Language Practices of Indigenous Children and Youth

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xxix

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2. Going to School in a Different World

   • Gillian Wigglesworth, Jane Simpson

   Pages 1-20

3. Curriculum

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 21-21

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   2. Curriculum as Knowledge System: The Warlpiri Theme Cycle

      • Samantha Disbray, Barbara Martin

      Pages 23-48

   3. Language Transition(s): School Responses to Recent Changes in Language Choice in a Northern Dene Community (Canada)

      • Dagmar Jung, Mark Klein, Sabine Stoll

      Pages 49-68

   4. From Home to School in Multilingual Arnhem Land: The Development of Yirrkala School’s Bilingual Curriculum

      • Gemma Morales, Jill Vaughan, Merrkiyawuy Ganambarr-Stubbs

      Pages 69-98

   5. Unbecoming Standards Through Ojibwe Immersion: The Wolf Meets Ma’iingan

      • Mary Hermes, Michelle Haskins

      Pages 99-116

4. Multilingual Repertoires

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 117-117

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   2. Code-Switching or Code-Mixing? Tiwi Children’s Use of Language Resources in a Multilingual Environment

      • Aidan Wilson, Peter Hurst, Gillian Wigglesworth

      Pages 119-145

   3. Languaging Their Learning: How Children Work Their Languages for Classroom Learning

      • Susan Poetsch

      Pages 147-172

   4. Language Practices of Mbya Guarani Children in a Community-Based Bilingual School

      • Nayalin Pinho Feller, Jill Vaughan

      Pages 173-204

5. Contact Languages

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 205-205

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   2. Dangerous Conversations: Teacher-Student Interactions with Unidentified English Language Learners

      • Denise Angelo, Catherine Hudson

      Pages 207-235

   3. Dis, That and Da Other: Variation in Aboriginal Children’s Article and Demonstrative Use at School

      • Henry Fraser, Ilana Mushin, Felicity Meakins, Rod Gardner

      Pages 237-269

   4. Alyawarr Children’s Use of Two Closely Related Languages

      • Sally Dixon

      Pages 271-299

6. Language as Cultural Practice

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 301-301

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   2. Practicing Living and Being Hopi: Language and Cultural Practices of Contemporary Hopi Youth

      • Sheilah E. Nicholas

      Pages 303-335

   3. Learning a New Routine: Kaska Language Development and the Convergence of Styles

      • Barbra A. Meek

      Pages 337-364

   4. Beyond School: Digital Cultural Practice as a Catalyst for Language and Literacy

      • Inge Kral, Sumathi Renganathan

      Pages 365-386

7. Back Matter

   Pages 387-417

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This book explores the experiences of Indigenous children and young adults around the world as they navigate the formal education system and wider society. Profiling a range of different communities and sociolinguistic contexts, this book examines the language ecologies of their local communities, schools and wider society and the approaches taken by these communities to maintain children’s home languages. The authors examine such complex themes as curriculum, translanguaging, contact languages and language use as cultural practice. In doing so, this edited collection acts as a first step towards developing solutions which address the complexity of the issues facing these children and young people. It will appeal to students and scholars of sociolinguistics, applied linguistics and community development, as well as language professionals including teachers, curriculum developers, language planners and educators.

• education
• experience
• language
• sociolinguistics
• multilingualism
• languages in the classroom
• indigenous languages
• second language acquisition
• heritage languages
• austronesian languages

• School of Languages and Linguistics, University of Melbourne, Melbourne, VIC, Australia

  Gillian Wigglesworth

• Australian National University, Canberra, Australia

  Jane Simpson

• Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Trondheim, Norway

  Jill Vaughan

Gillian Wigglesworth is Redmond Barry Distinguished Professor at the University of Melbourne, Australia, and Chief Investigator for the Australian Research Council Centre of Excellence for the Dynamics of Language. She has worked extensively with Indigenous children growing up in remote communities in Australia, largely in the Northern Territory. 

Jane Simpson is Professor of Indigenous Linguistics at the Australian National University, Canberra, Australia, and Deputy Director of the Australian Research Council Centre of Excellence for the Dynamics of Language. Her research focuses on the structure and use of several Australian Aboriginal languages (Warumungu, Kaurna and Warlpiri), as well as English.

Jill Vaughan is a postdoctoral fellow at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Norway. Her work in sociolinguistics and linguistic anthropology is concerned with multilingualism, contact and variation in Indigenous languages of northern Australia, and language practices in the context of the Irish diaspora. 

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