L.M.E.R.C.
Languages & Multicultural Education Resources
Centre
150 Palmerston Street, Carlton 3053 Vic.
Tel.: (03) 93491418
Fax: (03) 93491295
VIDEO SUBJECT LISTING
Updated May 03
Tjapukai Dance Theatre
ABORIGINES AND TORRES STRAIT
ISLANDERS
Survivors (Rainbow serpent series)
Tale of two peoples
Aboriginal Australians
Top Enders (Touch the sun series)
Aboriginal experience (2 video set)
The Torres Strait Islanders
Aboriginal perspectives in mathematics
Understanding the Dreaming
Changing culture (Rainbow serpent series)
Using the land
Deadly eh, cuz! Teaching speakers of Koorie
English
Wanyaarri
The Dreaming
Warriors (Rainbow serpent series)
Expressing our culture: Aboriginal and Islander
Art
Windradyne: Wiradjuri resistance
Women (Rainbow serpent series)
Growing up Koorie
Kath Walker: poet and activist
You can do it too: Aboriginal Studies and
Torres Strait Islander studies across the
curriculum
The Koorie kit P-6
AFGHANISTAN
Long way round (Under the skin series)
Afghanistan: the road of constant battle
Making a Difference: A Reconciliation resource
for teachers and students
ARABIC SPEAKING COMMUNITIES IN
AUSTRALIA
Mar the cockatoo: a Boandik dreaming story
“Cos school sucks, Miss”
Sacred sites (Rainbow serpent series)
Tale of two peoples
Tale of two peoples
Zero to zenith: Arabic contributions down under
The Stolen Generation
THE ARTS
The Stolen Generation: one man’s story
The Arts (Arts matters
1
Economic Australia
The Arts: the heart of cultures: teaching for
cultural inclusivity
Exploring futures
Circus across the Arts (Arts matters
Fabric of change
Indigenous arts (Arts matters)
Gift of memories
Media technologies (Arts matters)
Learning about life
Multicultural arts (Arts matters)
Living together
Music and dance (Arts matters)
The natural landscape
Tjapukai Dance Theatre
Political Power
Traditional performing arts of Asia
Rights and Responsibilities
Visual Arts: contexts (Arts matters)
Skeletons in our closet: when Australia was
politically incorrect
ASIAN STUDIES
Talking Trade
Asia Scope
Threads of Ireland
Assignment South East Asia: Cambodia and
Vietnam (1 & 2)
Using the land
Blowpipes and bulldozers
Westgarthtown
Changing times: Australia and Asia in the 90s
Women in change
Traditional performing Arts of Asia
Work
See also specific countries and Videos for
Studies of Asia list
AUSTRIA
Demon Christmas in Austria
ASSESSMENT
BILINGUAL EDUCATION
Mark my words: assessing second and foreign
language skills (6 titles)
Growing up with English plus
AUSTRALIAN STUDIES
Room for two
Arts in society
BULLYING
Australian childhood: changes over 200 years
Bullying
Australian is a wide world
No Bull: say no to bullying and violence in the
workplace
“Being true blue”
CHILD ABUSE
Beliefs, customs and values
Best wishes (Under the skin series)
Chinese diggers
CHINA
Destination Australia
Assignment China: Part 1
Dark cargoes: the Australian slaving system
Born under a Red Flag
2
Chong Ling’s China
Counselling across cultures
China: the history and the mystery
Dealing with cultural differnces in tourism and
hospitality
China in change: images of China
When dreaming paths meet
China: Unleashing the dragon series
DEATH
Chinese cities series (5 titles, in Chinese)
Grandma’s teeth (Under the skin series)
Half the sky: women in modern China
Discrimination see RACISM
Hong Kong (views & Capital)
DREAMING STORIES
Hong Kong: the Chinese takeover
The Dreaming
South West China (Lonely Planet)
Dreaming stories
Struggle for China
Mar the cockatoo: a Boandik dreaming story
CHINESE
Understanding the Dreaming
A basic methodological model for the teaching
of Chinese
EAST TIMOR
Between cultures
One day in Fatulai
Chalkface: “ How do I spell my name in
Chinese?”
ENGLISH
Approaches to Teaching Writers
Chinese cities series (5 titles, in Chinese)
English sorts ya brain
Chinese television plays (5 titles, in Chinese)
James Moloney: Writing from Experience
The Chinese word for…series
Perfect punctuation
Duwai Hanyu Jiaoxue Dianshi Duanjuji
Presenting a point of view about an issue
First Moon
Reporting the news: The journalistic process
Fun with Taiji
Hungry Ghosts
What Is Visual Literacy? An Inservice Video
Workshop for I See What You Mean
Play and learn Chinese with Mei Mei
ESL
CHINESE IN AUSTRALIA
Anzac Day (Easy news series)
Chinese diggers
...And now English
CIVICS AND CITIZENSHIP
Australia Day (Easy news series)
A Law is Made: How new laws are made by the
Parliament of Victoria
Australian Rules football (Easy news series)
A child’s guide to language
Investigating values, voting and all that
ESL learners in the Middle Years
CROSS-CULTURAL COMMUNICATION
3
Experience Australia: more than a fair chance.
Job interview techniques for migrants
Carnival in France
Celebrations
Hello Australia (5 video set)
Demon Christmas in Austria
IT in action: information technology in the
languages classroom
Language development in the multicultural
classroom: discussion starters
Diwali nights
First moon
Gemellaggio
Lingo
A Greek Orthodox baptism
Making the links
Hungry ghosts
Meeting the Need: ESL Provision in Victorian
Schools
Oktoberfest in Munich
Melbourne Cup (Easy news series)
FRANCE
Methodological issues for ESL teachers
Carnival in France
Muzzy in Gondoland
Fork in the road: France
Play on words: teaching English as a second
language in primary schools
France: Behind the scenes
France: land and people
Saturday school
France: Paris/Loire Valley
Second language acquisition and the language
curriculum
Touring France
Sharing the talk time
FRENCH
Teaching language in context: the topic
approach to ESL
Dossiers France television
French for senior students
Wanyaarri
Karoake de Noel
Whole language: a NZ approach
On est fou de foot (Football crazy)
ESL MODELS
Vagabondages 1 & 2
Alternatives: whole school approaches to
teaching English as a second language
VideoFrance: Optiques va vie quotidienne
Critical Focus
GENDER EQUITY
ESL in action
Girls in the corner
Meeting the Need: ESL Provision in Victorian
Schools
Who wants to be a princess anyway?
GENRE APPROACH
ETHNIC SCHOOLS
Context-text-grammar: ants and other ‘stories’
Saturday school
FESTIVALS
Earthworms: teaching factual writing in the
early years of school
4
Exploring how texts work
GREEK
Teaching factual writing in the primary school
Greek language and people
Teaching factual writing: Secondary science
A Greek Orthodox Baptism
GEOGRAPHY
GREEKS IN AUSTRALIA
Overpopulation: Six Billion People and Giant
New Cities
A Greek journey
Five times dizzy
GERMAN
Letters from home: Greece
Deutsche Szenen
HANDWRITING
Fur Freiheit und Einheit: Die Deutschen und ihr
Parlament
Teaching writers; ‘what about handwriting?’
Deutsch-Magazin
HUMAN RIGHTS
Hallo Berlin
But what about Doug’s rights?
Iks ist da!
Young people and the workplace
Muzzy
IMMIGRATION
Eine Reise durch die Bundesrepublic
Deutschland, Reil 1-3
Admission impossible
Australian mosaic: “Bent not broken”
Suzanne
Destination Australia
Turbo series
Encounters with Australia
Das Weihnachts-Karaoke
GERMANS IN AUSTRALIA
From tribes to boat people (Faces in the street:
part1)
Australia’s Germans
Hard work and hope: Australia’s Italians
Westgarthtown
Ibrahim
GERMANY
The Mandarins of New Golden Mountain
East Frisland
The migrant experience
The German Museum
Migration, multiculturalism & other issues
(Faces in the street: part2)
Germany: Behind the Scenes (Fodor's Video)
Migrants in Australia: an Italian experience
Germany: Berlin and Hamburg
Migrants in Australia: a Jewish experience
Germany: Magic Rhine and The Romantic Road
Migrants in Australia: a Vietnamese experience
The Hanseatic League
GREECE
No turning back: the settlement of Asian
refugees in Australia
Greece: Behind the Scenes (Fodor's Video)
Through Australian eyes
5
Things I call mine
Hujan Besakih
INDIA
Ikan-ikan Kusamba
Diwali nights
Indonesian conversations
Faces of India (5 videos)
Jalan Kita
India (Traveller’s guide to the Orient series)
Kesenian Banumasan gamelan song and dance
Into India
Kota saya
The Mughals, 1526-1707
Lumpia and dance Semarang
North India: Varanasi to the Himalayas (Lonely
Planet)
Mari Menonton
South India (Lonely Planet)
Memasak di dapur
There’s another India
Musisi jalanan di Yogyakarta
INDONESIA
My sky, my home
Bali: myth and tradition
Ombak-Ombak Ulawatu
Cremation in Bali
Orang Utan dari Bukit Lawang
A Day in the life of the child: Bali
Sekolah Saya
Discover Indonesia
Tarian di Ubud
Indonesia (Traveller’s guide to the Orient)
INFORMATION LITERACY
Indonesian cuisine
Becoming inforamtion literate
The Indonesia experience (Lonely Planet)
“ Gimme everything you’ve got on transport”
Indonesia: in the land of the big buffaloes
What’s going on here?
Indonesian traditions: duck farming
ITALIAN
Java: myth and tradition
Le avventure di Spotty
A look at Indonesia
Buon compleano Spotty!
Only in Indonesia
Karaoke di Natale
Silk and steel
Letters from home: Italy
Sulawesi: myth and tradition
Muzzy Italian
INDONESIAN
No Mamma, No and La Grande Occasione
Candra Kirana: an Indonesian Theatre
Performance
Vacanza Scuola: an Italian language immersion
holiday
Developing as a teacher of Indonesian language
ITALIANS IN AUSTRALIA
Hari ulang tahun di Kuta
6
Gemellaggio
Japanese culture in Australia
Hard work and hope: Australia’s Italians
Let's talk about Japan
Migrants in Australia: an Italian experience
On a paper crane
New heroes, new myths: Australia’s Italians
The Good Wife of Tokyo
ITALY
University students (Way of life in Japan series)
Corsica, Sicily and Sardinia: Mediterranean
Islands (Lonely Planet)
Young baseball heroes (Faces of Japan series)
The face of Italy
Weddings (Way of life in Japan series)
Florence (Supercities series)
JAPANESE
Fork in the road: Italy
Gun Gun pera pera. 1-10
Life, times and wonders of Rome & Pompeii
(Great cities of the Ancient World)
Japanese for senior students
Japanese gestures
Rome (Supercities series)
Japanese language and people (BBC)
Rome : the eternal city
Mononoke Hime
Touring Italy
NHK Okaasan to Issho-Super
Venetian gondola pageant
Origami
Venice (Supercities series)
Otedama-no-tebiki (How to play Otedama)
JAPAN
Pocohontas
Craft Japan
Seven Samurai
Discovering Japan: the living city
Speaking Japanese :the farewell party
Discovering Japan: our own special culture
Tenkuu no Shiro Rapyuta`
Discovering Japan: school and home
Three Japanese fairy tales
Getting acquainted (Japan unveiled)
Wakawaka Katakana
Glimpses of Japan
Toy story
Guidelines for entering a Japanese Language
school
KOREA
Japan: from Tokyo to Taiwan (Lonely Planet)
Family: Korean - two sons
Japan: the land of the rising sun (Traveller’s
guide to the Orient series)
Four seasons of Chejudo, Korea
Island of fantasy & mystery
Japan – land of the rising sun (VEA)
Korea
Japan: the nation family
Korea’s culture
Japan today:the country and its people
7
The battle of Maryan San
Languages at work
Travelling in Korea
Languages for life
KOREAN
Language of distance
Korean program: McKinnon SC
Learning to communicate
LEBANON
Learning together in the mixed age and ability
LOTE class
Sharfouna: the beauty of Lebanon
Natural language learning
LITERACY
School of Babel
Critical literacy resource pack
Two languages are better than one
The ebb and flow of phonics in a balanced
literacy classroom
Why learn a language?
Getting better at ... successful intervention
LOTE MODELS
Guided reading (Keys to life)
Developing as a teacher of Indonesian
Early literacy initiative: Working with ESL
students
Italian in the primary school
Korean program: McKinnon SC
Learning centres (Keys to life)
What Is Visual Literacy? An Inservice Video
Workshop for I See What You Mean
LOTE learning: teaching a second language in
primary schools
Room for two
LOTE
All about LOTE
Whole language LOTE: a partial bilingual
program
A basic methodological model for the teaching
of Chinese
MACEDONIA
Baba Zora
Bilingual kids
MACEDONIAN
Chalkface: “How do I spell my name in
Chinese?”
Skipping class
A child’s guide to language
MATHEMATICS
A conversation with high-ability students of
languages
Aboriginal perspectives in mathematics
Mathematical literacy
Critical focus
Spensley Street family maths program
Developing as a teacher of Indonesian
IT in action : information technology in the
languages classroom
Migration see Immigration
Italian in the primary school
MULTICULTURAL EDUCATION
The language centre
Australian is a wide word
8
In between
Bilingual kids
Kids of the melting pot
Chalkface: a trip to Mexico. An integrated
approach
Line home (Under the skin series)
“Cos school sucks, Miss”
A little love (Under the skin series)
Critical focus
Living together
The long ride (Under the skin series)
Culture club
Food: a multi-cultural feast
Maiden over:Traditional values versus modern
ways in multicultural Australia
The language centre
Many cultures .....one community
Mother tongue
Migration, multiculturalism & other issues
(Faces in the street: part2)
Old ground, new ground, school ground
Our multicultural society
School of Babel
The real Aussie video
Skipping class
Windows
See me hear me: issues concerning women of
non-English speaking backgrounds
MULTICULTURALISM
Seen one, seen ‘em all
Anyway what is an Australian?
Songs of innocence
Aussie rules
Talking Trade
Australian childhood: changes over 200 years
Things I call mine
Australian is a wide word
Windows (Under the skin series)
“ Being true blue”
Women in change
Beliefs, customs and values
NON-VERBAL COMMUNICATION
Between cultures
Reading people: the unwritten language of the
body
Birthdays
ORAL LANGUAGE
Celebrations
Now you’re talking
Chinese diggers
Fabric of change
Oral language and the teaching of English: an
inservice package
Family Life
Sharing the talk time
The family spirit (Under the skin series)
Speaking and listening:preschool-year4
Five times dizzy
Talk! monitoring and assessing oral language
Hungry Ghosts
PAKISTAN
9
Pakistan
Hatred: How It Affects All of Us
PARENT PARTICIPATION
Human rights: Debney Park High School
Making contact: your child’s school
Just who’s prejudiced
Reading together is magic
Kids of the melting pot
Reading with your child ( English and
Vietnamese)
PEACE
Majority retreat
More than skin deep: racial discrimination in
Australia
Peace One Day
Racism in Australia
The PHILIPPINES
The real Aussie video
The Philippines
Seen one, seen ‘em all
PHILOSOPHY
I think…
Tale of two peoples
REFUGEES
PD KITS
Australia's refugee dilemma
Blue-eyed: training kit on discrimination and
prejudice for use in an Australian context
Critical Literacy resource pack
Bent not broken
Given a chance: a video training manual on
working with refugee young people
Diversity: early childhood training series
Mohamed Ali's Happy Day Feast
Key competencies: professional development
for teachers and trainers
Oral language and the teaching of English: an
inservice package
No turning back
Not a matter of choice
Refugees: far from home
Partnership teaching
Refugees: rebuilding shattered lives
Teaching about Language: learning about
Language: an inservice package
Teaching English: a practical guide for teachers:
an inservice package
RELIGIONS
Buddhism
Christianity
RACISM AND PREJUDICE
Confucianism and Taoism
A class divided
Diwali nights
Behind the news (1997: Racism)
Beyond tolerance (Hughes PS, ACT)
Hare Krishnas (What do they do in there?
series)
Blue-eyed training kit
Hinduism
Countering racism
Islam
Dino, where you been? (Under the skin series)
Judaism
10
Muslims in Australia
TURKEY
Shinto
Turkey
Sikhs (What do they do in there? series)
TURKISH
Taoists (What do they do in there? series)
Lafonten'den Masallar
Tibetan Buddhists (What do they do in there?
series)
Letters from home: Turkish
TURKS IN AUSTRALIA
SCHOOLS AND TEACHING
Many cultures, one community
All in : co-operative education. Making schools
work for everyone
CALL: Content Area Literacy and Learning
Program
UKRAINIAN
Kozatski pryhody
Piter Pan - speaks Ukrainian
Literacy, diversity and schooling
VIETNAM
Partnership teaching
As the mirror burns
Performance appraisal and personal
development
Teachers and learners: strategies for enhancing
effective learning and teaching in classrooms
Workplace Learning in Victoria (ie.Vocational
Education in Schools)
Assignment South East Asia: Cambodia and
Vietnam (1 & 2)
Vietnam (Lonely Planet)
VIETNAMESE
Traditional Vietnamese children’s games
Whole language: a New Zealand approach
VIETNAMESE IN AUSTRALIA
SOMALIA
The blanket of love (Under the skin series)
Diiwaan gelinta hiddaha iyo dhaqanka
Soomaaliyeed
Letters from home: Vietnam
SOMALIS IN AUSTRALIA
Migrants in Australia: a Vietnamese experience
Mohamed Ali's Happy Day feast
On loan (Touch the sun series)
Through our eyes: Aragtidayada
Worlds apart
SPANISH
VISUAL LITERACY
Aqui se habla Espanol
Reading film: Film as text
VideoPassport Spanish
Teaching viewing
THAILAND
Viewing for learning
Bangkok (Traveller’s guide to the Orient)
VOLCANOES
Thailand (Traveller’s guide to the Orient)
Fire on the rim series
Thailand for sale
YOUNG ADULT LITERATURE
11
James Moloney: Writing from Experience
12