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Melbourne Asia Review is a research-based publication of the Asia Institute, University of Melbourne.
Towards a global approach to teaching Arabic in Australian universities
Arabic language teaching in Australia should focus more on the culture and global impact of Arabic than its utilitarian value.
What motivates Japanese language learners in Australia and beyond?
The common promotional discourses of ‘employability’ and ‘international trade’ related to Japanese language learning do not reflect learners’ motivations.
How well does Australia know China?
Enrollments in Chinese Honours programs have fallen off a cliff in the past ten years or so.
INTRODUCTION: The contemporary challenges facing plurilingual societies
The power structures needed to create and enforce common systems of communication can simultaneously disadvantage others.
Learning to speak each other’s languages, again
Understanding each other’s languages and cultures will help overcome the vulnerabilities in Australia’s multiculturalism and its engagement with Asia exposed by COVID-19.