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FIPF 13 th World Conference
Call for papers for the International Association of Teachers of French 13th World Conference, which will take place in Durban from the 23 to the 27 July 2012.
Download: call for papers [EN] 30.03.11 — 357.7 kb — PDF
Download: Call for papers [EN] 30.03.11 — 565 kb — Word
TOFA STICKERS
The winners of the TOFA sticker competition for 2010 have been announced. Congratulations to all the winners and "un très grand merci" to all the the students who participated (and their teachers of course!) You will find the list of 2010 winners in the attachment below. The 2010 stickers are currently at the printers, so they will be available soon. The sample page below are the stickers from 2009, which are still available.
Download: 2009 STICKERS SAMPLE PAGE [EN] 8.11.09 — 1.5 Mb
Download: STICKER ORDER FORM [EN] 6.12.09 — 25 kb
Download: Sticker Winners 2010 [EN] 20.08.10 — 84.8 kb
French Syllabus Review. Proposed Changes and Survey
The Council, through the French Course Advisory Committee, is reviewing the French course. Find attached the latest proposed changes and a survey form. Become involved in the process of reviewing the course and provide your feedback!!
Download: Proposed changes [EN] 30.03.11 — 142.5 kb
Download: French Syllabus Review [EN] 30.03.11 — 659.9 kb
UWA TER BONUS FOR LANGUAGES IN 2011
From 2011, the University of WA will offer a TER bonus to WA Certificate of Education students who undertake study of a language other than English in Year 12. Open the attached document to find out more.
Download: TER BONUS FOR LANGUAGES [EN] 14.05.10 — 24.6 kb
LANGUAGES EDUCATION IN AUSTRALIA NEWSLETTER
Link to the newsletter LANGUAGES EDUCATION IN AUSTRALIA Volume 5 Number 1, 17 February 2011
Download: Newsletter [EN] 4.03.11 — 26 kb
FRENCH SONGS IN CLASS
Nicky Griffin Appadoo has been very kind to share with us an extensive list of songs she uses in her French Classes. Check them out and let Nicky know what your favourite songs are. Find Nicky’s list attached.
Download: Nicky’s song list [EN] 13.05.11 — 104.7 kb
Applied Linguistics Association of Australia (ALAA) and Applied Linguistics Association of New Zealand (ALANZ) 2nd Combined Conference
Abstracts are invited for presentations at the second combined conference of the Applied Linguistics Association of Australia (ALAA) and the Applied Linguistics Association of New Zealand (ALANZ) to be held in Canberra from Wednesday 30 November to Friday 2 December 2011. The conference will be hosted by the University of Canberra and the Australian National University.
Please open the attached file to find out more.
Download: Call for Papers [EN] 17.05.11 — 379.9 kb
BECOME AN EXPERT IN TEACHING PROFESSIONAL FRENCH
Enrol in the Professional French Language Intensive Summer Course offered by the CELAF Summer University.
Download: Summer Course [EN] 17.05.11 — 40.7 kb
Advice to Curriculum Writers for Australian Curriculum
The attached document provides advice to Curriculum Writers for Australian Curriculum in terms of how much time they are writing for. Note that the specification is that the total of time should not exceed more than 80% of the available time.
Download: Indicative Times [EN] 26.08.11 — 105.7 kb
PTCWA Awards for Professional Service and Media Awards
Anne Tumak, the President of the Professional Teaching Council of Western Australia (PTCWA). "Attached are our annual PTCWA awards for Professional Service and Media Awards. These are also available on our website, www.ptcwa.wa.edu.au.
I encourage you to nominate someone within your association who has provided outstanding service and is to be acknowledged by your peers.
REMEMBER we invite EVERY association to nominate one member as these are YOUR AWARDS, recognising someone who volunteers their time to support your association! Have them recognised!
DEADLINE 5th September....."
Download: Media Award Nomination [EN] 26.08.11 — 533.6 kb
Download: Professional Service Award Nomination [EN] 26.08.11 — 592.8 kb
News on ACARA’s Ongoing Processes For The Development of the Australian Curriculum
Dear Colleagues,
Recently, as part of ACARA’s ongoing processes related to the development of a final Shape of the Australian Curriculum: Languages Paper, AFMLTA executive members were involved in a teleconference with ACARA personnel related to the recent consultation process and the resulting responses in the Shape Paper: Languages. The teleconference review was with AFMLTA as the peak professional teacher association representing languages teachers. ACARA advice is that this process is being conducted with other key agencies.
At the core of the teleconference were two initial questions: 1) Could AFMLTA identify our responses and concerns appropriately reflected in the Consultation Feedback Report? and 2) Could AFMLTA identify the responses and changes being made in the Shape Paper?
The discussion was wide ranging. Some matters require further consideration by ACARA.
The result of the consultation process should be the Consultation Feedback Report and the final (revised) Shape of the Australian Curriculum: Languages Paper being submitted to the ACARA Board for their August Meeting.
The likely outcome from there is the release of the revised Shape Paper and the Consultation Report, as well as the naming of the reconstituted Advisory Panel for Languages in late August. It is NOT anticipated that Curriculum Writers will be identified at the same time as the Advisory Panel.
Alongside these actions is the ongoing processes for developing Procedures and Guidelines to support the work of curriculum writers. AFMLTA is being involved in the consultative processes around the development of this document.
Subject to ACARA’s work plan, the staged development of language specific curriculum begins, with trial of material planned for in the latter part of 2013.
It is important to note that all Ministers of Education have affirmed their commitment to an Australian Curriculum in all 8 key learning areas under the Melbourne Declaration. That affirmation is contained in a Communique available at: http://www.mceecdya.edu.au/verve/_resources/C12_Communique_8_July_2011.pdf Please feel free to distribute the information in this email to colleagues.
Regards Sherryl
Sherryl Saunders President, AFMLTA | Vice-President, JCQTA
AISWA BROCHURE FOR EUROPEAN LAMGUAGES
Find attached the AISWA’s new Brochure for European Languages
Download: EUROPEAN LANGUAGES [EN] 26.08.11 — 361 kb
New WACE Resource Lists
The Curriculum Council is developing a series of WACE Resource Lists to support teachers and others in their selection of resources for the delivery of the WACE courses. I would welcome your assistance in including the following information in your newsletter to your members requesting their support in the development of this valuable resource.
I encourage Teachers of French to support the development of the WACE Resource Lists. This set of lists will support experienced classroom teachers, heads of learning areas, curriculum leaders and teacher-librarians, teachers new to Western Australian schools or new to teaching year 11 and 12 in their selection of resources for the delivery of the WACE courses.
Teachers can assist by opening the French Resource List (excel) document below and adding any resources (print, website and multimedia resources) that they are presently using and have found useful in the delivery of the WACE French course. To this end we will have assembled an up-to-date, reliable and respected set of resources that are used by many teachers delivering the WACE French course.
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Download: WACE Resource List [EN] 26.08.11 — 10.5 kb
Professional Development Opportunities for 2012. Leadership in Languages and Many Languages One Methodology.
Please find attached brochures for the 2012 Leadership in Languages and Many Languages, One Methodology PDs organised by AISWA.
Download: leadership in Languages [EN] 8.11.11 — 227.3 kb
Download: Many Languages, One Methodology [EN] 8.11.11 — 196.4 kb