Language Practices of Indigenous Children and Youth

1. Going to School in a Different World
Gillian Wigglesworth, Jane Simpson

Part I. Curriculum

2. Curriculum as Knowledge System: The Warlpiri Theme Cycle
Samantha Disbray, Barbara Martin

3. Language Transition(s): School Responses to Recent Changes in Language Choice in a Northern Dene Community (Canada)
Dagmar Jung, Mark Klein, Sabine Stoll

4. From Home to School in Multilingual Arnhem Land: The Development of Yirrkala School’s Bilingual Curriculum
Gemma Morales, Jill Vaughan, Merrkiyawuy Ganambarr-Stubbs

5. Unbecoming Standards Through Ojibwe Immersion: The Wolf Meets Ma’iingan
Mary Hermes, Michelle Haskins

Part II. Multilingual Repertoires

6. Code-Switching or Code-Mixing? Tiwi Children’s Use of Language Resources in a Multilingual Environment
Aidan Wilson, Peter Hurst, Gillian Wigglesworth

7. Languaging Their Learning: How Children Work Their Languages for Classroom Learning
Susan Poetsch

8. Language Practices of Mbya Guarani Children in a Community-Based Bilingual School
Nayalin Pinho Feller, Jill Vaughan

Part III. Contact Languages

9. Dangerous Conversations: Teacher-Student Interactions with Unidentified English Language Learners
Denise Angelo, Catherine Hudson

10. Dis, That and Da Other: Variation in Aboriginal Children’s Article and Demonstrative Use at School
Henry Fraser, Ilana Mushin, Felicity Meakins, Rod Gardner

11. Alyawarr Children’s Use of Two Closely Related Languages
Sally Dixon

Part IV. Language as Cultural Practice

12. Practicing Living and Being Hopi: Language and Cultural Practices of Contemporary Hopi Youth
Sheilah E. Nicholas

13. Learning a New Routine: Kaska Language Development and the Convergence of Styles
Barbra A. Meek

14. Beyond School: Digital Cultural Practice as a Catalyst for Language and Literacy
Inge Kral, Sumathi Renganathan

Keywords: Linguistics, Applied Linguistics, Sociolinguistics, Austronesian Languages, Ameri-Indian Languages, Multilingualism