Over the past two days I have worked with colleagues from Charles Sturt University, Queensland University of Technology, and Monash University. We all met in Albury as part of the Collaborative Research Network in Early Years Education to analyse data from the Longitudinal Study of Australian Children. LSAC has collected 4 waves of data from 10,000 Australian children, so contains a wealth of information to help us understand more about Australia's children. My focus over the two days was to work with Sarah Verdon, Sue Walker, Donna Berthelsen and Linda Harrison (primarily) to consider the extent and impact of speaking languages other than English. For example, we found that there was a significant difference between the number of children who spoke a language other than English at 2 to 3 years of age, compared with 4 to 5 years of age. We will continue to work on these data in the coming weeks and hopefully submit papers to be considered for publication. It was a very productive and collaborative two days.
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| Members of the Early Years Education Collaborative Research Network in Albury |
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Sue Walker, Donna Berthelsen and Sharynne
beside the Murray River - the border between NSW and Victoria |
