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  • Chapter 3 - Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander students, families, communities and languages

  • from Part 2 - Who speaks what?
  • Robyn Moloney, Macquarie University, Sydney, Lesley Harbon, University of Technology Sydney, Susan Oguro, University of Technology Sydney
  • Book:
    Teaching for Linguistic Diversity in Schools
    Published online:
    25 October 2024
    Print publication:
    27 June 2024, pp 43-66

  • Summary

    In Chapter 3, we are fortunate to have three contributing authors, Susan Poetsch, Denise Angelo and Rhonda Anjilkurri Radley, bringing their research and lived experience in Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander languages.. The chapter describes a dynamic and detailed picture of the multilingualism of communities and the developing ecologies of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander languages. Through six real-life vignettes and visits to communities, we meet multilingual Indigenous children in their daily lives, who move between multiple modes of language use, with their families and in school. The chapter highlights the widespread use of new Indigenous languages (including creoles such as Kriol and Yumplatok) and the revival and revitalisation of traditional Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander languages in some communities. The chapter also highlights Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people’s ways of using English, and the linguistic challenges faced by many children in school.