MLTA ACT Events

2024

11 am to 1 pm

Albert Hall

The theme this year is Art and Culture: A key to Social Cohesion. After the official opening at 11am, student performances will include traditional dancing, singing and reading in their heritage languages. There will also be 25 to 30 Stalls showcasing community language schools' teaching resources and traditional handicrafts PLUS some cultural food to share. At 1 pm, there will be a roundtable for community language teachers. Discussion will focus on classroom and venue hire, including rent and other requirements.

Fee: $60 members, $120 non-members. More details soon.

FIPLV is the international association of teachers of languages.

See the conference website for conference details.

See the conference registration page for registration details including early registration with significant discounts.

Presenters will include Elizabeth Espinosa (Advocate for Diverse Women in Law, past president of NSW Law Society, keynote on Friday evening) and Stuart Blair (les bandes-dessinées). There will also be presentations by scholarship recipients.

More details soon.

2025

Venue and dates tba

2023

Session 1 of 2.

Register via Trybooking. Registrations close Monday 13 March.

Celebrating Australia's diversity of languages and cultures.

Canberrans are invited to join in a Language Walk to mark the UNESCO-designated International Mother Language Day on Sunday 26 February. At 10.30 am, participants will meet under the flags near the National Library. There will then be a community language walk over Kings Avenue Bridge, ending near the Police memorial at about 11.30am with a picnic and sausage sizzle. More details on IMLM website.

Session 2 of 2.

Please note the change of date for Session 2.

Main Stage,
National Museum of Australia (NMA)

A Mother Tongue event with Anita Patel, Hangama Obaidullah, and Jolly Bhattacharjee, as part of the Tapestry of Cultures Festival.

For more information, see the Mother Tongue Multilingual Poetry page on Facebook.

10 am to 2:30 pm

Albert Hall

The CLSA Open Day program will commence at 10 am.

Performances by community language schools will run from 11 am to 12:45 pm.

A roundtable discussion for principals and teachers will take place from 1 pm to 2:30 pm.

Feature poet will be Akka Ballenger Constantin

For more information, see the Mother Tongue Multilingual Poetry page on Facebook.

Alliance Française de Canberra
66 McCaughey Street, Turner. ACT

The French section of MLTA-ACT will provide ACT French teachers with access to membership of FATFA (Fédération des Associations des Professeurs de Français en Australie).

French cheese and bread will be provided. Drinks will be available for purchase from the bar.

RSVP : Please reply by submitting the form by Tuesday 23 May, 2023, 16h / 4p.m.

Lesson planning and delivering. Please refer to email notifications for details.

General group presentations followed by language group sessions.

Morning tea will be provided.

This will be a members-only event and there will be no charge.

For details, see the workshop flier.

• An event organised by the ACT Bilingual Education Alliance
• Languages activities for all ages
• Find out more about languages spoken, used, taught and learned in Canberra
• Morning tea and light lunch provided
• Free, but booking requested via Eventbrite. For details, see ACTBEA website.

Please send your articles to myriam.davies@ed.act.edu.au by the start of Week 9 (Friday 19 June).

Participants may share their work at the MTMLP Mic event a week later (see the event item for 1 July 2023)

For updates, see the Mother Tongue Multilingual Poetry page on Facebook.

Mother Tongue Multilingual Poetry (MTMLP) open mic event, featuring poet and musician Karina Palomita. People who participated in the workshop with Andrew Moss (see the event item for 24 June 2023) may share their work.

This MT event is part of the Poetic City Winter Edition Festival. Poetic City also has a Potluck Story Share at 2pm on Sunday 2 July. The Potluck Story Share is for those who choose to share a story or poem that carries your history, your ancestry, your culture, or just listen.

For updates, see the Mother Tongue Multilingual Poetry page on Facebook.

• Welcome reception on Friday 7 July at Boola Bardip, WA Museum, with Keith Horwood Memorial lecture by Kathleen Heugh and museum gallery tour
• Full day conference on Saturday 8 July hosted by ECU Mr Lawley; Conference Dinner at DoubleTree by Hilton Northbridge, with speaker Louka Parry, CEO of Learning Future
• Full day conference on Sunday 9 July hosted by ECU Mt Lawley
• Invited speakers Joanne McPake, University of Strathclyde, Gloasgow; Professor Catherine Travis, Professor of Modern European Languages, ANU
• Visit the AFMLTA Conference website for details.

For details, see Lena's email.

For details, see Lena's email.

For details, see Lena's email.

Cost $85. For details, see Lena's emails.

Please apply using this Google form by COB Friday 20 October 2023.

For details, see the scholarship flier.

This session will be held via Zoom teleconference.

Differentiation tools and games for the language classroom.

Registration is via Google Form.

For more information, see the broadcast email sent to to members on 28 September and the program flyer.

For more information, see the Mother Tongue Multilingual Poetry page on Facebook.

See the broadcast email sent to members on 9 October.

Please submit nominations via this Google form.

Please arrive ahead of the start time, so that you can board the boat before departure.

Members $50, Non-members $88.

To register, please use the Trybooking form or select the QR code from the flyer (link below).

For details, see the flyer.

Unlocking the power of comprehension-based languge teaching Registration is via TryBooking.

See NMF Program for more details.

For information about languages at the NMF, see the latest Canberra Region Languages Forum update.

Canapés will be provided and attendees may purchase drinks at their own cost.

We will be presenting the Fiona Arthur Language Teaching Award during our get together.

Please register using this RSVP link by COB Friday 16 February

Celebrating Australia's diversity of languages and cultures.

UN International Mother Language Day in 2024 is on 21 February. International Mother Language Day was first proclaimed by UNESCO and later adopted by the UN General Assembly. For more information about the UN observances, see the United Nations Mother Language page.

For details about the 2024 Canberra Mother Language Walk on 25 February, see the IMLM Canberra poster.

Please come along to learn more about the behind the scenes work and consider joining the Committee to support our vibrant association!

You can either send the nomination form beforehand, or fill in a form at the meeting. If you would like to nominate yourself or a colleague and you are unable to attend, please send in a proxy vote form. For the schedule, see the AGM agenda.

Programs are offered in French, German, Japanese, Korean, Spanish and Tamil.

• Information and advice on learning languages in Years 11-12.
• Receiving credit for your languages studies towards the ACT Senior Secondary Certificate and towards the ATAR.
• How the programs are set up.
• How to find current information through online systems about programs throughout the year.
• What you need to do if you are planning to commence with CML in Q2.
• Q2 at CML will commence in Week 10 of Term 1 (two weeks before the term break and four weeks before commencement of Term 2), to ensure there are sufficient teaching weeks to meet requirements for the Q2 half unit.

To register and to receive a link for the information session , please email CitsolLanguages@cit.edu.au.

In this 4-hour session, including a 30-minute break, you'll dive into comprehensible input methodologies like TPRS, TPR, and Picture Talk. Led by Bu Cathy Elliott and Mei Turnip.

Fee: $50. Morning tea is provided; however BYO lunch. RSVP by 23rd March via Trybooking.

Smith's Alternative, 76 Alinga St, Canberra City

For more information, see the Mother Tongue Multilingual Poetry page on Facebook.