Recognising the SAE language learning needs of Indigenous primary school students who speak contact languages
dc.contributor.author | Steele, Carly | |
dc.contributor.author | Wigglesworth, Gillian | |
dc.date.accessioned | 2022-01-10T12:38:43Z | |
dc.date.available | 2022-01-10T12:38:43Z | |
dc.date.issued | 2021 | |
dc.identifier.citation | Steele, C. and Wigglesworth, G. 2021. Recognising the SAE language learning needs of Indigenous primary school students who speak contact languages. Language and Education. 37(3): pp. 346-363. | |
dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/87225 | |
dc.identifier.doi | 10.1080/09500782.2021.2020811 | |
dc.description.abstract |
Most Indigenous peoples live in urban and regional locations across Australia and no longer speak their traditional languages fluently. Instead contact languages, creoles and dialects, are widely spoken. In many educational settings, educators may know little about the first languages of the Indigenous children they teach, and not recognise these as different languages or dialects. Consequently, these students may not be treated as second language learners of Standard Australian English (SAE) and their language learning requirements are not considered. From a sociocultural perspective, language is crucial to students’ learning. In this paper, we quantitatively analyse the SAE learning needs of Indigenous primary school aged children in Far North Queensland using oral elicited imitation of simple sentences in SAE as a research method. Using one-way ANOVA, the results are compared with native monolingual SAE speakers showing significant differences between the two. This finding has important implications for classroom teaching practices and educational policies. | |
dc.publisher | Taylor & Francis | |
dc.relation.sponsoredby | http://purl.org/au-research/grants/arc/CE140100041 | |
dc.title | Recognising the SAE language learning needs of Indigenous primary school students who speak contact languages | |
dc.type | Journal Article | |
dcterms.source.volume | 37 | |
dcterms.source.number | 3 | |
dcterms.source.startPage | 1 | |
dcterms.source.startPage | 346 | |
dcterms.source.endPage | 18 | |
dcterms.source.endPage | 363 | |
dcterms.source.issn | 0950-0782 | |
dcterms.source.title | Language and Education | |
dc.date.updated | 2022-01-10T12:38:42Z | |
curtin.note |
This is an Accepted Manuscript of an article published by Taylor & Francis in Language and Education on 30 Dec 2021, available at: https://doi.org/10.1080/09500782.2021.2020811. | |
curtin.department | School of Education | |
curtin.accessStatus | Open access | |
curtin.faculty | Faculty of Humanities | |
curtin.contributor.orcid | Steele, Carly [0000-0003-4587-1654] | |
curtin.contributor.scopusauthorid | Steele, Carly [57212649297] |