Second language spoken at home brings success in education.

Students attend a class at Alexandria Park Community School in Sydney

Queensland students have performed well in most NAPLAN catagories, but have fallen short in writing. (AAP) Source: AAP

We talked with teacher Nazmiye Iyidilli on Naplan results which shows children from migrant families have outperformed native English speakers in the spelling results collected in the National Assessment Program - Literacy and Numeracy.


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