Australia: Language fund risks being lip service

[Francis Hult]

The Australian

 

Language fund risks being lip service

 

Australian Council of State School Organisations president Steve Carter said the centres would be of great benefit as long as past failures to promote languages were turned around. 

 

"There's not much point in putting money into infrastructure if it's not accompanied by the human resources to actually maximise those centres," Mr Carter said. 

 

"The two of them need to go hand in hand. So we would look forward to an additional resourcing into the training of specialist language teachers." Other education advocates said the language centres should be interactive classrooms, where students could engage via the internet with native speakers in other countries, rather than language rooms of the past. 

 

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http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/story/0,25197,25697076-12332,00.html

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