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Features Of Serbo-Croatian For Language Teachers, Eric G. Vaszolyi
Features Of Serbo-Croatian For Language Teachers, Eric G. Vaszolyi
Research outputs pre 2011
Teachers of migrant children experience a great many difficulties in trying to understand and resolve their pupils' language problems. One basic problem is all too familiar: the teacher speaks English and the migrant child does not understand it or only understands it to some, rather limited, extent. Another problem area: the pupil picks up some English in the classroom, on the playground and out in the street but speaks it with a peculiar accent and peppers it with phonemic, grammatical and semantic errors. The child's deviations from the generally accepted patterns of English (i.e. the prevalent variety of English spoken …
Education For A Multi-Cultural Society, Millicent E. Poole
Education For A Multi-Cultural Society, Millicent E. Poole
Australian Journal of Teacher Education
I explore three avenues in this paper. The fIrst relates to Australian society generally. Is Australia a multi-cultural society and do Australians subscribe to education for a multi-cultural society as a priority goal in education? Secondly, if this goal is accepted, what are the educational Implications for a multi-cultural society? Thirdly, what strategies might educators use to bring about this goal?
Our Multicultural Future And The School, John Sherwood (Ed.)
Our Multicultural Future And The School, John Sherwood (Ed.)
Research outputs pre 2011
It is only in the last four or five years that an observable effort has been made to extend the growing awareness within the community that Australia's population is clearly multicultural in composition. Despite this, most of the political, economic and social structures and organisations in the community do not adequately reflect or cater for the variety of people of different ethnic origins and identities.
While this increasing awareness in individuals is encouraging, it has been evident that the focus of discussions, conferences and gatherings to date, in Western Australia at least, has been rather narrow. Some have concentrated on …