@inbook{29f605e257b541d28e21b313f45d733d,
title = "Australian language policy and the design of a national curriculum for languages",
abstract = "Australia{\textquoteright}s efforts at valuing its multilingualism through the development of national language policy have been acclaimed by international scholars on bilingualism, but all is not well with Australia{\textquoteright}s state as a multilingual society. A significant proportion of the population is bi- or multilingual, but this is not the norm, which is particularly obvious in the education sector where Australia-wide less than 15\% of students in year 12, the final year of schooling, take a language other than English. In 2011, a national language curriculum Shape of the Australian Curriculum: Languages was drafted, which is discussed in this contribution against the background of Australian language policy and with a particular focus on the distinction between different pathways of language learning.",
author = "Martina M{\"o}llering",
year = "2014",
doi = "10.1075/hsld.3",
language = "English",
isbn = "9789027214164",
series = "Hamburg Studies on Linguistic Diversity (HSLD)",
publisher = "John Benjamins Publishing Company",
pages = "55--74",
editor = "Patrick Grommes and Adelheid Hu",
booktitle = "Plurilingual education",
address = "Netherlands",
edition = "1st",
}