwealth, Future Options.
  2. General Sites & Portals :
    • Community Languages Australia
      ‘Carrying out a number of crucial roles in the creation, maintenance, and profile of Australia’s over 1 000 community language schools, who provide language maintenance in 69 languages to in excess of 100 000 school age children.’.
    • Language Book Centre
      Has Primary and Secondary catalogues of books for a range of languages.
    • LOTE & ESL Teaching Resources
      An array of links compiled by James Cook University.
    • LOTE Bookshop, The
      [‘A language learner’s bookshop and teachers’ resource centre.’]
    • Languages
      From The Learning Federation.
    • LOTE Links
      An extensive listing of links in a range of directories and for several languages in particular.
    • Subject Area Guides
      Done by the Central Queensland University. ‘Designed to assist you in locating information for LOTE courses.’

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