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

[s.t. bischoff]

Thanks Clair!

On Tue, Jul 17, 2012 at 11:03 AM, Claire Bowern <clairebowern at gmail.com>wrote:

>  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?
>
> Tuesday, 17 July 2012
> Produced by Tim Roxburgh
>
> Story audio [podcast]
>
> 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.
>
> Access podcast below:
> http://www.thewire.org.au/storyDetail.aspx?ID=9373
>
>
>
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