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2008
AFTV Email Mailout List
Only AFTV members receive email mailouts. Renew your membership now!
2008
AFTV Membership Cards
If your membership card has not arrived, please notify Alison Daly immediately.
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Festivals,
Films & Theatre |
Competitions,
Workshops & Study Tours |
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Stage de
Besançon
January 5 to 23, 2009
Applications for grants from French language teachers in Australia are
invited for the "Stage de Besançon".
There are 10 places available.
Jointly funded by the Australian Federal Government and the French Embassy
in Canberra this three week program for secondary schools teachers at
the CLA of Besançon (the leading Training Institute for French as a foreign
language) will provide a wonderful opportunity for selected teachers to
greatly increase their language skills in French in a totally immersed
cultural & linguistic situation and develop classroom competencies through
exposure to a vast array of techniques and resources.
This very practical linguistic program in France, at virtually no cost
to the teacher, is designed, through the enhancement of professional teaching
skills it will provide, to benefit schools and students. This is why to
be eligible to apply teachers need to meet the following requirements:
a) have at least 50% of their teaching load in French and a commitment
by themselves and their school to continue in this situation for at least
the next two years.
b) Possess at least an intermediate skill level of oral and written French
Dateline for applications:
Applications must be received at the French Embassy AND at your State
Department of Education by 30 September 2008 Close Of Business
(Please refer to application for further detail).
See website for details
Download
PDF application file HERE
Please note that this PDF application file has been designed to be TYPED
on screen, then printed and signed. Handwritten application will not be
accepted.
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AFMLTA
Conference 2009 - Dialogue, Discourse, Diversity
Sydney, July 2009
Call for Papers
Deadline: Friday 29th August
Flyer
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FATFA Conference
2008- Approaches to the teaching of French
October 3rd - October 5th 2008
Queensland University of Technology
EARLY BIRD REGISTRATION RATES EXTENDED UNTIL THE
END OF AUGUST!
Chers collègues,
Voici quelques informations concernant le prochain colloque de la FATFA
(Federation of Associations of Teachers of French in Australia) qui aura
lieu à Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane, du 3 au 5 octobre.
Ce sera l'occasion de rencontrer vos collègues de plusieurs régions en
Australie, ainsi que de Calédonie. De nombreux exposants seront également
présents (éditeurs, voyagistes, Le Bouquet français, ambassades de France
et du Canada).
Comme vous le verrez sur le programme, disponible à cette adresse : http://www.fatfa08.bus.qut.edu.au/,
nous aurons aussi le plaisir d'accueillir Monsieur Christian Puren, professeur
émérite de l'université de Saint-Etienne, spécialiste de l'approche actionnelle
et de la didactique du français langue étrangère.
Le colloque d'octobre vous permettra d'en savoir plus sur la FIPF (Fédération
Internationale des Professeurs de Français) et la CAP (Commission Asie-Pacifique)
et ce qu'elles peuvent vous offrir en tant que membre d'une association
des professeurs de français en Australie.
Venez donc partager ces deux journées avec nous pour continuer à faire
vivre la francophonie en Australie.
Flyer
Flyer for Interstate Visitors
Registration Form
Credit Card Payment Form
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Cours
de baladodiffusion (Podcast)
Alliance Française de Melbourne
Samedi, le 23 août, de 10h00 à 13h00 pendant 5 semaines
Cost: $300 Concession: $270
Contact the Alliance Française on 9525 3463 or at http://www.afmelbourne.asn.au/enrolment.html
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AFTV
Language Refresher Course for French Teachers 2008
New Caledonia
24th Sept - 3rd Oct 2008
Apply by 9th May
Download
- Application Form
Download - Itinerary
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The
Manuel Gelman Scholarship For Teachers 2008
applications close Friday 10 October 2008
Flyer
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Online
2007 assessment report
The 2007 assessment report is on-line.
http://www.vcaa.vic.edu.au/vce/studies/lote/french/exams.html |
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Languages
Education in Australia
Languages Education in Australia
is published by the AUSTRALIAN COUNCIL OF STATE SCHOOL ORGANISATIONS (ACSSO),
the national voice of parents of children in Australia's public schools
and their school communities.
LANGUAGES EDUCATION IN AUSTRALIA
Volume Two
Number Four: 27 March 2008 |
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CARREFOURS
Your submissions for secondary and primary schools (activity sheets, ideas,
projects, ideas for how to work on grammar and vocabulary, fantastic resources)
are all more than welcome!
THEY ARE NEEDED.
READ MORE HERE!
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La La La
Performance - Darebin Festival
Those who attended the AFTV Conference at Melbourne University in
July will remember the wonderful performance by Australia's only French
Choir, La La La.
The group are currently seeking additional members, particularly bass
singers. See the flyer below for further information.
La La La will be performing together with Damask, a choir featuring medieval
songs, at the Darebin Festival on Wednesday 17th September.
La La La Flyer
Darebin Festival Flyer
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THE
GROCER’S SON
Release date is October 2 with previews from September 26
Screening at Rivoli, Classic and Nova.
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Melbourne
International Film Festival (MIFF)
Persopolis. (France/USA)
The MIFF 'Next Gen' Cinema for Young People is again proudly sponsored by
the MLTAV in 2008, offering a substantial discount on student ticket prices
for MLTAV member schools.
There are a few films in the 2008 'Next Gen' program that have not yet had
any MLTAV member school bookings placed against them. One of these films
is: Persopolis. (France/USA) The full program, details about this particular
film, as well as the booking form, can be found on the MLTAV
website, The MLTAV requests the assistance of the AFTV in promoting
bookings to this film to assist in the overall success of the program and
to maximize the benefits that have been made available to MLTAV member schools
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French
Music
The French Music Export Office and the new French TV channel "France 24"
have co-produced a 12 mn movie (in English with French subtitles), about
the musicians produced in France in 2007 who had a great success abroad
(Feist, Manu Chao, Carla Bruni, Air, Daft Punk, etc..)..
To discover this short movie, go to :
www.french-music.org/video < http://www.french-music.org/video>
To know more about the artists, visit the French Music Export Office at
:
www.french-music.org
and www.myspace.com/frenchmusicex
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2008
- International Year of Languages
Mother
Language Day 21 February was proclaimed the International Mother Language
Day by UNESCO on 17 November 1999. The date commemorates a tragic event
in 1952 when Bangla university students in East Pakistan were shot and killed
while protesting their right to speak in their mother language. International
Mother Language Day is observed yearly by UNESCO member states to promote
linguistic and cultural diversity and multilingualism. Nowhere in the world
has a greater reason for celebration than in Australia - the most successful
multicultural country in the world, whose astonishing linguistic inheritance
includes at least 60-70 of the 200 indigenous languages which developed
through some 50,000 years of cultural evolution. Plus successive generations
of new arrivals, who brought with them and established a further 200 languages
that are spoken in homes and communities across the country. International
Mother Language Day will also mark this year the start of the International
Year of Languages proclaimed by the United Nations General Assembly, which
has entrusted its coordination to UNESCO. "Far from being a field reserved
for analysis by specialists, languages lie at the heart of all social, economic
and cultural life. That is the meaning of the slogan launched by UNESCO
for the International Year of Languages: Languages matter!" said UNESCO's
Director-General Koïchiro Matsuura in his special message for International
Mother Language Day. What better day, then, for the Australian Council of
State School Organisations (ACSSO) to launch the Australian website for
the International Year of Languages 2008. This initiative reflects and responds
to the feedback, input and suggestions which we received in the thousands
of qualitative responses to our national Research, the findings of which
were reported in July 2007. The site aims to provide timely and actionable
information about news, resources, opinions, web links that may be of use
or interest to communities around Australia during the course of the year.
It can, however, be much more than that. We extend an open invitation to
every school, university, organisation and community to tell us about the
events and initiatives which you are planning for the International Year
of Languages. With contact details, so other keenly interested schools,
groups and organisations can get in touch with you, share information, maybe
work together to make the event even more successful! And then, when you
have set up and run these events and activities, send us a report, with
pictures, so we can publish that on the website also - forming a rich tapestry
in national celebration of Australia's unique multicultural and multilingual
heritage. A heritage that is alive and well today - and upon which we can
build for future benefit of every young Australian, each community, our
whole society and the prosperous future of our nation in an increasingly
globalised world.
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Do It - a project
by Hans Ulrich Obrist
Realised by the VCA Centre for
Ideas
With the support of the French Embassy in Australia
Alliance française Gallery
4 September - 3 October, 2008
Opening : Thursday 4 september from 6.30 to 8 pm
www.afmelbourne.asn.au
35 students from the Victorian College of the Arts’ Centre for Ideas and
the Central Academy of Fine Art Beijing, have developped work for the
latest “Do It” exhibition at the Alliance Francaise de Melbourne, on view
from 4 September to 3 October, 2008.
”Do It” began as a discussion between artists Christian Boltanski and
Bertrand Lavier, and writer Hans Ulrich Obrist, in 1993 at the Café
Select in Paris. Their discussion focused on the use of written instructions
to make works of art in an effort to observe the effects of translation.
The three were interested in how written instructions for artists could
function like musical scores, which, like music, go though countless variations
and interpretations each time they are performed. Since 1993, “Do It”
has grown in stages, springing up around the world in 45 museums and cultural
centres around Europe, the Americas, Asia and Australia. Artists and thinkers
from Louise Bourgeois, Yoko Ono and Thomas Hirschorn have written or drawn
instructions for artists to follow, which have been collected in a book
that is part manual, part cookbook, part do-it-yourself kit.
The “Do It” project in Melbourne is being developed in a special seminar
at VCA’s Centre for Ideas called “The World in the Artist,” coordinated
by Elizabeth Presa, Head of the Centre. This year, the emphasis will be
on instructions given by French artists and philosophers featured in the
“Do It” book. Adding another layer to the international flavor of the
project and its exploration the accumulation of translations, VCA students
will work collaboratively via the internet with students from Central
Academy of Fine Art Bejiing, China’s premiere art school.
”We began the seminar by focusing on the idea of translation,” Presa explains.
“We looked at what it means to translate from your native language into
another language such as French, or from Mandarin into French or English,
as well as what it means to translate language into an art form or across
media and across cultures.” To assist with the development of a conceptual
basis, the seminar explored Walter Benjamin’s seminal text “The Task of
the Translator” and Jacques Derrida’s “Les tours de Babel”.
Students will respond to instructions by a range of French artists and
philosophers, including Christian Boltanski, Louise Bourgeois, Annette
Messager and Bertrand Lavier.
Flyer
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Sylvie Christophe
Cultural and Cooperation Attaché
French Embassy in Australia
0400 990 166
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Matinée
du Français
Melbourne
Convention Centre
Sunday 31st August 2008, 9.30am- 12 noon,
Book by 18th July
Download
- Application Form
Download
- Map
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Almost
French Exchange Programs and Study Tours –
‘We believe that the best way to learn is to travel and immerse in the
culture’
Almost
French Flyer
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Des
sejours scolaires en Provence et Paris
Mesdames, Messieurs,
Nous organisons des sejours scolaires en Provence et Paris a destination
de classes (du primaire a l'universite) en provenance des 5 Continents
a toute periode de l’annee. Au programme, visite des hauts lieux Provencaux
: les gorges du Verdon, Avignon, les calanques, Marseille, Roussillon,
Gordes, le Lubéron, rencontre internationale etc...mais aussi sejours
a theme : sejour sportif, sejour sur le theme de l'eau etc... pour voir
quelques idees de sejours : www.collegiensdumonde.com ; nous organisons
egalement des sejours linguistiques en Provence melant cours de francais
et visites.
Sejours scolaires en Provence et Paris
Programme Linguistique
Les Hautes Terres de Provence
Sophie Bouilhaud
Maison de Pays
04250 La Motte du Caire
0033 492 68 40 39
infos@collegiensdumonde.com
www.collegiensdumonde.com
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VCE Practice
Exam
It is with great pleasure that the AFTV is able to offer a practice French
VCE exam for purchase.
Order
Form
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CD-ROM
available for Etude Approfondie
Topic: Le cinéma français
Download flyer
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Etude
Approfondie flyer
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NEW CALEDONIA
TRIP FOR YRS 9&10
Blackburn High school is looking for another school to join them in a
trip to New Caledonia . 8-day, 7-night tour with hotel accomodation and
some included excursions with GET educational tours. The possible dates
are from the 5th December onwards. Blackburn High School has 10 students
who are interested in participating.
Please contact Julia Beer
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