[EDLING:46] Australia: Languages languish in schools: report

[Francis M. Hult]

The Age

Languages languish in schools: report

FOREIGN language teaching in schools has been neglected over the past decade as 
Federal Government rhetoric about Australian values and the "downgrading of 
multiculturalism" have turned the nation more inward.

That is the conclusion of a report commissioned by the Australian Council of 
State School Organisations.

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