Offers guidelines, activities, and teaching methods that can be used in English classrooms serving bilingual, multicultural, and migrant youth. (RL)

Summarizes the results of a multidimensional study of a content-based bilingual education program piloted in a suburban high school in Melbourne, Australia in which specialist subjects taught in Vietnamese and Chinese were offered to Grades 9 and 10 students who were optionally enrolled in the Chinese-English or Vietnamese-English stream.…

This paper on bilingualism defines the concept and its usage throughout the world. The various dichotomies that have evolved in the study of bilingualism are described: compound and coordinate, simultaneous and successive, additive and subtractive, and elite and folk. Balanced bilingualism, usually referring to an individual who has roughly equal…

This primer is the first in a series of four trial primers intended to teach the speakers of the Murrinh-patha language to read and write in their mother tongue. The approach and method of this primer is eclectic, based on principles developed by Dr. Sarah Gudschinsky. It has been designed to teach the vowels…

Analyzes of the Australian linguistic scene, from the theoretical viewpoint of humanistic sociology and on the basis of empirical data collected from a number of surveys of ethnic groups. (Author/HP)

A review of bilingual education's history in Australia indicates widespread support of bilingualism and bilingual instruction since the nineteenth century, but a decline and end to bilingual programs during the first half of this century. Different state attitudes toward multiculturalism appear to have affected this aspect of educational history.…

Traces the development of Australia's educational policies toward Aboriginal children since important legal changes in 1967. Focuses on developing bilingual education, maintenance of culture and native language, and the movement toward Aboriginal self-determination. Suggests that the apparently inactive 1970s was a time of reflecting on…

This study describes changes at an Australian school for the deaf toward a language policy favoring the increased use of Australian Sign Language and bilingual pedagogy. Teachers' dissatisfaction with educational outcomes and current practices propelled these changes. Beliefs about language policy and practices are explored, as are the…

The assessment of sign language proficiency is essential for evaluating the outcomes of sign bilingual education. This paper reports an attempt to assess the sign language proficiency of children in a self-described sign bilingual program in Sydney by adapting a British Sign Language (BSL) test to Australian Sign Language (Auslan). The test…

The Commission on International Adult Education (CIAE) of the American Association for Adult and Continuing Education (AAACE) provides a forum for the discussion of international issues related to adult education in general, as well as adult education in various countries around the globe. The following purposes summarize the work of the…

On behalf of a national committee advising the Australian Minister of Education, two consultants prepared separate evaluations of language policy statements from the states of Victoria, South Australia, and Queensland. The three statements all support the teaching of languages other than English (LOTEs) in the public school system, but differ…

Advocates the use of traditional Aboriginal education methods in the Australian classroom in an attempt to provide bicultural as well as bilingual schooling for Aboriginal children. (CM)

Discusses issues related to the selection of non-English literature and folklore for instructing bilingual students: the treatment of fear and death, physical and mental handicaps, politics and nationalism, and didacticism in literature. (CM)

Describes an experience based reading program developed in Melbourne, Australia, for low-income and immigrant children and a series of books to be published which are based on this program. (MKM)

Australia, as far as Aboriginal languages are concerned, is not yet engaged in systematic language planning exercises. This is in contrast to other parts of the world where language planning is institutionalised and enforced. In this paper we chronicle some of the language planning exercises we have observed, been involved in, or have studied of…