MLTANSW Weekly Digest

MLTANSW Weekly Digest

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NESA positions
Subject Matter Expert Languages K-6 closing date 26 March 2021
Subject Matter Expert Languages 7-10 closing date 31 March 2021
 
NESA is consulting on the Collaborative Curriculum and Assessment Framework for Languages (CCAFL). This is a national curriculum and assessment framework for Continuers level courses in smaller candidature languages; Armenian, Chin Hakha, Hebrew, Khmer, Portuguese, Serbian, Turkish, Auslan, Croatian, Hindi, Macedonian, Punjabi, Sinhala, Yiddish, Bengali, Dutch, Hungarian, Persian, Romanian, Swedish, Bosnian, Filipino, Karen, Polish, Russian and Tamil. 
 
The framework outlines essential information that will be common to all CCAFL Languages developed using the Framework. Feedback will inform the development of the final CCAFL Framework. 
 
Individuals are invited to participate in the consultation and/or provide feedback via an online survey. There is one more online consultation meeting you can attend:
25 March 2021 4-5:30 pm 
Registration and access to the survey for the CCAFL framework for consultation is open from 1 March to 11 April. For more information, visit the NESA consultations page.

Following the successful keynote webinar by Gianfranco Conti on Saturday as part of our series of webinars, you might be interested in reading the recent blog post on The Language Gym by Kati Varela, MLTA NSW Media and AFMLTA Liaison Officer. 
Not a smooth or a straight-line path - Kati Varela on her "bumpy journey to Contification 
We look forward to sharing more resources as we consider the implications of cognitive load in our teaching and learning of languages.  
 

What teaching and learning resources do you use/need in your Languages program?  Participate in this survey to inform an understanding of the resources used and needed to provide quality Languages education opportunities for Australian students. 
 
This includes the teaching of Additional Languages, Community Languages and Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander languages.
 
This survey is part of the AFMLTA project being conducted for the Australian Government. 

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Linguafest 2021 - Stay tuned for the theme and signature item to be announced soon. Film entries will be due end of Term 3.