Policy and Indigenous Languages in Australia

Autor/in	McKay, Graham
Titel	Policy and Indigenous Languages in Australia
Quelle	In: Australian Review of Applied Linguistics, 34 (2011) 3, S.297-319 (23 Seiten) PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0155-0640
Schlagwörter	National Curriculum; Language Planning; Language Attitudes; Bilingual Education; Bilingual Education Programs; Foreign Countries; Language Skills; Educational Policy; Indigenous Populations; Language Usage; Literacy; National Standards; English (Second Language); Second Language Learning; Language Minorities; Australia + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Sprachwechsel; Sprachverhalten; Bilingual teaching; Bilingualer Unterricht; Ausland; Language skill; Sprachkompetenz; Politics of education; Bildungspolitik; Sinti und Roma; Sprachgebrauch; Alphabetisierung; Schreib- und Lesefähigkeit; English as second language; English; Second Language; Englisch als Zweitsprache; Zweitsprachenerwerb; Sprachminderheit; Australien
Abstract	The use of Indigenous languages has been declining over the period of non-Aboriginal settlement in Australia as a result of repressive policies, both explicit and implicit. The National Policy on Languages (Lo Bianco, 1987) was the high point of language policy in Australia, given its national scope and status and its attempt to encompass all aspects of language use. Indigenous languages received significant recognition as an important social and cultural resource in this policy, but subsequent national policy developments moved via a focus on economic utility to an almost exclusive emphasis on English, exacerbated by a focus on national literacy standards. This is exemplified in the Northern Territory's treatment of Indigenous bilingual education programs. Over recent years there have been hopeful signs in various states of policy developments supportive of Indigenous languages and in 2009 the Commonwealth Government introduced a new National Indigenous Languages Policy and a plan for a national curriculum in languages. Support for Indigenous languages remains fragmentary, however, and very much subservient to the dominant rhetoric about the need for English skills, while at the same time ignoring research that shows the importance of Indigenous and minority languages for social well-being and for developing English language skills. (Contains 1 figure.) (As Provided).
Anmerkungen	Applied Linguistics Association of Australia. e-mail: info@alaa.org.au; Web site: http://www.alaa.org.au/page/aral_journal.html
Erfasst von	ERIC (Education Resources Information Center), Washington, DC
Update	2017/4/10