She also played a leading role in designing the Years 11 and 12 English Language subject - one of the three choices available to students to meet their English requirements in VCE in Victoria. It’s only in the last five years that it has been phased back in.ĭr Jean Mulder, a linguist with the School of Languages and Linguistics at the University of Melbourne, has played an instrumental role in shaping the form of explicit English language teaching in the national curriculum for grades Prep to Year 10. This is largely because structured English-language learning was culled from the national curriculum in the 1960s. But despite the fact that English is the imposed language of the land, many native English speakers in Australia don’t actually have a solid grasp of it.
