Journal article
Repairing languages education
Online Opinion, Vol.16 May
2008
Abstract
You ask: What's the point of language teaching? Is it just economic, or are the biggest benefits intrinsic? What languages should be taught, how should we determine priorities? We need to do so much to repair languages education in this country, it is puzzling to know where to begin, what to prioritise. If we start from lower primary school (again) and do not let it fizzle along the way (again), we could create a thorough, sequenced and effective system, priming students in school and refining them at universities as the 1994 Rudd Report recommended. That would have no effect on the tertiary system until 2020, no effect on the society and economy until 2024 or so.
Details
- Title
- Repairing languages education
- Authors
- Phillip Mahnken (Author) - University of the Sunshine Coast - Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences
- Publication details
- Online Opinion, Vol.16 May
- Publisher
- Internet Thinking Pty Ltd.
- Date published
- 2008
- ISSN
- 1442-8458
- Copyright note
- Copyright © 2008 The Author. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons License. Reproduced here with permission.
- Organisation Unit
- University of the Sunshine Coast, Queensland
- Language
- English
- Record Identifier
- 99449519102621
- Output Type
- Journal article
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