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Next events and current news

For updates as they become available, see Events and News pages.

Contributions are invited for the Semester 1 edition of MLTA ACT Contact newsletter for 2026. For details, see the email sent to members on 21 May from newsletter editor Myriam Davies.

MLTA SGM – a special general meeting was held on Tuesday 28 April 2026. Cathy Elliott was elected as MLTA ACT President and Gaëlle Guillermo-Tregoning as Treasurer. Congratulations to them both. See the current MLTA Council list below. Expressions of interest from members for the Vice-President position would be welcome. The meeting also approved updates for the MLTA constitution, including an adjustment to the quorum requirement for general meetings in line with the current model rules for ACT associations.

A highly successful workshop with Dr Gianfranco Conti took place at Telopea Park School Tuesday 26 May 2026. See more soon on the MLTA News page .

FATFA 2026 call for papers – see the MLTA News page.

Role and activities

The role of the MLTA is to promote language learning in the ACT by providing a voice for language teachers and to facilitate professional dialogue among ACT colleagues and with colleagues in other jurisdictions.

There are many benefits of membership, including those listed below. The MLTA supports members through:

Information provided to members via email broadcasts, news items and events listings
Language professional learning programs and association events that provide you with opportunities to maintain and update your skills as a practitioner and to network with colleagues
Publications including Contact, our MLTA ACT e-newsletter for language teachers, made available to members via email and the website each semester
Awards and scholarship opportunities such as the MLTA ACT (FIPLV) scholarship and the Fiona Arthur Language Teaching Award
Membership of the AFMLTA (Australian Federation of Modern Language Teachers Associations)
Subscription to Babel, a refereed journal published by AFMLTA
Participation in national programs, and in-person and online seminars and activities
Affiliation to the international association, the Fédération des Professeurs de Langues Vivantes (FIPLV)
Collaboration with other organisations such as ATESOL, ACTBEA, and CLSA.

For more information, see the MLTA ACT Constitution (updated 28 April 2026) and the Events and News pages.

Office Bearers (MLTA Council) 2026

Roles and responsibilities of MLTA office-bearers are outlined in the attachment updated as of March 2025. MLTA executive and committee members are listed below. To contact the committee or to a member of MLTA executive, please email mlta.act.inc@gmail.com.

Members – please consider nominating yourself or a colleague for the role of MLTA President, or as a committee to represent a language not yet represented on the 2025 committee, by emailing mlta.act.inc@gmail.com.

Role	Name	Language / Association Represented
Executive President	Cathy Elliott	Indonesian
Executive Vice-President	TBA
Executive Treasurer	Gaëlle Tregoning	French
Executive Secretary	Prudence Roveta	French
Publications Editor	Myriam Davies	French
Website Manager	Frank Keighley	French, German
Public Officer	Ravi Krishnamurthy	CLSA
Memberships Officer	Peggy Halas	French
CLSA liaison	Cathy Elliott	Indonesian
Committee member	Meri Dragicevic	Italian
Committee member	Alessia di Antonio	Italian
Committee member	Orion Lethbridge	Korean, Japanese
Committee member	Claire Thevenin-Smith	French
Committee member	Baba Touré	French
Committee member	Sayoko Aoyagi Thompson	Japanese
Committee member	Yuko Leffers	Japanese
Committee member	Sally Wang	Mandarin

Publications

Published editions of the MLTA ACT e-newsletter, Contact, are available via the links below.

MLTA Contact Newsletter 2025

Semester 2 2025 (July)
Semester 1 2025 (July)

MLTA Conference April 2025 – see Contact Semester 1 2025

Membership

Teachers of languages in Canberra and the ACT region are invited to become members for 2026. This includes eligibility to vote and stand for committee at the AGM. Please use this link with Trybooking. From 16 March, membership is at the standard rate, which is currently $70 (subject to change at or after the AGM if a change is endorsed).

Membership of MLTA ACT provides the benefits of newsletters, events, (after earlybird cycle) affiliation to the Australian Federation of Modern Language Teachers' Associations, (AFMLTA), including a subscription to the national language teachers' journal, Babel, as well as FIPLV (see "Role and activities" above).

For French teachers, there is the option to pay an additional $5 for membership of FATFA.

Contact details for MLTA ACT

Please note the new MLTA ACT postal address below, as of 27 February 2024:

Modern Language Teachers' Association of the ACT
PO Box 277
Belconnen ACT 2616

URL: https://www.mltaact.asn.au/
Email: mlta.act.inc@gmail.com
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