Welcome to MLTAWA
2009 Year of the Ox
OzCLO
is the
Australian Computational
and Linguistics Olympiad,
a state and national competition for secondary students. It introduces
students to language puzzles from which they can learn about the richness,
diversity and systematic nature of language, while exercising natural logic
and reasoning skills.
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Perth International Arts Festival
MLTAWA is pleased provide links to information on the
Perth International Arts Festival.
Please visit the Schools
Page to view the many educational activities on offer. When
participating in a schools event, you and your students receive resources
and support in relation to the event and access to an array of
educational
resource materials to assist you in planning for the event and
integrating it into your teaching and learning programs.
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Website Members access or Membership issues
If you are a member and
do not have your username and password, please contact webmaster
Phil
Chadwick.
Also contact
Phil
Chadwick for other website issues or
Michael Boyle if you are concerned about your membership status.
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.
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.
