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Next events and current news

For updates as they become available, see Events and News pages.

• MLTA 2024 Teachmeet will be held from 5 pm to 6 pm at the Ainslie Football Club on Friday 8 November – see details on the Events page.
• A panel discussion on raising children in more than one language will be held with ANU Centre for European Studies, ACTBEA and ANU School of Culture History and Language on Thursday 19 September 2024, from 5:30 pm to 6:30 pm – see the Events page.

Role and activities

The role of the MLTA is to promote language learning in the ACT by providing a voice for language teachers and to facilitate professional dialogue among ACT colleagues and with colleagues in other jurisdictions.

The MLTA supports members through:

• Information in Contact, our ACT e-newsletter for language teachers, made available to members via email and the website each semester
• Association information, news items and events listings published through our website
• Scholarship opportunities such as the FIPLV scholarship, the Fiona Arthur Language Teaching Award and the AFMLTA International Language Conference Scholarship
• Language Professional Learning programs, dinners and annual conference
• Subscription to the MLTA email list which provides members with up-to-date information on events
• Membership of the Australian Federation of Modern Language Teachers Associations Inc (AFMLTA) which includes subscription to the refereed journal Babel, published three times per year
• Participation in national programs and activities, such as workshops conducted by AFMLTA on Australian Curriculum: Languages and the AC Achievement Standards
• Affiliation to the international association, the Fédération des Professeurs de Langues Vivantes (FIPLV)
• Collaboration with national institutions such as the National Gallery of Australia on initiatives for languages teaching and learning.

For more information, see the MLTA ACT Constitution (updated 2022) and the Events and News pages.

Office Bearers 2024

Roles and responsibilities of MLTA office-bearers are outlined in the attachment. MLTA executive and committee members are listed below. To contact the committee or to a member of MLTA executive, please email mlta.act.inc@gmail.com.

Role	Name
Executive President	Prudence Roveta
Executive Vice-President	Jo Chilver
Executive Treasurer	Lena Britton
Executive Secretary	Mei Turnip
Publications Editor	Myriam Davies
Website Manager	Frank Keighley
Public Officer	Annemarie Power
Committee member	Nicola Barkley
Committee member	Margo Smith
Committee member	Cathy Marot
Committee member	Laurie Kahoul

Publications

The latest edition of Contact is available via the link below.
Contact Semester 1 2024 (July)
Contact Semester 2 2023 (December)
Contact Semester 1 2023 (June)
Contact Semester 2 2022 (December)
Contact Semester 1 2022 (July)
Contact 2021 (December)
Contact Semester 2 2020 (December)
Contact Semester 1 2020 (July)
Contact Semester 2 2019 (December)
Contact Semester 1 2019 (July)
Contact Semester 2 2018 (December)
Contact Semester 1 2018 (September)
Contact December 2017
Contact June 2017
Contact December 2016
Contact July 2016
Contact December 2015
Contact July 2015
Contact December 2014
Contact July 2014
Contact December 2013
Contact December 2012
Contact May 2012
Contact November 2011
Contact May 2011
Contact December 2010
Contact August 2010
Contact April 2010
Professional Standards Stream C Registration Form
Professional Standards Information Stream C
Professional Standards Phase 2 Information
Canberra Languages Forum Update April 2010
Plus change Abstract
Language Adventures Poster
Report on launch of Draft National Professional Standards for Teachers (added 29 April 2010)

Membership

Teachers of languages in Canberra and the ACT region are invited to become members or renew membership for 2024. All new memberships and membership renewals will be completed online. For individual memberships please use this link with Trybooking. You can elect to have your school invoiced or be personally invoiced for your membership through the Trybooking link. For more details, please see the email to members from MLTA ACT.

Membership of MLTA ACT provides the benefits of newsletters, events, affiliation to the Australian Federation of Modern Language Teachers' Associations, (AFMLTA), including a subscription to the national language teachers' journal, Babel, as well as FIPLV (see "Role and activities" above).

Contact details for MLTA ACT

Please note the new postal address below, as of 27 February 2024 Modern Language Teachers' Association of the ACT
PO Box 277
Belconnen ACT 2616

URL: https://www.mltaact.asn.au/
Email: mlta.act.inc@gmail.com

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