Melbourne Asia Review is a research-based publication of the Asia Institute, University of Melbourne.
Language learning should facilitate cultural understanding and this requires contentious aspects of culture to be examined.
Hindi, like any language, is capable of describing the whole diversity of human experience, and the classroom is the perfect space to affirm this.
Arabic language teaching in Australia should focus more on the culture and global impact of Arabic than its utilitarian value.
The common promotional discourses of ‘employability’ and ‘international trade’ related to Japanese language learning do not reflect learners’ motivations.
Enrollments in Chinese Honours programs have fallen off a cliff in the past ten years or so.
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