Education Has Changed The High Quality Education - 2792 Words

Background context Since early 2000s, education has gradually become one of largest service industry in Australia (Department of Education). Large number of students from all different parts of the world choose to come to Australia for its high quality education. Some of them are international students while many others are new immigrants. To be more specific, international enrolments occupied 13% of total VCE and IB (Year 11 and 12) enrolments in 2011 (VCAA, 2012) and 27% of the students are from language backgrounds other than English. This number has certainly grown over the last 4 years. It’s a clear indication that there are large number of students who are not native user of English in Victorian secondary schools. Those students came†¦show more content†¦As a result, those EAL students will struggle due to lack of understanding in the class and gradually lose their motivation to study when they compare themselves to other mainstream students. According to Fernesten (2008), EAL stu dents often fail to perceive themselves as an user of English, but instead they â€Å"reflect the conflict, struggle, and tension of differences in English†. Fernesten then further explained the term â€Å"differences in English† implies that EAL students will often compare themselves to native users of English, and have desire to gain â€Å"native-like language competence† as their goal. However their desire of achieving ‘native-like competence’ do not enhence their language ability, but instead sets a barrier between EAL students and other mainstream students as they (EAL students) see themselves being different from mainstream students and would often exclude themselves from class participation as they afraid of make mistakes in the class. This has significanrly limited their learning in the class. From the same research, Fernesten (2008) concluded that majority of EAL students â€Å"feel inferior to native user of English and see themselves as outsiders†. This will be particularly problematic for schools with large number of EAL enrolments. As a result, many schools have launched various learning support and inclusion policies to accommodate such problems. Policy Artefacts My last placement school is a prestigious