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O'Shannessy, Carmel – Journal of Child Language, 2011
The study examines strategies multilingual children use to interpret grammatical relations, focusing on their two primary languages, Lajamanu Warlpiri and Light Warlpiri. Both languages use mixed systems for indicating grammatical relations. In both languages ergative-absolutive case-marking indicates core arguments, but to different extents in…
Descriptors: Video Technology, Sentences, Language Research, Form Classes (Languages)
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Malcolm, Ian G. – Australian Review of Applied Linguistics, 1994
Presents an analysis of five first-person oral narratives of Aboriginal children of Western Australia recorded outside the classroom. These narratives are compared with a first-person oral narrative of a non-Aboriginal child and with teacher-led interactions in the classes of which the Aboriginal children are members. (26 references) (Author/CK)
Descriptors: Child Language, Classroom Environment, Comparative Analysis, Discourse Analysis
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Hart, N.W.M. – 1976
Children's mastery of reading skills would be facilitated if reading programs capitalized on children's already-developed oral language competence. Barriers against "reading for meaning" exist when the cues used for predicting in oral language are not present in the written language which confronts children; yet anaylses of four reading…
Descriptors: Basic Reading, Beginning Reading, Child Language, Language Patterns
Renehan, William – 1977
The linguistic abilities demonstrated by second grade students show a high level of competence in the use of syntactic structures and lexicon. This report describes and interprets, in terms of language function, the talking and writing of fifteen Australian children. Transcripts of conversations provide the basis for the linguistic analysis and…
Descriptors: Child Language, Foreign Countries, Grade 2, Language Patterns
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Bavin, E. L.; Shopen, T. – Journal of Linguistics, 1987
Discusses the progress in the number of innovations and neutralizations in the pronominal system of Warlpiri, an aboriginal language spoken in central Australia. The changes are analyzed by age-group usage, and patterns of the changes are suggested. Part of a sample interview in presented. (Author/LMO)
Descriptors: Age Differences, Australian Aboriginal Languages, Child Language, Diachronic Linguistics
Christie, Frances; Rothery, Joan – 1979
Five articles explore ideas about the nature and kinds of courses dealing with language and education that should be developed in teacher education programs in the Australian school curriculum, specifically where English as mother tongue is used. They include: "Some Recent Developments in Mother Tongue English Teaching in Australia"…
Descriptors: Child Language, Course Descriptions, Curriculum Development, Elementary School Teachers