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COVID-19 underlines the importance of learning languages via emerging technologies
Language educators need to seriously take new technologies into account.
The necessity of teaching online during the COVID-19 pandemic could result in better Japanese language teaching
The online environment can’t replicate all aspects of classroom language instruction, but online education does have benefits.
Learning how to say ‘you’ in Indonesian: why it’s time to embrace its complexity
There is a seemingly simple aspect of Indonesian that eludes learners: how to say ‘you’ to an addressee.
Learning Asian languages is about much more than trade and employability and universities should convey this
Australian universities should play an important role in articulating the educational value of foreign language learning beyond the ‘employability’ discourse.
Australia needs to make languages compulsory
If Australia really wants to increase its literacy in Asian and other languages it needs to make language learning compulsory in Australian schools.