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Melbourne Asia Review is an initiative of the Asia Institute. Any inquiries about Melbourne Asia Review should be directed to the Managing Editor, Cathy Harper.

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The importance of fitting society and culture into Australian university language courses

  • Dr Jonathan Benney,

Language learning should facilitate cultural understanding and this requires contentious aspects of culture to be examined.

What motivates students to study Chinese at Australian universities and did this change during the COVID-19 pandemic?

  • Tracy Huahua Hong & Dr Hui Huang ,

Chinese is classified as one of Australia’s most important strategic Asian languages, but currently students’ motivations are not properly considered.

Queering Hindi as a foreign language

  • Dr Ian Woolford (he/him/करता),

Hindi, like any language, is capable of describing the whole diversity of human experience, and the classroom is the perfect space to affirm this.

Beyond ‘Asian’ language skills: Indonesian learning for a more just and equitable society

  • Dr Michelle Kohler,

In the century ahead, we will need ‘practical’ solutions, but underlying this is our capacity to work with one another, to share and create knowledge and adapt to new ways of being.

Towards a global approach to teaching Arabic in Australian universities

  • Tarek Makhlouf & Dr Abdul Samad Abdullah,

Arabic language teaching in Australia should focus more on the culture and global impact of Arabic than its utilitarian value.