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A Professional Development Course in Australian Indigenous ESL Teaching

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  22 July 2015

Kim Tan*
Affiliation:
Darwin, Northern Territory
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Extract

The impetus for developing this course came from a consultancy agreement with the Northern Territory Department of Education in 1998 to develop a program to address the special needs of teachers in Aboriginal community schools.

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Section A: Teaching and Learning
Copyright
Copyright © Cambridge University Press 2000

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