MLTA ACT Events

2025

Program overview:

• Differentiation in the language classroom – Nabila Aliane
• Elevating your PowerPoint skills - Philiuppe Messer
• Linguistic masterclasses – Stuart A Blair

This event is TQI accredited (5 hours).

Fee $50 for members, $120 for non-members, including lunch. Registration will be via TryBooking (link TBA).

For more details, see the Language PL flier.

For more details, see the News page

$90 for members, $160 for non-members

Sign up by Monday 5 May 10:30 am, using this TryBooking link.

For details, see Lena's email.

Venue University of South Australia (City West Campus)

No fee for members, Fee TBA for non-members

No fee for members, Fee TBA for non-members

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.

2024

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.

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.

Light refreshments included. For more details, see the flier here.

This event is TQI accredited.

Fee: $60 members, $120 non-members.

To register and pay: Trybooking link by COB Tuesday 28 May.

Runder Tisch der deutschen Sprache - ACT.

Registration via Eventbrite.

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.

Book your tickets here via the AF Canberra website.

See the broadcast email sent to members on 20 June. This scholarship, originally known as the FIPLV Congress 1988 Scholarship, was established after the success of the 1988 FIPLV World Congress on language learning hosted by the MLTA ACT Inc.

For details, please refer to the MLTA ACT Scholarship 2024 flier

Please submit applications via this Google form.

Smith's Alternative

A Mother Tongue event with Mimi Zhang as feature presenter. Born in Guangzhou, Mimi has lived in Canberra since 1988. A teacher, community interpreter, singer and local entrepreneur, Mimi has been writing short stories and memoirs for over 20 years. She will present poems in Mandarin and Cantonese from ‘Window’ and some more recent work.

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

Meet the new AF Director, Nabila Mazouzi who will outline some of her plans to us.

For more details, see Lena's email to French Network members.

Date limite: 31 août 2024; annonce des résultats: 31 octobre 2024 par email.

For details, see the CAP-FIPF flier.

Please use this Trybooking link to register for the session.

This session will empower you with practical skills for integrating AI tools into your French language teaching. For more details, see the Joe Dale PL flier.

Please use this google form to register your interest in attending.

For more details, see the flier.

Discussion will be led by a multilingual panel of parents, young adults who have grown up bilingually, and educators and academics involved in bilingual education. Participation is free, but registration is required. See the event flier for more details.

Registrations and more inforomation (including map) at the ANU Immersia 2024 page and also ACTBEA website and Facebook page.

Please email applications to fatfapresident@gmail.com.

For details, see the FATFA call for nominations.

MS Teams, Meeting ID: 436 763 631 955, Passcode: 9fcrJ5.

For more details, see the CIT Solutions flier.

Please let Lena know if you are coming.

For details, see Lena's email.

Two panel discussions will give stage time to the next generation of academic leaders, each a critical and inspirational discussion with the following research topics:

• Technological advancement and disease management
• Bilingualism: The importance of the German language and culture.

To register, visit the Canberra German Week Science and Innovation Day page.

For more information about Canberra German Week, visit the CGW website.

For more information, visit the Canberra Nara events page.

Smith's Alternative

Mother Tongue Multilingual Poetry Open Mic

A Mother Tongue event with Ivy Rahman and Vesna Cvjeticanin as feature presenters. Ivy is a writer, poet and social worker who was born and educated in Bangladesh and has lived in Canberra for over 3 decades. She has published several books in Bengali and one in English: ‘Heart on Fire’. Ivy will be sharing some of her poetry in the Bengali language. Vesna's first poetry book was released in Serbia a few weeks ago. Vesna, a poet, blogger, story-teller and radio producer, who writes in both Serbian and English, has been a long-term active contributor to MTMLP programs and events.

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

See the broadcast email sent to members on 8 October. This scholarship, originally known as the FIPLV Congress 1988 Scholarship, was established after the success of the 1988 FIPLV World Congress on language learning hosted by the MLTA ACT Inc.

For details, please refer to the MLTA ACT Scholarship 2024 flier

Please submit applications via this Google form.

This ATESOL workshop will be presented by Mei French, educational linguist, University of South Australia. For more details, see the flier here.

Cost: $20 for ATESOL ACT and interstate TESOL Association ACTA members; $40 non-members.

Please register via this Trybooking link.

We invite you to give 5-minute presentations on a topic of your choice. It could be language specific, hints and tips, resources, feedback on PL you have attended, wellbeing or cultural events. We will also be announcing PL and event plans for 2025. For more details, see the flier here.

The TeachMeet is free for our members but please register so that we have the appropriate sized room. Also, please indicate if you would like to stay on after the TeachMeet for dinner at the club.

Please register via Trybooking: Trybooking link for TeachMeet.

More details to come.

See the broadcast email sent to members on 1 November.

Please submit nominations via this Google form.

Members: $45; Non-members: $50

Book your tickets here via the AF Canberra website.

Our borrowing bonanza is back! Before we close for the Summer break come and borrow to your heart's content for your holiday reading pile!

See Das Zentrum website for details.

See the National Multicultural Festival website for more details.

For more details about CML senior secondary language courses, see the senior secondary language page on the CIT Solutions CML Language Hub site.

Select this link to join the event.

See the ACTBEA flyer for more details.

For details, see Lena's email.

FATFA, in conjunction with the French Embassy, is offering pedagogical bursaries ($500 each) to support Australian French teachers and their students in 2025. To be eligible, you need to be a 2025 financial member of the MLTAACT AND the French Section.

Applications should be sent to fatfapresident@gmail.com by Friday 28 February 2025.

For details, see the FATFA bursaries flyer.

MLTA ACT Annual General Meeting (AGM)

Fiona Arthur Award presentation

Finger food provided.

Smith's Alternative

Mother Tongue Multilingual Poetry evening

Featuring poetry from Canberra's own CJC Blue Bells Tanka Group with an introduction by Naoko and John Lamb.

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

For more details, see the Francophonie Markets website.

For more details, see the film festival website.

For latest details about CML senior secondary language courses, see the senior secondary language page on the CIT Solutions CML Language Hub site.

Selvie, our special guest speaker, is coming from Mauritius.

As with our previous gathering, refreshments will be available for purchase at the bar of the Alliance Française, and some light snacks will also be provided..

Please confirm your attendance via this Google form .

This year, as part of Francophonie Week, Canberra’s Francophone network is coming together for the first time to celebrate reading. This event is mainly for adults. For more details and for tickets, see the booking page on Eventbrite.