http://www.qilac.org.au/easier-to-read-if-we%e2%80%99re-on-the-same-page/ Queensland Languages Advisory Committee Mon, 05 Apr 2010 23:41:46 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 http://www.qilac.org.au/easier-to-read-if-we%e2%80%99re-on-the-same-page/comment-page-1/#comment-9 Trevor Stockley Mon, 19 Jan 2009 03:06:13 +0000 http://www.qilac.org.au/?p=39#comment-9 All too true. The loss of Bilingual schools in the NT will mean that the relevance of literacy slips further away from the world of traditionally oriented Aboriginal people and will continue to be seen as something that is important to non-Indigenous people but has no role in the lives of (employed or unemployed) Indigenous youth. These NT languages are literally the last fully spoken languages which are passed onto the children in the next generation. The last ones left in Australia! So we are losing one of the most important factors of relevancy in literacy to Indigenous language speakers. The fact that the literature is in your language. All too true. The loss of Bilingual schools in the NT will mean that the relevance of literacy slips further away from the world of traditionally oriented Aboriginal people and will continue to be seen as something that is important to non-Indigenous people but has no role in the lives of (employed or unemployed) Indigenous youth. These NT languages are literally the last fully spoken languages which are passed onto the children in the next generation. The last ones left in Australia! So we are losing one of the most important factors of relevancy in literacy to Indigenous language speakers. The fact that the literature is in your language.

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