Nurturing Australia's Little Multilingual Minds

尽管澳大利亚拥有超过300种语言的多语种能力，但它一直被描述为“语言的坟墓”。通过与社区组织的合作，我们将促进多国语言的早期学习，从西班牙语和越南语开始。预期成果是对多语种家庭经历的深入了解，支持终身多语种教育的模式，以及以遗产语言公开获取的儿童语言数据库。好处包括通过创建一个量身定做的、以原则为基础的项目，为早期儿童教育做出关键贡献，该项目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.