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This chapter introduces the key themes of the book. The foundations of tertiary language teaching are explored, along with the evolving policies of governments towards languages. The chapter introduces four themes: the national interest, the changing demographics of the Australian population, Australia’s relationship with Asia in terms of trade and security and the growing importance of Asian languages for Australia. International influences are discussed as is the international education sector. A series of language reports are signposts through the twentieth and twentieth-first centuries. The research for this book has drawn on many universities’ histories as well as interviews with those who were part of the narrative of languages teaching in the era covered by the book. A summary of each chapter seeks to enable the reader to understand how the political and academic influences have shaped the history of tertiary languages teaching.
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Languages other than English here include foreign languages, but do not include the Indigenous languages of Australia.
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Edgeloe was awarded this unique title when he retired in 1973.
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The Go8 was formally incorporated in 1999, comprising the Universities of Sydney, Melbourne, Adelaide, Queensland, New South Wales and Western Australia, Monash University and the Australian National University, some of the largest and oldest universities in Australia.
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Baldwin, J.J. (2019). Introduction. In: Languages other than English in Australian Higher Education. Language Policy, vol 17. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-05795-4_1
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