Australian Aboriginal English and links with culture
Abstract
Indigenous Australians once spoke up to 300 languages but today, for the most part, speak varieties of Aboriginal English and/or creole. Aboriginal English is a post‐pidgin/post‐creole dialect, distinct from Australian English in phonology, grammar, lexicon, and semantics and showing both formal and conceptual continuity with Indigenous languages as well as with pidgin and creole. The TESOL profession in Australia recognizes that, for speakers of Aboriginal English in the context of an education system based on Standard Australian English (SAE), a bidialectal (English as an Additional Dialect) approach needs to be taken, drawing on linguistic and cultural resources from both Indigenous and mainstream speech communities.
Document Type
Book Chapter
Date of Publication
2018
Location of the Work
USA
Publisher
Wiley
School
School of Arts and Humanities
RAS ID
26246
Copyright
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Comments
Malcolm, I. G. (2018). Australian Aboriginal English and Links With Culture. In The TESOL Encyclopedia of English Language Teaching (eds J. I. Liontas, T. International Association and M. DelliCarpini). Available here