Investigators: Cate Taylor, Francis Mitrou, Ha Nguyen, Stephen Zubrick
External collaborators: Professor Luke Connelly (University of Queensland), Dr Huong Le (The University of Western Australia)
This project will provide important policy directions for design of language educational programs in Australian schools, developing a multi-cultural society, multi-lingual workforce, sourcing of immigrants from different language backgrounds and English abilities in order to obtain the best developmental outcomes of the next Australian generations. The outcomes will be useful to parents of Australian-born children in their decision to support children to learn other languages. It also assists non-English speaking immigrant families in their decision to whether to preserve languages of the parents' countries of origin for their children while growing up in Australia. This project seeks to understand human capital accumulation in children and adolescents with respect to bilingualism.