Community language teachers

The State Library keeps documentary resources associated with Western Australia. This includes material associated with communities that have come to live in Western Australia from all around the world, many of whom speak a language other than English. The State Library also has resources in over 40 languages in the Community Languages Collection.

These are teaching resources for community language teachers.

Education resource goals

  1. To support teachers and students of languages other than English in finding resources in the State Library collections.
  2. To provide suggestions on how to use free resources from the State Library collection to teach and learn a language.
  3. To provide suggestions on how to use free resources from the State Library collection in teaching and learning about the historical background for different language communities in Western Australia.
Egyptian men and boys 1916

Arabic

Arabic teacher resource and collection finding aid
Portrait of Kate Quan Mane January 2017

Chinese

Chinese teaching resource and finding aid
Vlase Zanalis painting an icon of St Paraskevi in the Greek Orthodox Cathedral of St Sophia Sydney

Greek

Greek teacher resource and finding aid
Sikh community at Gurdwara Sahib of Western Australia Sikh Community Centre

Hindi

Hindi teacher resource and finding aid
363275PD Miss Hartini in traditional Indonesian dress drawing the lottery numbers 198

Indonesian

Indonesian teacher resource and finding aid.
Gemellaggio the Fremantle-Italian Festival parade in South Terrace November 1990

Italian

Italian teacher resource and finding aid
Japanese women

Japanese

Japanese teacher resource and finding aid
Persian men

Persian

Persian teacher resource and finding aid
Second boatload of Vietnamese boat people to arrive in Broome 15 June 1977

Vietnamese

Vietnamese teacher resource and finding aid