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From Conversation to Oral Composition: Supporting Indigenous Students' Language for Literacy
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Janet Scull; Patricia Bremner – Babel, 2013
The development of oral language and specifically increased control over literate discourse is critical to students' ability to create and comprehend texts in the early years of schooling and beyond. For students with home languages that differ from the forms of language used in school, the development of oral language through carefully designed…
Descriptors: Oral Language, Literacy Education, Indigenous Populations, Intervention
Young Australian Indigenous Students' Effective Engagement in Mathematics: The Role of Language, Patterns, and Structure
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Warren, Elizabeth; Miller, Jodie – Mathematics Education Research Journal, 2013
This paper explores the outcomes of the first year of the implementation of a mathematics program ("Representations, oral language and engagement in Mathematics": RoleM) which is framed upon research relating to effectively supporting young Indigenous students' learning. The sample comprised 230 Indigenous students (average age 5.76…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Indigenous Populations, Multiple Regression Analysis, Oral Language
The Metrical Foot in Diyari.
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Poser, William – Phonology, 1989
Considers the metrical foot in Diyari, a South Australian Language, and concludes that, on the basis of stress alone, an argument can be made for the constituency of the metrical stress foot under certain theoretical assumptions. This conclusion is reinforced by the occupance in Diyari of other less theory-dependant phenomena. (46 references) (JL)
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Language Patterns, Linguistic Theory, Oral Language
Aboriginal English Inside and Outside the Classroom.
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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
Predisposition to Choose: The Language of an Information Gap Task in a Multilingual Primary Classroom
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Dufficy, Paul – Language Teaching Research, 2004
This paper focuses on an information gap task that was part of a larger critical action research project that sought to expand talk opportunities for children in multilingual classrooms. Little of the previous research on tasks and language learning has focused on children learning English as an additional language in the context of diverse,…
Descriptors: Language Patterns, Action Research, Written Language, Oral Language
Aboriginal Student Enclaves as Discourse Communities.
Malcolm, Ian G. – 1996
A study investigated the role of the Aboriginal Student Enclave, one of five campuses of Edith Cowan University (Australia) as a discourse community. The relatively small but cohesive university subcommunity is designed to provide additional support for Aboriginal students enrolled in standard programs and an environment in which the students are…
Descriptors: Case Studies, College Environment, College Students, Discourse Analysis