Warm congratulations go to France Meyer, Lecturer in the Arabic Program, who has been nominated for the inaugural Patji-Dawes Award to honour outstanding achievements in language teaching by an accomplished practitioner in Australia. The award is being issued jointly by the Languages and Cultures Network of Australian Universities and the ARC Centre of Excellence for the Dynamics of Language.

The Patji-Dawes award is an initiative of the ARC Centre of Excellence for the Dynamics of Language  through its Communications and Outreach Program, which includes a commitment to improving levels of multilingualism and mastery of other languages in Australia through understanding and public debate on how we learn (and teach) second and other languages most effectively.

The winner will be announced on 16 October.