Trends in Indigenous Language Usage

Karidakis, Maria; Kelly, Barbara F.

doi:10.1080/07268602.2018.1393861

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“…Whilst such awareness comes after more than 200 years of subjugation, those working both in the fields of linguistics and applied linguistics in Australia have been researching the strong cultural and rich linguistic traditions of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders for some time. As noted in the previous review in this journal (Oliver et al, 2016), and reflecting the intersection of these two fields, this has included in-depth and technical descriptions of endangered languages and the maintenance and revitalisation of these (e.g., Amery, 2016;Angelo et al, 2022;Karidakis & Kelly, 2018;Wafer & Lissarrague, 2008;Walsh, 2011; also see Pennycook & Makoni, 2019, for discussion) and other research reflecting the linguistic innovation of Aboriginal peoples and their development and creative use of new English lexified languages (e.g., Kriola creole spoken across northern Australia, such as Kimberley Kriol, Fitzroy Valley Kriol, Cape York Creole, Torres Strait Creole and varieties of Australian Aboriginal English (AAE)) (e.g., Angelo, 2013;Malcolm, 2018). Work by Meakins and O'Shannessy (2016) also provides a broader description and discussion about contact languages and language contact processes, including pidgins, creoles, mixed languages, contact varieties of English and restructured Indigenous languages.…”

Section: First Nations Peoples and Their Multilingualismmentioning

confidence: 99%

Review of selected research in applied linguistics published in Australia (2015–2022)

Oliver,

Chen,

Dovchin

2024

Lang. Teach.

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This article provides a review of research in applied linguistics published in Australia in the period 2015–2022. Primarily, it is based on articles from Australian publications as material from other sources is more widely available to an international audience. The research has been published in such journals as the Australian Journal of Language and Literacy, Australian Review of Applied Linguistics (ARAL), BABEL, English in Australia, Papers in Language Testing and Assessment and TESOL in Context. Five key areas of research are discussed: First Nations peoples and their multilingualism, language and migration, language testing and assessment, language curricula and pedagogy, and teacher development, and their identity and pedagogical beliefs.

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Section: First Nations Peoples and Their Multilingualismmentioning

confidence: 99%

Review of selected research in applied linguistics published in Australia (2015–2022)

Oliver,

Chen,

Dovchin

2024

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“…Few than half of these languages are currently spoken, with many more having an endangered status, according to McConvell and Thieberger (2001) In reality, Australia has the most languages in the 'nearly extinct' group of ethnologists by far (Thomason, 2015, p. 9). (Karidakis & Kelly, 2017) their study recorded the proportion of people who speak a language other than English (LOTE) over many periods of the census and found that there was a general trend towards a rise in the language transition to English, and indigenous languages are extinct in the category.…”

Section: Indigenous Languagesmentioning

confidence: 99%

Humanistic Values of Indigenous Languages in Bangladesh

Islam

2020

runas

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The purpose of this study is to know the humanistic value that is given to indigenous languages in Bangladesh. This study is based on selected case studies, data from in-depth interviews, focus group discussions, and systematic reviews of relevant literature. The study indicates that in a way the primary, secondary level education is designed focused on fully Bengali and part of it in the English Language. Children soon lose interest in the classroom and drop out when they cannot communicate. The teachers are also from the Bengali community, and fewer than 8% complete primary education while 2% complete secondary education. Besides the dropout, late enrolment, repetition, poor academic grade, for these maximum indigenous students cannot pass the minimum marks for enrolment for higher education and civil service jobs. Besides, many indigenous languages are disappearing but no plan to protect them.

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“…Even more critically, the input of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Island languages in the development of AuE remains underresearched. While approximately 250 different languages were spoken across approximately 700 different political groups at the time of invasion (Thieberger & McGregor, 1994)), and the 2011 Census counted about 61,800 people, representing 11.8% of the Indigenous population, speaking an Indigenous language at home (Karidakis & Kelly, 2018), the documentation of AuE remains an unpardonably white one. Correspondingly, in contemporary Australia, the rising prominence of languages from Asia and the Middle East and the simultaneous decline in the number of speakers of more established community languages from Europe (Karidakis & Arunachalam, 2016), argue that the input of migrant language speaking communities in the evolution of AuE deserve to be heard as well.…”

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Understanding the place of Australian English: exploring folk linguistic accounts through contemporary Australian authors

Mulder

Williams

2018

Asian Englishes

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This paper explores Australian English (AuE) utilising a folklinguistic approach and engaging with its use in novel-writing. It is argued that discussions by contemporary Australian authors about their approaches to writing and voicing characters, and the actual voices authors give to their characters can be used as data to gain new understandings of what language forms have social meanings within AuE. The value of this analytical approach is then illustrated with interview and text extracts from one Australian author, revealing that this type of analysis provides insights into both the folklinguistic understandings of an author and how language variation is employed within the fiction series to index local types. It is concluded that such an approach can be generalised to better understand variation in AuE as accessed by other language focussed professions and their differing conceptualisations of language, as well as to further understand variation in other varieties of English, and in other languages.

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Trends in Indigenous Language Usage

Cited by 32 publications

References 23 publications

Review of selected research in applied linguistics published in Australia (2015–2022)

Review of selected research in applied linguistics published in Australia (2015–2022)

Humanistic Values of Indigenous Languages in Bangladesh

Understanding the place of Australian English: exploring folk linguistic accounts through contemporary Australian authors

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