The Primacy of the Mother Tongue: Aboriginal literacy and Non-Standard English

Abstract This article describes Indigenous Australian languages as having a history of pejoration dating from colonial times, which has masked the richness and complexity of mother tongues (and more recently developed kriols) of large numbers of Indigenous Au...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Margaret Zeegers, Wayne Muir, Zheng Lin
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies Unit, The University of Queensland 2003-12-01
Series:The Australian Journal of Indigenous Education
Online Access:https://ajie.atsis.uq.edu.au/ajie/article/view/385