Dear Language Fest 2024 Competitors and their teachers within the Northern Territory,
Thank you for your participation this year in our competition. This year the competition had a total of 417 entries over 8 languages (Filipino, French, German, Indonesian, Japanese, Malayalam, Mandarin, and Tamil) from 21 different schools within the Northern Territory, including: Anula Primary School, Bees Creek Primary School, Casuarina Senior College, Darwin High School, Darwin Languages Centre, Darwin Thamizh School, DMAASC Paddipura School, Durack Primary School, The Essington School, Good Shepherd Lutheran College, Holy Spirit Catholic Primary School, Jingli Primary School, MacKillop Catholic College, Milkwood Steiner School, Millner Primary School, O’Loughlin Catholic College, Our Lady of the Sacred Heart Catholic College, Parap Primary School, St Mary’s Catholic Primary School, St Paul’s Catholic Primary School and Wagaman Primary School.
This year, we held both a speech and a poster component in the competition, which provided students a different way to showcase their language skills. The standard of this competition was incredibly high, with the best from each school sending in their videos and posters to compete in the competition. Through this annual contest students had an excellent opportunity to showcase their language skills.
The adjudicators made their decisions based on the matter, manner and method the contestants employed in presenting their speeches and also how the demonstrated their interpretation of The Olympics theme. The prepared speeches and posters showed an understanding of multiculturalism and open-mindedness and were well developed and interesting.
We would like to congratulate all participating students for the commitment they put into learning their speeches, as well as give special acknowledgement to those who achieved a place or commendation. We would also like to show our gratitude for the time and effort put in by the adjudicators and the Language Fest Organising Committee. Without your support this event would not run. Our sponsors that we would like to thank this year include The Japan Foundation, The Indonesian Consulate, The Confucius Institute, the Spanish Education Office and The Alatai Holiday Apartments for their support and wonderful prizes, which will be making their way to the contestants in the weeks to come.
We hope that the Language Fest competition will keep growing in the years to come and hope to see you all participating in our competition in 2025.
Happy Language Learning!
Language Teachers Association of the Northern Territory 2024 Committee
Language Fest 2024
The Language Teachers’ Association of the NT (LTANT) is pleased to announce that registration will be opened on Monday 15 July for Language Fest - Speaking and Poster Creation Competition in 2024. First of all, we would like to express our deepest thanks to Alatai Holiday Apartments, The Confucius Institute, Consulate of the Republic of Indonesia, Consulate-General of Japan in Sydney and The Japan Foundation, Sydney for supporting this event.
This year, the competition will again be broadened to allow students to both spoken and written work. We will be receiving submissions to this competition ‘online’ with students able to submit pre-recorded video and digital poster entries.
If you wish to register, please read the following guidelines (downloadable) carefully before registering.
​2024 LTANT committee
Language Fest 2024 Guidelines
1. Competition Background:
This year marks the 6th year of Language Fest in its current format. The aim of the competition is to encourage learners who are studying a language to showcase their language skills. Students are able to enter the speaking category or the poster category. Students may even enter both categories should they wish.
1.1 Aim of Competition:
The competition enables participants to showcase the fruits of their language learning.
It is an opportunity to express their thoughts and ideas in language, and the speech preparation or poster creation process provides a valuable learning experience.
1.2 Competition Format:
Students are required to register for the speech or poster competition via www.ltant.org
They are then required to send the link to their competition entry to ltantconnect@gmail.com by the upload date.
2. Division & Length of Entry:
2.1 Speech Competition:
2.2 Poster Competition:
2.3 Possible Speech/ Poster Topics:
The subject, content and form of the speeches are left open to each contestant. Entrants who have competed in previous competitions may not use the same content as previous years.
The theme for 2024 posters is: The Olympics
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Students may choose their own topic or use one of the prompts below for their speeches:
A. Contemporary Issues:
B. When I travelled to……..
C. My ideal holiday destination
D. A profile of a famous person
E. My Dream Weekend
F. Self-Introduction and Hobbies
G. Interview
*Indonesian language students should visit www.naila.org.au to see suggested categories.
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** Japanese language students who are participating in NihonGO will need to check the competition details if they plan to enter into both competitions as the specifications are different. For more information about NihonGo, please visit www.sydney.jpf.go.jp/language-for-learners/contest/nihongo-presentation-fest/
2.4 Eligibility:
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Students must enter one of the background speaker language categories if they are a background speaker of the language.
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If entering the speech competition, students must submit a video of them speaking, rather than adding audio to a PowerPoint.
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Students are permitted to compete in Language Fest 2024 if their language teachers are members of LTANT. Teachers need to check who holds their institutional membership as to which students are permitted to enter competition.
3. Upload:
Please ensure that when the links are shared with the student’s entry that the link is accessible by anyone. Please see the Upload Guidelines .
4. Judging Criteria:
Content and Structure of speech/ poster 50% (structure development, originality and uniqueness, message impact, justification, engagement)
Vocabulary and Grammar 30% (grammar and expression, language variety, pronunciation and
intonation)
Preparation & Originality 20% (delivery, enthusiasm and fluency/visual presentation)
4.1 Judging & Judges
Judges will be from the field of language education and members of the language speaking community and will decide the winners. Judges will determine the place allocated to each contestant in the order of 1st, 2nd, and 3rd. In case of a draw, the judges will determine the outcome through discussion. If judges suspect the use of translation tools, e.g. Google Translate or Chat GPT, the entry will be disqualified. The judges ‘decision is final, and no correspondence will be entered into. The content of the judges’ discussion is not open to the public at any time.
5. Award Announcements:
Language Fest results will be released on 13th September 2024 along with the 2024 Competition Report. An email will be sent to the language teacher with the school’s results. Students who receive a 1st, 2nd or 3rd placing will be announced on www.ltant.org
5.1 Prizes:
All contestants will receive a participation certificate. Prizes will be awarded in each division for those who place 1st, 2nd& 3rd. The prizes will be delivered to the school following the competition.
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5.2 Media:
Uploaded videos and posters may be used in publications such as promotional videos for future contests. All participants are asked to consent to this activity in the application form on www.ltant.org
6. Key Dates:
15th – 26th July – Registration Open
23rd August – Uploads close (links to be sent to ltantconnect@gmail.com by this date
6th September – Judging Closes
13th September – Competition Results Announcements
* No late entries will be accepted.
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Any questions? Please contact LTANT at ltantconnect@gmail.com