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State / Territory MLTA Directory

ACT MLTA ( ACT ) Inc ., GPO Box 989 , Canberra ACT 2601

NSW MLTA NSW Inc ., C / - PTC , PO Box 121 Leichhardt NSW 2040

NT LTANT , PO Box 42446 , Casuarina NT 0811

QLD MLTAQ Inc ., PO Box 3727 , South Brisbane BC 4101

SA MLTASA Inc ., GPO Box 622 Adelaida SA 5001

TAS MLTAT of Tasmania , C / - PTC , PO Box 20U , Upper Burnie , Tas . 7320

VIC MLTAV Inc ., Statewide Resources Centre , 150 Palmerston Street , Carlton Vic . 3053

WA MLTAWA Inc ., PO Box 605 , Subiaco WA 6008

Financial members of Australian State and Territory MLTAs receive Babel automatically as part of their membership . Applications for membership of any State or Territory Modern Language Teachers Association should be forwarded to the appropriate association at the address indicated above .

Subscription Rates

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Institutions

Individuals $ 95.00 $ 74.00

Overseas ( air mail ) $ 100.00 $ 80.00

Requests for subscriptions should be directed to subscriptions @ afmlta . asn . au

Payments can be made electronically or via cheque ( in Australian dollars ) payable to AFMLTA Inc .

Back copies

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Guidelines for Contributors

Babel publishes general and research articles , reviews , and reports about the teaching and learning of languages , and language policy at primary , secondary , and tertiary level . Articles should normally be between 2000 and 5000 words . Reports and reviews are more likely to be between 1000 and 2000 words . Microsoft Word format is preferred (. doc /. docx ) or Rich Text Format (. rtf ). Authors should include their name , title , work location , postal and e-mail addresses , and fax and telephone numbers on a separate cover sheet . As all contributions are anonymously peer reviewed , authors should remove any identifying information from their text ( e . g . name in footers and headers ) and , if necessary , refer to themselves in the Reference list only as Author . In general , submissions will include an Abstract of between 150-200 words and a list of key word descriptors .

It is the responsibility of contributors to consult our stylesheet and follow formatting and referencing requirements before submitting their work ( visit www . afmlta . asn . au , go to the Journal tab ).

Pictures , graphics , graphs or other forms of illustrations must be of good quality and submitted separately as jpeg files . They should be no larger than A4-size .

Electronic copies of contributions are sent to the Editor at : editor @ afmlta . asn . au

Articles

‘ Conversing ’ in French : the effect of high-stakes environments on oral task performance

Writing strategies of children in a Macedonian- English bilingual program in Victoria

Reducing teaching hours in tertiary Japanese : a case study

Reducing the gap between second language researchers and teachers : lessons learned

Volume 47 Number 2