English plus Language Teaching Assistant

A language teaching assistant enters an Australian primary or secondary school and assists a teacher in developing and delivering bilingual language lessons to the children. As a native speaker of the target language you will be of great help to the teacher and the students You will have an opportunity to meet and work with teachers and staff at a primary or secondary school. This will help to build your conversational skills and give you invaluable experience in a professional workplace. You will also get to meet and interact with Australian school children and this can be a fun and rewarding way of improving your English. You will mostly be communicating with staff in English. For the teachers and staff that you assist, they will have an opportunity to practice their own language skills with you, a native speaker. You’ll also be able to give the students, and staff, an opportunity to hear native accents and intonation and use authentic everyday vocabulary. You will also be able to share your culture with both staff and students.