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原帖由 czsu 于 2011-3-13 22:26 发表 
目前全世界都在汉语热,但是,澳大利亚在这方面似乎不太积极。我的儿子在悉尼James Ruse 上学。那是一家比较好的公立学校。但是,教授的四种外语中却没有汉语。我在家长会上问过这个问题。回答是,该校录取的华裔学生实在太 ...
我倒是觉得澳洲越来越认识到作为第二语言中文的重要性了。新的教纲已经彻底颠覆了澳洲基础教育中第二语言的传统排序,中文和意大利语即将成为主流。。。
Chinese, Italian lead new curriculum
Jewel Topsfield
February 1, 2011 - 3:00AM
EVERY student will be required to study a second language for at least 300 hours before year 7, with Chinese and Italian the first to be taught under the national curriculum.
The draft shape of the national curriculum for languages, to be released today, says curriculums for 11 foreign languages will be developed to be taught in schools.
The curriculum has been criticised for failing to include classical languages, such as Latin, or the Australian sign language Auslan.
The first national language curriculums to be developed will be Chinese and Italian - chosen because they cater for the greatest range of students - and a framework for teaching Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander languages.
This will be followed by Indonesian, Japanese and Korean, which are national priorities, French and German, which are among the most commonly taught languages in schools, and Spanish, a language of global importance.
Finally, a national curriculum will be developed for Arabic, Modern Greek and Vietnamese, the most commonly spoken languages at home.
Any language not included in the national curriculum will continue to be taught under existing state arrangements, according to the draft paper by the Australian Curriculum, Assessment and Reporting Authority.
It says that despite continuing policy discussion and research, the uptake of languages remains ''fragile at all phases of schooling'', with only 14.5 per cent of students studying a second language in year 12.
All students will learn languages in primary and secondary school under the national curriculum. However, it will not mandate what year students should begin studying a second language, leaving it to primary schools to decide.
The paper says 300 to 400 hours should be spent studying a language between prep and year 6, 130 to 160 hours in years 7 and 8, 130 to 160 hours in years 9 and 10 and a further 200 to 240 hours in years 11 and 12.
The president of the Modern Language Teachers' Association of Victoria, Andrew Ferguson, said that while the group was pleased to see the range of languages for which curriculums will be developed, it was ''most disturbed'' classical languages and Auslan had been excluded.
''This is a serious oversight on the part of ACARA and an insult to the deaf community and teachers of Auslan and classical languages,'' he said.
Mr Ferguson said it was also disappointing the curriculums were based on 300 to 400 hours in primary school, rather than the current Victorian recommendation of 100 hours a year.
Dr Joe Lo Bianco, a professor of language and literacy education at Melbourne University, said there was a crisis in language learning, despite the federal government's $62 million plan for 12 per cent of year 12 students to be fluent in one of four priority languages - Japanese, Mandarin, Korean and Indonesian - by 2020. ''We haven't done very well despite the large public investments,'' Dr Lo Bianco said.
He said that while the languages national curriculum would be a big improvement, students would need to study a lot more than the prescribed hours to attain fluency.
This story was found at: http://www.smh.com.au/national/education/chinese-italian-lead-new-curriculum-20110131-1ab54.html |
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