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Language Immersion: Friend Or Enemy Of Indigenous Minorities?

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  22 July 2015

Stephen Harris
Stephen Harris*
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Faculty of Education, Northern Territory University
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‘Language immersion’ has been regarded with suspicion for roughly two decades by many educators wishing to be loyal to the goals of bilingual education in indigenous groups. In this paper I argue that we should not be suspicious of immersion in a generalised way as an approach to both first and second language teaching among these groups. Rather, we should define those conditions under which immersion might be dangerous and those under which it might be helpful to the language aspirations of indigenous minorities.

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The Australian Journal of Indigenous Education , Volume 22 , Issue 3 , October 1994 , pp. 16 - 23
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press or the authors 1994

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