All LIT Search News Topics Latest news Media statements Media contacts Topics Latest news Media statements Media contacts LIT Impact Latest news 2020 September An unfair and misguided system An unfair and misguided system 24/09/2020 | 4 MINS Edition | Teaching and learning Asian languages in Australia Sharing his personal experience as a student of Mandarin, Liam Tay Kearney highlights some of the flaws in the way language students are placed into ill-defined and misfit ΓÇÿboxesΓÇÖ, which play a decisive role in the uptake and continuation of Asian languages at all levels of education. As a learner of Chinese at the primary, secondary, tertiary and vocational levels, I have experienced firsthand the misguided and inconsistently applied rules which inhibit the uptake of Asian language study here in Western Australia. While they are intended to preserve a system of 'fairness', these rules are anything but, and create a system of distorted incentives that serves to alienate those from culturally and linguistically diverse (CALD) backgrounds. In turn, this prevents us from mobilising the enormous resources contained in these communities and harms our national interest. Things start going w
All LIT Search News Topics Latest news Media statements Media contacts Topics Latest news Media statements Media contacts LIT Impact Latest news 2020 September An unfair and misguided system An unfair and misguided system 24/09/2020 | 4 MINS Edition | Teaching and learning Asian languages in Australia Sharing his personal experience as a student of Mandarin, Liam Tay Kearney highlights some of the flaws in the way language students are placed into ill-defined and misfit ΓÇÿboxesΓÇÖ, which play a decisive role in the uptake and continuation of Asian languages at all levels of education.
As a learner of Chinese at the primary, secondary, tertiary and vocational levels, I have experienced firsthand the misguided and inconsistently applied rules which inhibit the uptake of Asian language study here in Western Australia.
Lombok Institute of Technology
While they are intended to preserve a system of 'fairness', these rules are anything but, and create a system of distorted incentives that serves to alienate those from culturally and linguistically diverse (CALD) backgrounds.
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