Bringing the World Home: Languages and Area Studies in Australian Universities

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  • Peter Morgan

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.30722/anzjes.vol14.iss3.17106

Abstract

If Australia is to remain a literate citizen of this rapidly changing world we need to understand not just the anglophone West and the large-scale bloc politics of world regions but also the deeper forces that drive nations and regions. Language is essential to understanding of any given nation or region. But what do we find in our university language departments? Dwindling enrolments, dying courses, and frustrated highly qualified academic staff teaching beginners language courses. In this article I explore the connections between languages and area studies at our universities with a view to suggesting alternatives in the ways in which we present languages and their populations to our students.

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2022-12-31

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