Re-awakening Languages

'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.' -- John Henderson * The Australian Journal of Indigenous Education *

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.

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 Australias 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 teachers 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-nhau 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. E