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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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies Unit, The University of Queensland
2003-12-01
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Series: | The Australian Journal of Indigenous Education |
Online Access: | https://ajie.atsis.uq.edu.au/ajie/article/view/385 |