Children's Language and Multilingualism : Indigenous Language Use at Home and School (Paperback)

Introduction, Jane Simpson (University of Sydney, Australia) & Gillian Wigglesworth (University of Melbourne, Australia) 1. The language learning environment of preschool children in Indigenous communities, Jane Simpson (University of Sydney, Australia) and Gillian Wigglesworth (University of Melbourne, Australia) 2. Questions about questions, Karin Moses (University of Melbourne, Australia) and Colin Yallop (Latrobe University, Australia) 3. Storytelling styles: A study of adult-child interactions in narrations of a picture book in Tennant Creek, Samantha Disbray (University of Melbourne, Australia) 4. 'I don't talk story like that': On the social meaning of children's sand stories at Ernabella, Ute Eickelkamp (Charles Darwin University, Australia) 5. The collaborative construction of knowledge in a traditional context, Elanor Reeders (Aboriginal Resource and Development Service) 6. The silence of the frogs: Dysfunctional discourse in the 'English-only' Aboriginal classroom, Karin Moses (University of Melbourne, Australia) and Gillian Wigglesworth (University of Melbourne, Australia) 7. Children, language and literacy in the Ngaanyatjarra Lands, Inge Kral (Australian National University) and Elizabeth Marrkilyi Ellis 8. Issues in the assessment of children's oral skills, Caroline Jones (University of Wollongong, Australia) and Joy Campbell Nangari 9. Language Difference or Language Disorder, Judy Gould 10. Indigenous children and conductive hearing loss, Ann Galloway (Edith Cowan University, Australia) 11. Language mixing and language shifts in Indigenous Australia, Patrick McConvell (AIATSIS, Australia) 12. Children's Production of their heritage language and a new mixed language, Carmel O'Shannessy (University of Michigan, USA) 13. Unravelling Languages: Multilingualism and language contact in Kalkaringi, Felicity Meakins (University of Manchester, UK) Authors index Languages index Places index General index