Australia: Pupils mark Indigenous language milestone

[Harold Schiffman]

Forwarded From edling at lists.sis.utsa.edu


ABC Online



Pupils mark Indigenous language milestone



Aboriginal students in Alice Springs have completed Year 12 studies in
an Indigenous language for the first time. Dominique Castle from the
Alice Springs language centre says five Indigenous students received
high NTCE scores in Arrernte language studies in 2007.Ms Castle says
the students' success is a good sign for the future of the Arrernte
language in the region. "It's very important to be teaching an
Indigenous language and especially to have an Indigenous teacher who's
also on the team teaching it, because students are getting the
cultural and the language aspect of it and can keep the language
alive," she said. Ms Castle says the students even went on a study
tour of New Zealand to see how the Maori language is taught in
schools.



Full story:

http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2008/01/08/2134094.htm



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 Harold F. Schiffman

Professor Emeritus of
 Dravidian Linguistics and Culture
Dept. of South Asia Studies
University of Pennsylvania
Philadelphia, PA 19104-6305

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