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Welcome to MLTAWA

2010 Year of the Tiger   

MLTAWA State Conference
Sat Aug 14 2010, University of WA

Guest Speaker: Associate Professor Angela Scarino

Content: National Curriculum, Changes in teaching and learning Languages, Games and Drama in Languages teaching, Languages and Literacy, Assessment in Languages, Advocacy and Leadership, Health and well-being for Languages teachers

Network while enjoying French morning tea and Indonesian lunch

Details, Conference Programme and Registration

Hope to see your there,
Fulvia
MLTAWA President
 

Membership Procedures

Please note that we have new membership procedures and also a new membership form. Membership will now take place only twice a year.

Rolling membership was explained. Members present were supportive of changes.
 

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 21^st 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

AFMLTA Conference details: AFMLTA Homepage

NZALT Biennial Conference 2010

Queenstown, 4 - 7 July, 2010
NZALT invites you to plan now to be in beautiful Queenstown in July to attend our 2010 conference, with the theme Scaling remarkable linguistic heights. Planning is now well underway for this exciting event. To download further information click here

Website or Member issues.

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.

MLTAWA

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.