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What Should Schools do About Aboriginal Language Maintenance?

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  22 July 2015

Jack Frawley
Jack Frawley*
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Batchelor College, Batchelor, N.T.
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In addressing this question, I will briefly outline the existing types of language maintenance program models, and what schools can do about Aboriginal language maintenance in the Aboriginal community school context. I have suggested a number of guiding principles for Aboriginal schools which are not intended to be prescriptive, but rather to establish a basis for dialogue and discussion from which language maintenance programs could be developed.

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Research Article
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The Australian Journal of Indigenous Education , Volume 20 , Issue 1 , March 1992 , pp. 3 - 14
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press or the authors 1992

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