LANGUAGE AUSTRALIA is a not-for-profit company with a mission to foster an articulate, literate and multicultural Australia. It is internationally recognised for the quality of its training, research, publications and policy advice in the areas of language, literacy and numeracy education, multicultural and cross-cultural relations, complemented by its role as a commercial publisher of educational and research books.
LANGUAGE AUSTRALIA provides:
- policy and planning on language, literacy and numeracy programs both nationally and internationally;
- training and professional development for educators;
- research in the areas of language, including ESL, LOTE, Indigenous education, literacy and numeracy as well as cross-cultural issues;
- a publishing house for teacher relevant and classroom appropriate materials and research publications;
- databases, library and clearinghouse facilities for relevant studies materials;
- advisory and consultancy services for Australian and international governments, unions, business and the community;
- English competency testing services for overseas health professionals who wish to practise in Australia.