Commonwealth Languages Part of the CAQA group

Language teaching

Languages, taught for use

Language teaching built around what a learner needs to do in the language, rather than around the order a textbook happens to use.

IWhat we do

Three things, done properly.

i

Task based

Teaching organised around what the learner needs to do, not around a textbook sequence.

ii

Community languages

Languages spoken in Australian communities, taught for real use with family and clients.

iii

Assessment

Placement and progress assessment against recognised proficiency scales.

IIWhat goes wrong

The two failures we see most.

We publish these because most of the value in hiring anyone is knowing which mistakes are common, and that knowledge is not worth hiding.

Grammar before use

Sequencing by grammatical complexity delays useful communication for months, and most learners leave before it arrives.

Placement by convenience

Putting learners into whichever class has space undermines every subsequent progression judgement.

IIIHow we work

We tell you what we find.

Including when the answer is that you do not need what you came to ask for. Anyone who never says that is not giving you information, they are giving you an invoice.

Scope

Where something needs a legal opinion, a financial audit or a clinical judgement, we will say so and stop rather than improvise past the edge of what we do.

Start a conversation.

Tell us the situation rather than the service you think you need. We would rather start from your problem.