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Language Problems and Aboriginal Education Edith Cowan University Research Online ECU Publications Pre. 2011 1977 Language problems and Aboriginal education Ed Brumby (Ed.) Follow this and additional works at: https://ro.ecu.edu.au/ecuworks Part of the Education Commons Brumby, E., & Vaszolyi, E. (1977). Language problems and Aboriginal education. Mount Lawley, Australia: Mount Lawley College of Advanced Education. This Book is posted at Research Online. https://ro.ecu.edu.au/ecuworks/7068 Edith Cowan University Copyright Warning You may print or download ONE copy of this document for the purpose of your own research or study. The University does not authorize you to copy, communicate or otherwise make available electronically to any other person any copyright material contained on this site. You are reminded of the following: Copyright owners are entitled to take legal action against persons who infringe their copyright. 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I ~ 15 ,.-"/ LANGUAGE PROBLEMS AND ABORIGINAL EDUCATION Edited ~y Ed Brumoy & Eric Vaszolyi ~ 2 b"hmG Aboriginal Teacher Education Program Mount Lawley College of Advanced Education FOREWORD Selection and editorial matter copyright @ Aboriginal Teacher Education Program Mount Lawley College of Advanced Education, 1977. Effective communication must be an essential feature of any teaching/ .learning situation and it follows that considerable difficulties arise when teacher and learner speak different and mutually unintelligible languages or ISBN 0 908008 03 1 dialects. This, unfortunately, is the situation in which many, if not most, Aboriginal children and their teachers throughout Australia find themselves. Printed by Mount Lawley College of Advanced Education This classroom situation reflects, of course, the difficulties and frustrations 2 Bradford Street, Mount Lawley, Western Australia. experienced on a wider scale by many Aboriginal parents and Aboriginal communities, and those outsiders who work with them. The problem is compounc~~d further by the fact that few teachers or others who work in Aboriginal areas are given any training in linguistics and the few resources available to them are written in linguistic jargon which in itself represents yet another language. The Aboriginal Teacher Education Program was established at Mount Lawley College of Advanced Education with funds from the Department of Aboriginal Affairs in order to provide specialist training in the teaching of Aboriginal children. One of the many projects initiated by the Program has been the provision of materials for teachers and others interested in gaining a greater appreciation and understanding of Aboriginal languages and dialects of English and the implications of language difference for the classroom. This volume is the result of one of these projects. I recommend this book to all teachers of Aboriginal children and to anyone interested in working with or coming to know Aboriginal people- not only because it provides information about Aboriginal languages and dialects of English, but also because it deals with several important and highly relevant issues such as bilingual education, the teaching of English as a second language and the relationship between culture, language and the classroom. lan Viner, Minister for Aboriginal Affairs, March, 1977. 9. THE PROBLEMS EXPERIENCED BY 61 TS VERNACULAR-SPEAKING ABORIGINAL CHILDREN WHEN ENGLISH ONLY IS USED AS THE MEDIUM OF INSTRUCTION Wilf Douglas 10. ABORIGINAL PRIMARY SCHOOL CHILDREN 69 AND CLASSROOM SPEECH: SOME PRELIMINARY OBSERVATIONS lan Malcolm 11. TWO AUSTRALIAN LANGUAGE EDUCATION 82 PROGRAMS: A LINGUIST'S VIEW Susan Kaldor 12. LANGUAGE PROBLEMS, LANGUAGE PLANNING 96 AND ABORIGINAL EDUCATION Susan Kaldor Sources/ Acknowledgements vi 13. BEYOND COMMON SENSE IN BILINGUAL 116 Contributors viii EDUCATION Introduction X Stephen G. Harris 1. LINGUISTIC GENOCIDE 1 A.J. G rassby 14. BILINGUAL EDUCATION: A POINT OF VIEW 139 Terry Long 2. ABORIGINAL LANGUAGES: TRUTHS AND 5 FALLACIES 15. BILINGUAL EDUCATION: IMPLEMENTATION 147 Eric G. Vaszolyi Amee Glass 3. LANGUAGE AND WORLD VIEW IN ABORIGINAL 12 16. BILINGUAL EDUCATION: THE PRE-SCHOOL 153 AUSTRALIA Jill Churnside Eric G. Vaszolyi 17. ENGLISH IN TRIBAL ABORIGINAL SCHOOLS 156 4. THE KIMBERLEYS: A LINGUISTICS VIEW 19 H.H. Penny Eric G. Vaszolyi 18. THE BUGBEAR OF LITERACY IN THE 160 5. THE NOTION OF BALANCE IN MANTJILTJARA 25 EDUCATION OF TRIBAL ABORIGINES GRAMMAR J.W. Wafer James Marsh 19. TEACHING STANDARD ENGLISH AS A SECOND 165 6. LOOKING AT ENGLISH THROUGH 34 DIALECT TO SPEAKERS OF ABORIGINAL NYANG UMARDA-COLOUR ED SPECTACLES ENGLISH Brian B. Geytenbeek Jennifer Gardiner 7. AUCE SPRINGS ABORIGINAL ENGLISH 45 20. BUT THEY DON'T USE IT IN THE PLAYGROUND 200 Margaret C. Sharpe Ed Brumby 8. A BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF ROPER CREOLE 51 21. LANGUAGE AND READING 204 Margaret C. Sharpe and John Sandefur John Fleming vii 11. Clyne, M. (ed.) Australia Talks. (in press). Printed by kind permission of the author. RCES/ 12. Berndt, R.M. (ed.). Aborigines in Crisis: Australia in the Seventies (in press). Copyright held by the Australian Institute of Aboriginal Studies OWLEDGMENTS and reprinted by kind permission of the author and the Institute. 13. Watts, B. (ed.) The Aboriginal Child at School. Vol.3 No.4. Aug. 1975. pp. 3-27. Reprinted by kind permission of the author. 14. Department of Aboriginal Affairs. Perth. Newsletter. Vo1.1 No.6. Mar. 15. 1974. pp. 5-24. Reprinted by kind permission of the authors. 16. 17. Penny, H. H. The Training of Pitjantjatjara Aborigines for Greater Teaching Responsibilities in South Australian Tribal Aboriginal Schools. Education Department of South Australia. Adelaide. 1976. pp. 36-39 18. Unpublished Manusdipt. Printed by kind permission of the author. 19. Unpublished Manuscript. Printed by kind permission of the author. 20. Aboriginal Teacher Education Program. Mount Lawley College of The readings in this volume have been gleaned from a variety of sources, both Advanced Education. Wikaru 4. Aug. 1975. pp. 24-28. Reprinted by published and unpublished. The editors have taken every possible care to trace ownership of each selection and to make full acknowledgement for kind permission of the author. their use and are grateful to all concerned for their kindness and assistance. 21 .. Watts, B. (ed.) The Aboriginal Child at School. Vol.2 No.1 Feb. 1974. To the best of the editors' knowledge, and unless stated otherwise, copy­ right is held by individual authors. (Note: In some cases, readings noted as unpublished manuscripts may have been published elsewhere without the editors' knowledge.) Reading 1. Summary of address given to the First National Conference of Language Teachers in Australia, 6 May 1976. Printed by kind permission of the author. 2. Department of Aboriginal Affairs. Perth. Newsletter. Vo1.2 No.2. Oct. 1975. pp. 4-12. Reprinted by kind permission of the author. 3. Department of Aboriginal Affairs. Perth. Newsletter. Vo1.2 No.3. Dec. 1975. pp. 6-13. Reprinted by kind permission of the author. 4. Aboriginal Teacher Education Program. Mount Lawley College of Advanced Education. Wikaru 5. Nov. 1975. pp. 16-19. Reprinted by kind permission of the author. 5. Unpublished Manuscript. Printed by kind permission of the author. 6. Unpublished Manuscript. Printed by kind permission of the author. 7. Unpublished Manuscript. Printed by kind permission of the author. 8. Unpublished Manuscript. Printed by kind permission of the author. 9. Watts, B. (ed.). The Aboriginal Child at School. Vo1.3 No.4. Aug. 1975. pp. 28-36. Reprinted by kind permission of the author. 10. Paper presented to the 13th Congress of the International Federation for Modern Languages and Literature, Sydney University, August 1975. Printed by kind permission of the author. viii ix Ed Brumby is Publications Officer and part-time linguist with the Aboriginal TRIBUTORS Teacher Education Program at Mount Lawley College of Advanced Education, Perth. John Fleming is Co-ordinator of Aboriginal Education with the Catholic Education Commission of Western Australia. A.J. Grassby is the Commissioner for Community Relations. Eric Vaszolyi is a lecturer in Linguistics with the Aboriginal Teacher Education Program at Mount Lawley College of Advanced Education, Perth. James Marsh is a field linguist with the Summer Institute of Linguistics at Jigalong, Western Australia. Susan Kaldor is Senior Lecturer in Linguistics with the Department of Anthropology at the University of Western Australia. Brian Geytenbeek is a field linguist with the Summer Institute of Linguistics at Port Hedland, Western Australia. ian Malcolm is Head of the Department of English at Mount Lawley College of Advanced Education. Wilt Douglas is Director of the United Aborigines Mission Language Depart­ ment at Kalgoorlie. Margaret Sharpe is a linguist with the Institute for Aboriginal Development at AI ice Springs. John Sandefur
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