voucher) Secondary School Category 1. Blackburn High School, Fußball Weltmeisterschaft Show, German ($ 300 book voucher) 2. Camberwell High School, Piala Dunia Ha Ha!, Indonesian ($ 200 book voucher) 3. Blackburn High School, Fußball ist sehr gut, German ($100 book voucher) EMR would like to congratulate all students and teachers from winning schools. The EMR Podcast Play Competition aimed to: • •
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encourage students to draft, plan and write plays in a LOTE develop the students’ ability to plan, script and rehearse and think about the way they speak and consider the ways speech can be used to entertain, inform and influence others challenge and extend students’ speaking skills in the LOTE help students investigate the language use of effective communicators develop the students’ ability to use ICT for sound editing help students investigate the use of sound effects and music in podcast plays.
We are hoping that more schools will participate next year. Details about the podcast play competition will be sent to schools in Term 1 next year.
Talking About Languages DVD This DVD for schools and school leaders focuses on matters related to languages education and especially on the pedagogy related to second language acquisition. It provides examples of good practice in languages teaching and learning and contains interviews with principals and academics about what contributes to the success, quality and sustainability of languages programs in Australia. Contents:
AGTV to spend 10 weeks in Germany at the end of this school year, and will stay with a host family. Our college has boasted two previous recipients of this scholarship, in 1998 and 2000. Very few students in government schools are fortunate enough to win these scholarships, so the German teachers at Heathmont are extremely proud of his efforts. In four weeks, eleven of Heathmont College's Year 10 German students will travel to Germany with twelve students from Vermont SC to spend a month at our sister-school in Kaufungen in central Germany. We have had this successful partnership since 1996 and have maintained the exchange annually since that time. Such is the strength of our programme that we are even at the point where host parents are being invited to the weddings of students who have lived with them during the exchange! Lynette Tonkin LOTE Co-ordinator (German and Indonesian) Heathmont College
• Principals talk about languages programs • The languages classroom • Academics talk about second language
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acquisition, research and good practice: - Professor Jo Lo Bianco, The University of Melbourne - Assoc. Professor Michael Clyne, The University of Melbourne - Assoc. Professor Angela Scarino, University of South Australia - Dr Margaret Gearon, Monash University - Dr. John Lando, Australian Catholic University.
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