For Teachers: April 2007

The Indonesia Australia Language Foundation (IALF) provides a range of training and educational options to help achieve its aim to contribute to the "economic, social and cultural development in the region and to mutual respect and understanding between the people of Indonesia and neighbouring countries."

As well providing English language training to Indonesians and residents of other South East Asian countries, it also offers Indonesian language training to English speakers.

In particular, the Study Bahasa Indonesia in Bali program offers packages combining 40 hours of Indonesian language training with 20 hours of cultural studies introducing Indonesian, and particularly Balinese culture.

As described on the IALF website, key features of the program are:

  • stimulating and innovative approaches to teaching
  • small class size
  • interesting and varied range of cultural activities and excursions
  • the option of homestay accommodation with friendly families
  • reasonable fees

Six levels of courses from Beginner to Advanced follow "a theme-based syllabus with tasks designed to encourage you to use your newly-acquired language in real life communication. Grammar and vocabulary are taught as a means of facilitating communication rather than ends in themselves."

Courses of 11 days are currently scheduled for April, July, October and into January next year.

For more detail, including course prices, go to the Study Bahasa Indonesia in Bali program pages of the IALF website.


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This section of the Languages Education in Australia website focuses on teachers, both languages teachers and also teachers of other subjects who recognise that languages education will improve their teaching and maximise support for their students.

Perhaps you have students whose primary language is not - or not yet - English, and you want to engage with them and support them to retain their cultural heritage in a classroom setting.

Maybe you are a teacher of a language other than English and you want to help your school as a whole understand why and how the principles of language education can and should be applied beyond the walls of the LOTE classroom.

Or maybe you recognise that Australia's future is bilingual, and you want to provide your students with an enriched understanding of their place in the world.

We aim to provide reference points on a monthly basis to help you act on the understanding that language education is more than a peripheral learning topic, it is essential to a complete education.

Submissions for inclusion are most welcome.