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Annual Language Testing Program (ALC)
You may be aware that the Australian Council for Educational Research (ACER) offers schools an annual language testing program, held in the first week of August. The tests are known as the Assessment of Language Competence (ALC) and are now in their 21st year of delivery.
The tests cover six languages (Chinese, French, German, Indonesian, Italian and Japanese) at three levels (Certificates 1, 2 and 3). At Certificate 1 level, listening skills only are tested, while both listening and reading skills are tested at the other two levels.
For more information please view the ALC Brochure.
Australian
Federation of Modern Language Teachers Associations
18th Biennial
Conference Darwin 6-9 July 2011
The MLTAWA website is updated by Phil Chadwick under the direction of the MLTAWA committee. There is no longer a member section, with full access available to all visitors. For membership issues such as membership status, please contact Paula O'Donnell.
Welcome to the Home Page of the Modern Language Teachers’ Association of Western Australia (MLTAWA). We are the professional association that represents teachers of all languages taught in Western Australian schools, TAFEs and tertiary institutions.
The MLTAWA, along with all the other state associations, is affiliated with the national body, the Australian Federation of Modern Language Teachers’ Association (AFMLTA), which is involved in a range of activities aimed at promoting the teaching and learning of languages. These include representing language teachers in the formulation of government languages policies and initiatives at the federal level.
Our state association, the MLTAWA, represents Western Australian languages teachers at a national and state level through promoting the teaching and learning of languages, lobbying on significant issues, advising and preparing submissions for governments, committees, industry and the community, providing professional leadership at the state level across all languages and phases of schooling, compiling and distributing information about language learning and teaching through newsletters and emails and supporting the professional development of languages teachers through conferences, seminars and workshops.
The MLTAWA is the umbrella
organization for all languages and, as such, complements and supports the
work of the various “unilingual” or single language associations that
represent all of the individual languages taught in Western Australia. Our
role is to focus on Big Picture issues that are relevant to all languages,
promoting debate and discussion within and across languages. This creates
solid ground and purpose for the unilinguals to focus on relevant,
language-specific issues that are proving beneficial to hundreds of
Western Australian language teachers.


Strengthening our common ground is essential to our aim of increasing the number of Western Australian students who continue their language learning through to the adult years, ensuring they reach the highest possible levels of achievement. This will undoubtedly prove invaluable in creating future world citizens.