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Writing Aboriginal English & Creoles: Five Case Studies in Australian Education Contexts
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Disbray, Samantha; Loakes, Deborah – Australian Review of Applied Linguistics, 2013
Texts in Aboriginal English (AE) and creole varieties have been created by Indigenous and non-Indigenous writers for a range of purposes. In this paper, we focus on materials created in and for five educational contexts, and investigate the orthographic or spelling systems developed in each setting. Choices about orthography are guided by…
Descriptors: Indigenous Populations, Creoles, English, Foreign Countries
Everywhere and Nowhere: Invisibility of Aboriginal and Torres Strain Islander Contact Languages in Education and Indigenous Language Contexts
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Sellwood, Juanita; Angelo, Denise – Australian Review of Applied Linguistics, 2013
The language ecologies of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander communities in Queensland are characterised by widespread language shift to contact language varieties, yet they remain largely invisible in discourses involving Indigenous languages and education. This invisibility--its various causes and its many implications--are explored through a…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Indigenous Populations, Pacific Islanders, Creoles
Dodgy Data, Language Invisibility and the Implications for Social Inclusion: A Critical Analysis of Indigenous Student Language Data in Queensland Schools
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Dixon, Sally; Angelo, Denise – Australian Review of Applied Linguistics, 2014
As part of the "Bridging the Language Gap" project undertaken with 86 State and Catholic schools across Queensland, the language competencies of Indigenous students have been found to be "invisible" in several key and self-reinforcing ways in school system data. A proliferation of inaccurate, illogical and incomplete data…
Descriptors: Indigenous Populations, Standard Spoken Usage, Foreign Countries, English
Teaching Creole-Speaking Children: Issues, Concerns and Resolutions for the Classroom
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Wigglesworth, Gillian; Billington, Rosey – Australian Review of Applied Linguistics, 2013
There are now significant numbers of children who speak a language other than English when they enter the formal school system in Australia. Many of these children come from a language background that is entirely different from the school language. Many Indigenous children, however, come from creole-speaking backgrounds where their home language…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Indigenous Populations, Creoles, English (Second Language)
Is It a Case of Mind Over Matter? Influences on Teachers' Judgements of Student Speech.
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Haig, Yvonne; Oliver, Rhonda – Australian Review of Applied Linguistics, 2003
Suggests that while language variation is widespread and natural, it is subject to judgment and that where a standard has developed other varieties are judged against the standard. Investigates how teachers judge the speech of school-aged students and what influences that judgment. Results show teachers' perceptions of speech were most strongly…
Descriptors: Age, Elementary School Students, Elementary Secondary Education, English (Second Language)
Teacher Perceptions of Student Speech: A Quantitative Study
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Oliver, Rhonda; Haig, Yvonne – Australian Review of Applied Linguistics, 2005
This study reports on teachers' attitudes towards their students' speech varieties of English. A sample of 172 primary, district high and secondary teachers in Western Australian was surveyed on their attitudes towards language variation and towards their students' use of specific English variants. The teachers were found to have generally…
Descriptors: Language Variation, Teacher Qualifications, Teacher Background, Teaching Experience