Opportunity to participate in a national research project: Deadline extended! Great news! The State of EAL/D Education in Schools National Survey deadline has been extended. You now have until 20 December to take the survey. Investigating the state of English as an additional language/dialect (EAL/D) education in Australian schools and tracing EAL/D teaching courses at […]
ACTA’s submission to the Senate Education Inquiry into the Better and Fairer Schools Bill has now been published. Our submission includes ACTA’s response to the NT Government’s recent announcement that targeted funding for bilingual programs will be pooled within the ‘needs-based’ allocations to schools. Click here to read submissions to the committee on the APH
Announcement: We are thrilled to announce that ACTA’s contribution to the Foundation for Learning and Literacy Symposium is now online! Join ACTA Councillor Fran Murray as she explores “The role of First Language in Learning: The Power of Literature in students’ First Language in developing Bilingualism and Biculturalism” with co-presenters Jacinta Alimankini, Rachel Kantilla (Wurrumiyanga)
The ACTA Consultancy Group on Indigenous English as an Additional Language or Dialect provided feedback on the draft International Decade of Indigenous Languages Priorities Paper (the Priorities Paper) in 2023. In partnership with the International Decade of Indigenous Languages Direction Group (the Directions Group), the authors of the draft Paper incorporated ACTA’s feedback into the
Closing the Gap Webinar Recording On 29 February the Commission hosted a webinar where Commissioners Romlie Mokak and Natalie Siegel-Brown shared key messages from the Closing the Gap Review. See the recording of the webinar below. Other resources can be found on the Commission’s website. Share your Experience of the Review The Productivity Commission
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ACTA had a meeting with key members of the federal Department of Education’s National Schools Reform Agreement Task Force recently and committed ACTA to several follow actions, including: Developing a draft of what a national EAL/D measure can do, how it addresses Recommendation 5c, what it might look like, and what would be involved in
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Following a meeting with interim ACARA CEO Stephen Gniel and Director, Curriculum Sharon Foster on 8 February ACTA was asked to review the proposed changes to the existing ACARA EAL/D Course Advice and Annotations. To kick off the review Sharon Foster spoke to a joint forum of the ACTA Schools and First Nations EAL/D Consultancy
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The Department of Employment and Workplace Relations (DEWR) is working on designing a new stream in the Skills for Employment and Education (SEE) Program). This stream seeks to improve First Nations people’s access to tuition and training in literacy and numeracy. A SEE Program Stream 2 – First Nations Delivery Working Group has been providing
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In their most recent meeting (14 November), the Indigenous EAL/D Consultancy Group met with Pauline Halchuk, Director of the Indigenous Language Policy Taskforce in the Australian Government Office of the Arts. Pauline spoke briefly on her role, particularly in relation to her work on Closing the Gap Outcome 16: “ensuring that Aboriginal and Torres Strait
2023 December- Indigenous EAL/D Consultancy Group Meeting: Closing the Gap Read More »
Arts Minister Tony Burke says that “culture cannot be disconnected from language” at the launch of Australia’s Action Plan for the International Decade of Indigenous Languages (23 August 2023). To watch his speech on YouTube, click here (5 minutes).
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