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Watch Your Language, Eh?

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  22 July 2015

Christine Nicholls
Christine Nicholls*
Affiliation:
Flinders University of South Australia, Bedford Park, South Australia, 5042.
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Extract

The first and probably most important piece of advice that anyone can give to prospective teachers of Aboriginal children is to ‘watch your language’. Whether or not the children speak an Aboriginal language as their first language, a Creole or a Pidgin or a version of Aboriginal English, with standard English as either a second language or second dialect, opportunities for miss-communication and non-communication abound.

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Research Article
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The Australian Journal of Indigenous Education , Volume 22 , Issue 3 , October 1994 , pp. 5 - 12
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press or the authors 1994

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Eades, D. 1993 Aboriginal English, Pen Magazine, Primary English Teaching Association, N.S.W. Google Scholar