While SBS National Language Competition 2018 is on its way, starting from the 15th October 2018 to 18th November 2018, seniors migrant Australian are being recruited to help Australian high school students learning a second language.
"One in three of Australians were born overseas-the majority of whom originally from a non-English speaking country." However, according to recent report, less and less Australian high school students graduates enrolling for a second language courses due to spending more time in sports or other fields of interests and moving on to English speaking environments, while Australian university is looking into ideas how to attract more students to learn a second language and how to harness community resources like elders migrants from diverse backgrounds who speak different languages to help.
The most popular languages learnt and taught in Australia are Japanese, follow by Italian, Indonesian, French, German and Mandarin, however, Mandarin is the most spoken language behind English.
Even though many elder migrants feel happy with their daily routines and see the beauty of Australia, many still fell that their lives are meaningless due to unable to utilize their professional skills that could benefits Australian communities.
That situation changed when Manash University has recruited elder migrants who speak Chinese, Spanish, German to participate its research project that "conneting bilingual seniors with student language learners" in Australian's high school.
The result is very impressive and benefited both elder migrants as well as Australian secondary school students.
It make seniors migrants Australians feel "younger and fresh" according to Dr. Hui Huang who is the chief coordinator of the Chinese program at Monash University. It also made them feel inclusive and belong to Australia, while it helps students to learn authentic language usage with that particular language speakers so they can master that language better.
If you want to participate with SBS National Language Competition 2018 which will start from the 15th Oct 2018 to 18 Nov 2018 please check more detail here.#
More information:
1) You can check out SBS National Language Competition 2018 here: https://www.sbs.com.au/radio/article/2018/07/17/sbs-national-languages-competition-2018-faqs
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