Hostname: page-component-848d4c4894-2pzkn Total loading time: 0 Render date: 2024-05-21T02:37:44.670Z Has data issue: false hasContentIssue false
  • English
  • Français

Some Computer Strategies for Achieving Literacy in Australian Languages: The Yintarri Project

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  22 July 2015

Paul Dench
Paul Dench*
Affiliation:
Computers in Education Project Ministry of Education, Western Australia
Get access

Extract

Yintarri is a West Australian government community school situated at Coonana: 180Km due east of Kalgoorlie. It has about sixty children who enter school speaking Wangkatja, a Western Desert language. There is no formal bi-lingual program; the language of instruction being English. The Yintarri Project is an International Literacy Year (ILY) funded program which uses touch-sensitive boards with microcomputers to assist in the development of literacy in both Wangkatja and English. This is accomplished, at Yintarri, with Concept Keyboards and Acorn BBC microcomputers though the same facilities could be provided with all other major types of computer. The project won a major ILY Literacy Achievement Award for its ‘Outstanding Contribution to Literacy‘.

Type
Research Article
Information
The Australian Journal of Indigenous Education , Volume 19 , Issue 2 , May 1991 , pp. 3 - 15
Copyright
Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1991

Access options

Get access to the full version of this content by using one of the access options below. (Log in options will check for institutional or personal access. Content may require purchase if you do not have access.)

References

REFERENCES

Cummins, J., 1990?: Empowering Minority Students: a framework for intervention. A draft for Harvard Educational Review.Google Scholar
Dench, P., 1990: Using Computers to Achieve Literacy in Minority Lanuages, in McDougall, A., & Dowling, C. (Eds.), Computers in Education, Proceedings of the IFIP TC3 Fifth World Conference on Computers in Education, Elsevier Science Publishers, 639–643.Google Scholar
Dewsbury, A., 1989: Leaping Into Literacy-Instant Writing in Early Literacy. Hands On, Proceedings of the 7th Annual Conference, N.S.W. Computer Education Group.Google Scholar
Folds, F., 1986: Desirable Characteristics of Computer Courseware in Tribal Aboriginal Schools. The Aboriginal Child at School, 14, 3, 37–43.Google Scholar
Harris, S., 1989: Culture Boundaries, Culture Maintenancein-change, and Two-way Aboriginal Schools. The Aboriginal Child at School, 17, 5, 3–19.Google Scholar
Hudson, J., 1983: Grammatical and semantic aspects of Fitzroy Valley Kriol. Work Papers of SOL-AAB, Series A Vol. 8, Summer Institute of Linguistics.Google Scholar
Johnston, A., 1989: Integrated Language Development with the Concept Keyboard. LOGIN, The Journal of the Educational Computing Association of W.A. 3, 2, 26–29.Google Scholar
McDonald, H., 1986: Context and Strategies for Writing with Urban Aboriginal and Islander Students. The Aboriginal Child at School, 14, 2, 3–15.Google Scholar
McGregor, W., 1988: A survey of the language of the Kimberley Region. Australian Aboriginal Studies, 2, 90–102.Google Scholar
Michael, I., 1991: (in publication): First Steps with the Concept Keyboard: Users module, The First Steps Project, Ministry of Education, W.A.Google Scholar