[lg policy] Re: lgpolicy-list Digest, Vol 55, Issue 15

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>   1. Fwd: [LINGANTH] 4th Cambridge Conference on Lang
>      Endangerment: Cambridge, UK, 4 Jul 2014 (Harold Schiffman)
>   2. Australia: NSW Auditor-General Grant Hehir says shortfall of
>      teachers for Asian language studies (Harold Schiffman)
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> Date: Thu, 14 Nov 2013 10:32:17 -0500
> From: Harold Schiffman <haroldfs at gmail.com>
> Subject: [lg policy] Fwd: [LINGANTH] 4th Cambridge Conference on Lang
>    Endangerment: Cambridge, UK, 4 Jul 2014
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> Dear All,
> 
> I am  delighted to announce that the Fourth Cambridge Conference on
> Language Endangerment will take place in the Alison Richard Building,
> University of Cambridge on July 4th 2014.
> 
> This year's theme is 'Orthography Development for Language Maintenance and
> Revitalisation'.
> 
> For further details, and the Call for Papers, please see the conference
> website:
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> http://www.mml.cam.ac.uk/news/fourth-cambridge-conference-language-endangerment
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> Harold F. Schiffman
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> Professor Emeritus of
> Dravidian Linguistics and Culture
> Dept. of South Asia Studies
> University of Pennsylvania
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> Date: Thu, 14 Nov 2013 11:11:11 -0500
> From: Harold Schiffman <hfsclpp at gmail.com>
> Subject: [lg policy] Australia: NSW Auditor-General Grant Hehir says
>    shortfall of teachers for Asian language studies
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> Auditor-General Grant Hehir says shortfall of teachers for Asian language
> studies
> DateNovember 14, 2013
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> [image: Children in year three participate in a multi lingual lesson.]
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> Lacking language teachers: NSW schools are missing out on the chance to
> study a continuous course of Asian languages due to the low numbers of
> language qualified teachers. *Photo: Brendan Esposito*
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> NSW is short of more than 2500 teachers to provide students with a
> continuous course in Asian languages from kindergarten to year 12.
> 
> The Auditor-General Grant Hehir has reported on NSW's progress in the
> national Australia in the Asian Century policy introduced by the Gillard
> government.
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> The policy aims to provide all Australian students with the chance to study
> an Asian language throughout their school years by 2025.
> 
> However, the audit released on Wednesday showed there are not enough
> qualified teachers to deliver the policy, which identifies Chinese
> (Mandarin), Hindi, Indonesian, Japanese and Korean as priority languages.
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> ''The department advises the delivery of a face-to-face Asian language
> program to students, kindergarten to year 12, for two hours per week at a
> ratio of 250 students per teacher, would require approximately 3000
> full-time equivalent teachers,'' the Auditor-General's report said. ''The
> department currently has 479 permanent qualified teachers of Asian
> languages.''
> 
> Figures from the NSW Department of Education showed that of 726,870 public
> school students in kindergarten to year 12, just 71,343 were learning an
> Asian language in 2011.
> 
> Only 17 students studied Hindi for the HSC exams last year and none was
> taught at school. A total of 15,177 students in kindergarten to year 10
> studied community-run language programs in 2011.
> 
> ''Under the National Asian Languages and Studies in Schools Program in NSW,
> 20 teachers qualified as teachers of an Asian language, and another 40 will
> graduate next year,'' a spokesman for the department said.
> 
> The federal Department of Education last year said there were just 3000
> teachers across the country teaching Asian languages in schools.
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