As part of a concerted effort to increase Asia-related curriculum content and boost intercultural understanding, students and staff from this Adelaide school have created a special garden. Find out more

Register now to build a meaningful partnership with a school in China through the Australia–China BRIDGE school partnerships project.

The programme includes pre- and post-programme webinars and a 10-day in-country professional learning programme with homestay. 

Find out more.

Places are filling fast for our upcoming Opening a Door into Asia events. If you are in South Australia, registrations are now open for the 9 June event in Adelaide. Find out more about this and other opportunities.

Hear economist Tim Harcourt speak about engaging with Asia at a breakfast seminar in Adelaide on May 8. More

A second seminar is set for Sydney on June 2, with Susan Calvert, Executive Director of the Office of International Engagement at the NSW Department of Premier and Cabinet, speaking. More

Explore our new Japanese page. With resources, links, curriculum information, illustrations of practice and more, get your students excited about learning Japanese.

Mobile app Parraoke is aimed at non-Mandarin speaking background learners aged between 7 and 12 years, using flipped classroom learning methodology. Explore for yourself!

Research update

• Teachers as Mediators in the Foreign Language Classroom (Kohler, 2015) explores the teaching practices of three Indonesian language teachers in secondary schools in South Australia, focusing on how they mediate their students’ language and culture learning from an intercultural perspective.
• ‘The struggle for welcome’: valuing difference through refugee stories in the English Curriculum (Henderson & Fitzgerald, 2014) elaborates on how literature about refugees can be used to develop students’ intercultural understanding. Using a short story about a young Vietnamese refugee, the article also highlights the potential to address the Asia and Australia’s engagement with Asia cross-curriculum priority.

Policy update

• The State of Play: Languages Education in Western Australia, published by the Government of Western Australia, School Curriculum and Standards Authority, offers an overview of pre-primary to Year 12 language provisions in WA, covering both in and out-of-school settings. The report sheds light on key challenges for the future of languages education in WA.