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"Yuta Gonydjuy": The 'New Wax' Warramiri Yol?u Parable as Transculturation Literature and "Lonydju'yirr" Literacy at "Gäwa"
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van Gelderen, Ben; Guthadjaka, Kathy – English in Australia, 2019
"Yuta Gonydjuy" ("The New Wax") is a children's story written by Kathy Guthadjaka, an Indigenous Elder from Gäwa, Elcho Island, northeast Arnhem Land in the Northern Territory. Yuta Gonydjuy has been illustrated and published in both Warramiri and English via the bilingual Literature Production Centre at Galiwin'ku, in 1998.…
Descriptors: Childrens Literature, Indigenous Populations, Languages, Bilingualism
Money for Language: Indigenous Language Funding in Australia
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Mahboob, Ahmar; Jacobsen, Britt; Kemble, Melissa; Xu, Zichen Catherine – Current Issues in Language Planning, 2017
This paper examines how language development aid is managed and distributed via grant programs administered by federal and state Aboriginal affairs departments across Australia. While these departments are not the only organisations offering grants for development and language-related projects in Australia, they are in a good position to…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Financial Support, Native Language Instruction, Indigenous Populations
Rekindling Warm Embers: Teaching Aboriginal Languages in the Tertiary Sector
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Gale, Mary-Anne – Australian Review of Applied Linguistics, 2011
This paper reviews the teaching of Aboriginal languages in the tertiary sector of Australia, looking at the stronger languages taught in the university sector versus those languages under revival that tend to be taught in the TAFE sector. The paper summarises the status of courses offered state by state, and sets the scene with some historical…
Descriptors: Universities, Figurative Language, Foreign Countries, Indigenous Populations
Conflicting Knowledges: Barriers to Language Continuation in the Kimberley
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Bedford, Patsy Ngalu; Casson, Siobhan K. – Australian Journal of Indigenous Education, 2010
The Kimberley Language Resource Centre (KLRC) earned its status over three decades as the representative body for Kimberley languages. In 2004, the organisation started to respond to grassroots concerns about the lack of language speakers in the younger generations. Aboriginal people are also connecting loss of languages to loss of bio-cultural…
Descriptors: Indigenous Populations, Culturally Relevant Education, Language Maintenance, Language Skill Attrition