Amanda Pentti

@SkyNewsAust Where are Marina’s pants?

@QldPolice Have seen so many unregistered motorcycles on the road lately, many riders without helmets. The last one was last week less than 500 metres from Browns Stains police station.

Officers from the Forensic Crash Unit (FCU) are appealing for public assistance following their investigations into a hit-and-run crash involving an unregistered trail bike and a pedestrian at Loganlea on February 18, 2025. mypolice.page.link/FJky

@QldPolice struck or stuck?! So sad either way.

The Forensic Crash Unit is appealing for public assistance following a serious traffic crash where a rock stuck a driver in Glenwood yesterday. mypolice.qld.gov.au/news/2025/02/0…

@pasi_sahlberg - we need to include languages in this conversation about broadening student learning beyond literacy and numeracy for global competence! Finland does this so well. #DEi2024

#afmlta23 McPake shares the Scotland context ⁦@MLTAQld⁩ ⁦@MLTAV⁩ ⁦@MLTANSW⁩ ⁦@MLTAWA⁩ ⁦@MLTAACT⁩ ⁦@_NZALT⁩ ⁦@LCNAU⁩

#afmlta23 keynote begins with Joanna McPake, Reader in Education, University of Strathclyde, about languages education policy in Scotland ⁦@MLTAQld⁩ ⁦@MLTAV⁩ ⁦@MLTANSW⁩ ⁦@MLTAWA⁩ ⁦@MLTAACT⁩ ⁦@_NZALT⁩ ⁦@LCNAU⁩

#afmlta23 has begun! President Gillian Cordy welcomes delegates

Australian Children's Television Foundation have languages versions of their TV series available in their shop, with more to be made available shortly: actf.com.au/news/view/1811…

Axing protection for national strategic languages is no way to build ties with Asia via @TC_Africa theconversation.com/axing-protecti…

@hamishcurry Find safe ways of connecting students on tech platforms so that they can collaborate online ... only problem is equity issues with access to devices and internet.

I sense that for many schools, their international partnerships are entering an 'ice age' where relations & activities are being put on hold for COVID. What will be the impact of this and what will they do in the meantime?

Is it possible to set up a PowerPoint slide to show students while they wait in the lobby in Microsoft teams? Please retweet!

An interesting article on why #language #learning has increased during the #pandemic despite being in a closed world? bbc.com/worklife/artic… via @BBC_Worklife

Three-day lockdown imposed on Greater Brisbane to stop spread of mutant COVID strain abc.net.au/news/2021-01-0…

Greater Brisbane will go into a hard three-day lockdown after one local case of COVID was recorded on Thursday. 7news.com.au/news/qld/great…

How very sad for the people of Tasmania that the potential pipeline of languages teachers and opportunities for students to pursue their languages learning into university will now need to come from/happen on mainland Australia. dailytelegraph.com.au/news/national/… via @dailytelegraph

Good question!

Looks like a lot of learning and fun! @RebeccaGlynn3

Excellent point @gregwhitby

Make sure you register for this event! Joe’s recorded talk and the Online Q&A Forum will be captioned

Free ALAA event Prof. Emeritus Joe Lo Bianco: What kind of political activity is applied linguistics? What kind of political community are applied linguists? What are the language problems we aim to solve?@MLTAACT @MLTAV @MLTASA @MLTAWA @MLTAQld @MLTANSW @_NZALT @FIPLV @LCNAU