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Peak TESOL organisation says bilingual must stay
Wed, Jul 01 2009


The issue of bilingual education is considered so important, the Australian Council of TESOL Associations says it will begin lobbying with Aboriginal organisations to reverse this policy.

TESOL means - teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages.

The Council says governments are not adequately addressing the education needs of Aboriginal children for whom English is a second or third language.

Indigenous Education spokesman Adriano Truscott has told Michelle Lovegrove, the Northern Territory and the Federal Governments are also ignoring a national pledge given when endorsing the UN Declaration of the Rights of Indigenous Peoples.

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