Nurturing Australia's Little Multilingual Minds

尽管澳大利亚拥有超过300种语言的多语言能力，但它被称为“语言墓地”。通过与社区组织合作，我们将促进多语言的早期学习，从西班牙语和越南语开始。预期的结果是深入了解多语言家庭的经历，支持终身多语言教育的模型，以及开放的传统语言儿童语言数据库。福利包括通过创建量身定制的、基于原则的计划，对幼儿教育做出关键贡献，这将提高儿童的学业成就、家庭社会和心理健康，以及所有澳大利亚人的文化和经济机会。

Despite its substantial multilingual capacity of more than 300 languages, Australia has been described as a 'graveyard for languages'. In partnering with community organisations we will facilitate polyglot early learning, commencing with Spanish and Vietnamese. Expected outcomes are a deep understanding of multilingual families’ experiences, a model to support lifespan multilingual education, and openly-accessible database of child language in heritage languages. Benefits include a pivotal contribution to early childhood education with the creation of a tailor-made, principle-based program, which will enhance children’s academic achievement, familial social and mental wellbeing, and cultural and economic opportunities for all Australians.