‘Absolute Garbage’: Education Minister on Academic’s Call to Rename English

‘Absolute Garbage’: Education Minister on Academic’s Call to Rename English
Education Minister Alan Tudge at a press conference at Parliament House in Canberra, Australia, on July 9, 2020. AAP Image/Mick Tsikas
Rebecca Zhu
Updated:

Australian Education Minister Alan Tudge has called an academic’s proposal to rename English to “Language Arts” absolute nonsense.

University of Melbourne senior lecturer Melitta Hogarth told a conference for the Australian Association for the Teaching of English that she believed using the name English was an “act of assimilation,” reported The Courier-Mail.