Keeping Languages Alive

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Keeping Languages Alive
2009/13153
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• Barndi mungal!
• Nyinda barndi!

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• Nganhu yugilyiyimanha barndiyimanha miyarnagu
  nganhungu wangga Wajarri.
• An Aboriginal Language of WA

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Outcomes

• Listening and responding and speaking
• Viewing, reading and responding
• Generating language texts
• Appreciating Australian Indigenous languages

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Content (1)

• Language knowledge and use
• Features of language
• Varieties of text

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Content (2)

• Cultural understanding
• Language and social life
• Language, culture and the environment
• Language shift and the community
• Cultural protocols in accessing, eliciting,
  recording and storing information

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Content (3)

• Learning and communication strategies
• Making meaning
• Communicating effectively
• Supporting the learning and acquisition of
  language

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Geraldton Senior College

• Total enrolment 900
• Aboriginal enrolment 27
• Mainstream
• Football Academy
• Warlugurra Walgamanyulu
• Kicking goals Year 10

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Strengths

• Integrates with other courses
• Reinforces philosophy of valuing and using first
  language for other learning
• Affirms linguistic and cultural identity
• Is a result of broad community consultation
• Builds on K 10 programs

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Challenges

• Resources
• Small numbers
• Diversity of languages
• Comparability

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Students

• Im learning more about myself.
• I like learning about who I am.
• I like learning about my language and my culture.

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Teacher

• It has given me confidence to speak to my sons
  in Wajarri.
• Whether we are greeting each other or the day,
  having the ability to name people, places and
  birds and animals fills me with pride We say
  hello sky, hello sun in Wajarri.

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Future directions

• ?

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Perceived issues - National

• Outcomes
• Pathways
• Principles and protocols
• Content