Welcome to MLTAWA
2008 International Year of the Languages
Chinese Year of the Rat
President's
Message
Hi all
If you have already registered then here is some info on our very
entertaining Keynote Speaker - Matthew Absalom!!!
If you haven't registered you may care to do so after you
read a little
about Matthew!
Not to late to
register!
Can we ask that all who attend please bring their Membership Cards if a
member.
Many thanks
Fulvia Valvasori
President MLTAWA
Head of Language Department PCC
Tel: +61 8 9243 6535
Fax:+ 61 8 9243 4140
Email:
mrfink@iinet.net.au
President MLTAWA
Endeavour Language Teacher Fellowships
The Endeavour
Language Teacher Fellowships (ELTF), a part of the broader Endeavour Awards,
are an Australian Government initiative for practising language teachers and
trainee (pre-service) language teachers in Australia to improve their
language proficiency and cultural knowledge.
Learn More
AGM Photos
1. Lesley Heinzman: Awarded
life membership
2. Lesley McPherson: Hilde
Dixon Award recipient
3. Rita Tognini: Awarded life
membership
4. Wendy Hewitt:
Retiring
President
5. Clare Buising:
Retiring
Treasurer
6. NEW COMMITEE Back
Row L > R...Denisse Scasserra, Kate Williams, Nadia Civa, Michael Boyle...Front
Row L > R Lina Adam, Fulvia Valvasori, Janine Tate, Robin Hunt
Australian Federation of
Modern Language Teachers Associations
News in Brief
Call for Papers
Professional Standards Project
Registrations and
Expressions of Interest are invited from teachers of languages at
Government, Catholic, Independent and Ethnic primary and secondary schools
in all states and territories of Australia to participate in a supported
professional learning program focused on the Professional Standards.
Website Members access or Membership issues
If you are a member and
do not have your username and password, please contact database manager
Apryl
OBrien.
Please contact
Phil
Chadwick for other website issues or
Kate Armitage
if you are concerned about your membership status.
MLTAWA
Welcome to the Home Page of the
Modern Language Teachers’ Association of Western Australia (MLTAWA). We
are the professional association that represents teachers of all languages
taught in Western Australian schools, TAFEs and tertiary institutions.
The MLTAWA, along with all the
other state associations, is affiliated with the national body, the
Australian Federation of Modern Language Teachers’ Association (AFMLTA),
which is involved in a range of activities aimed at promoting the teaching
and learning of languages. These include representing language teachers in
the formulation of government languages policies and initiatives at the
federal level.
Our state association, the MLTAWA,
represents Western Australian languages teachers at a national and state
level through promoting the teaching and learning of languages, lobbying
on significant issues, advising and preparing submissions for governments,
committees, industry and the community, providing professional leadership
at the state level across all languages and phases of schooling, compiling
and distributing information about language learning and teaching through
newsletters and emails and supporting the professional development of
languages teachers through conferences, seminars and workshops.
The MLTAWA is the umbrella
organization for all languages and, as such, complements and supports the
work of the various “unilingual” or single language associations that
represent all of the individual languages taught in Western Australia. Our
role is to focus on Big Picture issues that are relevant to all languages,
promoting debate and discussion within and across languages. This creates
solid ground and purpose for the unilinguals to focus on relevant,
language-specific issues that are proving beneficial to hundreds of
Western Australian language teachers.
Strengthening our common ground is
essential to our aim of increasing the number of Western Australian
students who continue their language learning through to the adult years,
ensuring they reach the highest possible levels of achievement. This will
undoubtedly prove invaluable in creating future world citizens.
