This document reports on the ‘Review of Languages Retention from the Middle Years to the Senior Years of Schooling’ undertaken for the South Australian Department for Education and Child Development by a team of researchers at the Research Centre for Languages and Cultures at the University of South Australia.

The First Language Maintenance and Development (FLMD) program has been in place in the Department for Education and Child Development (DECD) since 1985 as an initiative which was part of the implementation of two language policy reports: Voices for the future (Languages Policy Working Party, 1983) and Education for a cultural democracy (Taskforce to Investigate...

This project is an evaluation of Queensland’s immersion education programs for languages in Queensland schools. This evaluation is being undertaken to ensure that maximum benefit and optimum learning outcomes are achieved from the available funding. The aim of the evaluation is to allow justified decisions to be made about the most appropriate use of available...