Watch Your Language, Eh?

Authors

  • Christine Nicholls Flinders University of South Australia

Abstract

The first and probably most important piece of advice that anyone can give to prospective teachers of Aboriginal children is to ‘watch your language’. Whether or not the children speak an Aboriginal language as their first language, a Creole or a Pidgin or a version of Aboriginal English, with standard English as either a second language or second dialect, opportunities for miss-communication and non-communication abound.

References

Eades D. 1993Aboriginal English, Pen Magazine, Primary English Teaching Association, N.S.W.

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Published

1994-10-01

How to Cite

Nicholls, C. (1994). Watch Your Language, Eh?. The Aboriginal Child at School, 22(3), 5–12. Retrieved from https://ajie.atsis.uq.edu.au/acs/article/view/944

Issue

Vol. 22 No. 3 (1994)

Section

Articles