Adult Migrant English Classes

Meet our newest STEPS AMEP trainer Anne McGown! Can you tell me about yourself? I am a semi-retired teacher in Alice Springs. I enjoy teaching students who need support. I have worked in [...]

Reuniting her family, building a life in a new country, learning English for the first time, a lot has happened in two short years for Awur Mabior Yaar Dupho. It wasn’t long ago that Awur first [...]

Rabia Chreki has been learning English in the Adult Migrant English Program (AMEP) in Alice Springs, she enjoys the teaching style and likes “meeting with different cultured students and studying [...]

For Afghani born Ramzan Ali (Kabeer) moving to Australia was a huge step, one Kabeer knew he had to make to be with his Australian wife. “I used to live in Pakistan and my wife lived here (in [...]

For Rina Yulia, the benefits of Australian living are different from the ordinary. Moving to Darwin from Indonesia six years ago, Rina admired the challenges that Australia could bring, and [...]

Moving from Vietnam around ten months ago, Alissa says she was most impressed by the Australian sunset. “I love the sunset, it’s beautiful,” she said. Alissa moved to Australia as she had [...]

Yan Li studies at STEPS AMEP because she enjoys learning something new every day. She moved to Darwin after marrying her Australian husband and has been living in Australia for almost a year now. [...]

Next month, over forty children with asthma will dive back into their swim program and leave the lesson with a carefully crafted bag in which they can safely store their puffers and spacers. [...]

Mohammad Belal didn’t know anything about Australia before he came.   He had a friend who told him to come here because it was a good country.  Mr Belal arrived in Australia as a refugee in 2013, [...]

Finding and settling into a new job can be a challenge for anyone, but it can be even more daunting for someone who has recently migrated and is new to the Australian culture, language and [...]