Languages Other Than English (LOTE)
Loddon Mallee Region LOTE Film Festival 2008
Student Film Festival
Students are invited to produce a short movie in the LOTE they are learning for the Loddon Mallee Region LOTE Film Festival 2008.
Film Festival Theme – WATER
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Water is life in many languages. Tell stories about its many states, sources, uses, magic, what it means for you, for different cultures and for life on this planet
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Submitted entries should reflect the theme in the film. This may be in the form of different cultural responses to water, creative stories about water, issues associated with water, an integrated topic linking to other domains, etc.
LOTE Film Festival Submissions are due no later than Wednesday 24 September, 2008.
Screening of finalist entries will be held on Thursday 30 October, 2008 at the Bendigo Cinemas.
Poster | Categories | Prizes | Entry Form and Terms and Conditions of Entry
For more information email Marlene Dingle or phone (+61 3) 5440 3124.
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2008, International Year of Languages
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Languages Matter! The UN International Year of Languages is a time to celebrate multilingualism and the wonderful diversity that comes from describing our world in so many different ways; a time to promote all languages. Every language is a unique way of describing and seeing the world.
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Message from Mr Matsuura, Director-General of UNESCO on the celebration of 2008, International Year of Languages.
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The UNESCO Courier – This year’s first issue is devoted to languages.
Making a World of Difference LOTE DVD
The benefits of learning LOTE-
"To have another language is to possess a second soul" Charlemagne
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"Language shapes the way we think, and determines what we can think about." Benjamin Lee Whorf
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Available Now! DVD Order Form
Price: $15.00
Contents of the DVD:
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Languages in Schools and the Exchange Experience
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Languages at University
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Languages in the Workplace
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Learning Bilingually
This DVD contains interviews with students learning languages at school and university, plus comments from people reflecting on the impact knowing another language has had on their career and life.
Please complete the order form and email or fax to Katie Scoble (+61 3) 5442 5321.
Loddon Mallee Region LOTE Contact
For further information contact the regions LOTE Project Officer.
The role of the Regional LOTE project officer is to assist schools and teachers with effective provision of Languages other than English by:
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promoting the benefits of learning languages
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facilitating the operation of LOTE specific teacher networks
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organising professional learning programs
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advising schools with the logistics of establishing a quality LOTE program
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assisting with teacher supply issues.
Communication
If you wish to be included in the regional LOTE teacher email list please email Marlene Dingle.
Languages, Literacy and Intercultural Understanding
Learning languages contribute to essential skills needed in a globalised world, to the development of better literacy and intercultural skills.
"What languages are doing is providing a contrast, alternative ways to organise the world, to perceive reality" and in learning a LOTE children learn to deal with something that is other than themselves.
It is through learning other languages that children reflect on language as a system much earlier and transfer what they are learning about language to their first language. They develop metalinguistics awareness and skills to understand languages as systems of making meaning.
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"The cultural maps we hold in our minds to make sense of the world are tangible maps which we often mistake as immutable (unchangeable) truths.
To dislodge the apparent immutability of our cultural interpretations of the world requires considerable effort. It requires educating the mind to identify cultural boundaries within which we operate and it requires the willingness to venture into the foreign and to potentially be changed by it."
Source: Crozet, C., Liddicoat, A., & Lo Bianco, J. 1999, ‘Intercultural competence: From language policy to language education’. In J. Lo Bianco, A. Liddicoat & C. Crozet (eds), Striving for the third place: Intercultural competence through language education, Melbourne: Language Australia, page 4.
More Why Learning Languages is Essential.pdf
LOTE Sites in Other Regions
Northern Metropolitan Region
Eastern Metropolitan Region
Other Loddon Mallee Region LOTE pages:
Assessment & Reporting | Cultural Diversity | Grants & Funding | Languages | Professional Development | Promoting Languages | Resources
