Dedication
Acknowledgements
Conventions
Foreword
Jeannie Bell
About the authors
Introduction: re-awakening Australian languages
John Hobson, Kevin Lowe, Susan Poetsch and Michael Walsh
Part 1: language policy and planning
Introduction: language policy and planning
John Hobson
1. Closing the policy-practice gap: making Indigenous language
policy more than empty rhetoric
Adriano Truscott and Ian Malcolm
2. Why language revitalisation sometimes works
Michael Walsh
3. Our ways of learning in Aboriginal languages
Tyson Kaawoppa Yunkaporta
Part 2: languages in communities
Introduction: languages in communities
Kevin Lowe
4. Monitoring the use of Kaurna
Rob Amery
5. Introducing Wiradjuri language in Parkes
Geoff Anderson
6. Going public with language: involving the wider community in
language revitalisation
Knut J. Olawsky
7. Ngapartji Ngapartji: Indigenous language in the arts
Beth Sometimes and Alex Kelly
8. Awakening or awareness: are we being honest about the retrieval
and revival of Australia’s Aboriginal languages?
Trevor Stockley
Part 3: language centres and programs
Introduction: language centres and programs
Michael Walsh
9. Maam ngawaala: biindu ngaawa nyanggan bindaayili. Language
centres: keeping language strong
Anna Ash, Pauline Hooler, Gary Williams and Ken Walker
10. Language centre as language revitalisation strategy: a case
study from the Pilbara
Sally Dixon and Eleonora Deak
11. Whose language centre is it anyway?
Kimberley Language Resource Centre
12. Revitalisation strategies for Miriwoong
Knut J. Olawsky
Part 4: language in education
Introduction: language in education
Susan Poetsch and Kevin Lowe
13. Using identical resources to teach young and adult language
learners
Ursula Brown
14. Aboriginal languages programs in TAFE NSW: delivery initiatives
and strategies
Jackie Cipollone
15. Reclamation process for Dharug in Sydney using song
Richard Green
16. Developing the Dhurga Program at Vincentia High School: the
language teacher’s perspective
Karen Lane
17. So you want to work with the community? Principles and
strategies for school leaders affecting the establishment of
Aboriginal language programs
Kevin Lowe and Peter Howard
18. Establishing a school language program: the Parkes High School
experience
Stephen Maier
19. Language revitalisation: community and school programs working
together
Diane McNaboe and Susan Poetsch
20. The importance of understanding language ecologies for
revitalisation
Felicity Meakins
21. The rebirth of Wergaia: a collaborative effort
Julie Reid
22. Strategies for doing the possible: supporting school Aboriginal
language programs in NSW
Mari Rhydwen
Part 5: literacy and oracy
Introduction: literacy and oracy
Michael Walsh
23. Questions of fluency in Australian languages revitalisation
John Hobson
24. Sounds, spelling and learning to read an Aboriginal
language
Caroline Jones, Paul Chandler and Kevin Lowe
25. English influence on the pronunciation of re-awakened
Aboriginal languages
Nicholas Reid
Part 6: language and technology
Introduction: language and technology
John Hobson
26. Increasing the accessibility of information on the Indigenous
languages of Victoria
Heather Bowe, Julie Reid and Kathy Lynch
27. Flexible IT resources for community language reclamation: using
culturally appropriate contexts
Cat Kutay, George Fisher and Richard Green
28. Electronic dictionaries for language reclamation
Aidan Wilson
Part 7: language documentation
Introduction: language documentation
Michael Walsh
29. Libraries, languages and linking up
Faith Baisden
30. Yan-nhaŋu language documentation and revitalisation
Claire Bowern and Bentley James
31. A house already lived in
Christina Eira and Lynnette Solomon-Dent
32. Bringing the language home: the Ngarrindjeri dictionary
project
Mary-Anne Gale and Syd Sparrow
33. The development of the Gamilaraay, Yuwaalaraay and Yuwaalayaay
dictionary
John Giacon
34. Emergency language documentation teams: the Cape York Peninsula
experience
Clair Hill and Patrick McConvell
Index
Re-awakening Languages seeks to give voice to Indigenous people regarding the revitalisation of Australian languages in the 21st century.
About the editors:
John Hobson is a lecturer in Indigenous education at the
University of Sydney.
Kevin Lowe is a post doctoral research fellow at Macquarie
University.
Susan Poetsch is a lecturer in Indigenous education at the
University of Sydney.
Michael Walsh is an honorary associate of linguistics at the
University of Sydney.
'Re-awakening Languages has a very broad scope but it also has
enough detail to be useful to many specific interests. It is an
excellent introduction to the current issues around Australian
Indigenous languages. It would be particularly valuable to managers
in the various education systems who have too often demonstrated
rather limited understanding of this area.'
*The Australian Journal of Indigenous Education*
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