University of Melbourne researchers urge government to heed indigenous language report (fwd link)

[Phillip E Cash Cash]

*University of Melbourne researchers urge government to heed indigenous
language report
*
Thursday, September 27, 2012
AUS

Report by India Education bureau; Melbourne:

A group of indigenous language researchers from the University of Melbourne
is calling on the Federal Government to implement a proposal to introduce
bilingual teaching programs in some schools.

The proposal was one of 30 recommendations made last week by a Federal
Parliamentary inquiry into language learning in indigenous communities.
Professor Gillian Wigglesworth, the Director of the University’s Indigenous
Language Research Unit, said bilingual education was vital to the
development of young children in communities where languages other than
English were spoken at home.

“Without a bilingual program, children are being taught in a language they
are not familiar with. This means they often don’t understand what is going
on, and then don’t engage,” she said.

Access full article below:
http://www.indiaeducationdiary.in/showEE.asp?newsid=15601
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