- Ideastomake Canberra a multilingual city
- A chance to promote languages at the Multicultural Festival, 19 February 2017
- Mother Tongue: Multilingual Poetry at the Canberra Multicultural Fringe 18 February 2017
- Language programs at Canberra schools in the news
- http://www.canberratimes.com.au/act-news/act-preschools-trial-successful-language-program-20161117-gsrhqx.html
- http://hercanberra.com.au/cpcity/telopea-park-school-versailles-audio/
- More opportunities to learn more languages on campus and/or online through the ANU in 2017
- New Canberra Academy of Languages
- Balai Bahasa Indonesia (ACT)
- Upcoming events and courses at the Alliance Française de Canberra
- Nominate an outstanding language teacher in Australia for the 2017Patji-Dawes Award
Languages of the Pacific and indigenous Australia at the Canberra Museum and Gallery
- Be: longing, new online publication launched in Canberra
- 2017 National NAIDOC Theme -Our Languages Matter
- Articles and links that may be of Interest:
- Why is bilingual education ‘good’ for rich kids but ‘bad’ for poor, immigrant students?https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/answer-sheet/wp/2014/10/24/why-is-bilingual-education-good-for-rich-kids-but-bad-for-poor-immigrant-students/
- Time travelling to the mother tongue http://www.cam.ac.uk/research/features/time-travelling-to-the-mother-tongue
- Reviving Indigenous languages – not as easy as it seems. https://theconversation.com/reviving-indigenous-languages-not-as-easy-as-it-seems-68977
- Is bilingualism really an advantage?http://www.newyorker.com/science/maria-konnikova/bilingual-advantage-aging-brain
- How using a foreign language changes the decisions people make. https://news.uchicago.edu/article/2016/11/18/research-examines-impact-foreign-language-risk-perception-moral-judgment
- Statement of the role of language learning in valuing diversity and promoting unity
- https://www.actfl.org/news/position-statements/statement-the-role-language-learning-valuing-diversity-and-promoting-unity
- ‘This is what we need to do to boost languages learning in Australian schools’ http://www.aare.edu.au/blog/?p=1872