Issues
Advocacy in TESOL is a central ACTA objective. Our ACTA Issues Page pages thus aim to play a pivotal role in outlining these issues and the various ways you can engage and deal with them.
Issues discussed here are both Federal and State matters. Advocacy for the needs of ESL learners and teachers in the Federal arena is a matter of agreement across the State Associations, and usually (but not always) takes place through the ACTA Council.
State advocacy issues will in some cases be addressed differently according to the relationships between the State ESL associations and its State government and education systems.
ACTA presents the matters here for information sharing across State associations. Members are encouraged to contact their State association for details of advocacy actions planned and underway in their particular State.
A d v o c a c y I n f o r m a t i o n
National Curriculum - ACTA's position and response to the development of a 'curriculum for all'
Citizenship Test
- Citizenship test response to the DIMA paper on Citizenship
testing. Click here
to
read the response paper. - ACTA's media release regarding the proposed citizenship test.
Funding
- ACTA's letter to the Hon. Julia Gillard concerning Special Purpose Payment funding.
M u l t i c u l t u r a l i s m
TESOL International's position statement on ESL
Past Projects - ESL provision, funding and staffing issues etc.