Lack of English in remote communites: crisis or win for local language? (fwd link)

[Claire Bowern]

See http://munanga.blogspot.com/2012/07/how-not-to-report-on-indigenous.html for more commentary on this story and how wrong the reporter got the figures.
Claire


On Tuesday, July 17, 2012 at 12:27 PM, Phillip E Cash Cash wrote:

> Lack of English in remote communites: crisis or win for local language?
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> Tuesday, 17 July 2012
> Produced by Tim Roxburgh
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> Story audio [podcast]
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> New census data shows that around forty per cent of kids in some
> indigenous communities in remote South Australia do not speak English
> well, or don’t speak English at all. But one expert has warned against
> seeing this as a crisis or as a deficiency among these communities. He
> says the figures may simply show that these communities have a strong
> connection to their own local language and culture.
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> Access podcast below:
> http://www.thewire.org.au/storyDetail.aspx?ID=9373
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