EDAB161 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Percy Trezise, Australian Aboriginal English, Stolen Generations
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Refer to language as "asleep", waiting to be awoken. "while ever the people who belong to a language still exist, that language continues to have a life. We need the teachers of australia to work with us to help us wake up our languages" Language and culture has taken on a different shape and form due to colonisation and genocide. "teaching an australian language to your students helps develop their self esteem, engagement with education and their overall well being" Feel culturally and spiritually diminished without knowledge of language. "some people say that speaking our languages again is the highest priority for communities, more important even than the chronic housing and health issues many face. " Cultural confusion- using standard respectful aboriginal english in standard english. "policies to assimilate aboriginal people into the mainstream. There was to be no place for our cultural practices and languages.