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New TESOL in Context Journal volume available now!
Check out our latest issue: Collaboration, training and funding for the professional development of teachers of EAL/D students New TESOL in Context Journal volume available now! Check out our latest issue: Collaboration, training and funding for the professional...
Applications for this year’s Penny McKay Award now open
Applications for this year’s Penny McKay Award are now open and will close on 31 October, 2023. If you have written or supervised an outstanding doctoral thesis awarded in 2022, please consider making/supporting an application for this award. To be eligible for...
Newsletter February 2023
The newest edition of the ATESOL ACT Newsletter is hot off the press! February 2023 newsletter
NEWSLETTER – January 2023
The newest edition of the ATESOL ACT Newsletter is hot off the press! ATESOL-ACT-January-2023-newsletter
AMEP outcomes-based payment will not proceed
The Department of Home Affairs has announced that it will not be proceeding with the proposed outcomes-based payment system. The announcement was made in November 2022 in the context of a request for feedback on future settings for the AMEP. Click here for the link:...
AMEP launches new on-line resources
A suite of newly developed resources funded by the Department of Home Affairs and aligned to the EAL Framework. These are free and open to anyone. You can find links to the new resources here on our ESOL RESOURCES page.
NEWSLETTER – December 2022
The newest edition of the ATESOL ACT Newsletter is hot off the press! Click here to download, read, and share around!
NEWSLETTER – August 2022
The newest edition of the ATESOL ACT Newsletter is hot off the press! Click here to download, read, and share around!
Invitation for teachers of EAL/D in Australian schools to contribute to a survey study
You are invited to participate in a survey on privatisation practices (business-like activities) and commercial activities (buying/selling education goods) in the delivery of EAL/D in schools across Australia. This research project is being run by Dr Sue Creagh and...
ACTA National EAL/D Roadmap for Schools
ACTA representatives are holding meetings with Ministers, politicians and various organisations to promote the recently launched EAL/D Schools Roadmap. For an infographic you can download for notice boards and sending to colleagues (kindly prepared for us by our...
ATESOL ACT Life Membership
2021: Lesley Cioccarelli and Jennifer Mayers Jennifer has been a member of ATESOL ACT for over 25 years and served as president, treasurer and committee member during that time. She has been involved in the TESOL field from her first posting to a preschool in Post...
NEWSLETTER – July 2022
The newest edition of the ATESOL ACT Newsletter is hot off the press! Click here to download, read, and share around!
ACTA calls for EAL/D education to be included in the next National Schools Reform Agreement
ACTA forwarded a submission to the Productivity Commission’s review of the National School Reform Agreement arguing that EAL/D learners be recognised as a priority equity cohort in the 2024 National Schools Reform Agreement and be included in the National Measurement...
Ongoing Opportunity: Foundation for Learning and Literature Symposium 2022
In 2022, the Foundation for Learning and Literacy will convene a symposium featuring organisations whose primary work is with children and young people, literacy and drama. The 2022 Literature Symposium will involve a series of free online presentations from a range...
Update to the Foundation Skills Framework Review
The ACER team would like thank everyone who took part in the consultation phase of the Foundation Skills Frameworks review project. The richness and diversity of feedback – provided through discussion forums, focus groups, interviews and the online survey – are a...
SBS reports on Fears over new funding model for Australia’s migrant English program
SBS TV and on-line have reported on concerns about the proposed new funding model for the AMEP. The reports include comments by Dr Helen Moore, ACTA Vice-President. To see the on-line report, click here: Fears over new funding model for Australia’...
Media release: ACTA calls for national reform and revitalisation of EAL/D in schools
ACTA National Roadmap for English as an Additional Language or Dialect (EAL/D) Education in Schools ACTA has launched its National Roadmap for English as an Additional Language or Dialect (EAL/D) Education in Schools, calling for national ‘build back better’ reform of...
Media release: Adult literacy inquiry calls for new national strategy.
The following Media Release was issued on Tuesday, 22 March 2022 by the Parliament of Australia. Adult literacy inquiry calls for new national strategy. The House Employment, Education and Training Committee has today presented the report of its
Development of Adult Migrant English Program (AMEP) Digital Literacies Framework and Guide
The Department of Home Affairs is pleased to announce an initiative to support the development of digital literacies in the AMEP. The Adult EAL sector is well positioned to equip adult language learners with digital literacies required for settlement and finding...
Join us in a forum: Foundation Skills Frameworks Review Project
The discovery phase of the ACER review of the Australian Core Skills Framework (ACSF) and the Digital Literacy Skills Framework (DLSF) is now complete. The next project phase will launch with an online survey and two online discussion forums. Online survey...