Aboriginal Languages in Education

Did you know that a lot of kids in schools across Australia are learning an Aboriginal language local to their area?

We’ll speak with one school that’s having great success with its Aboriginal language program soon, but today we’re starting at the beginning by speaking with a South Australian university professor who helped develop the national framework for the use of languages in education, an important milestone in the history of languages education in Australia, the first time that Aboriginal languages were included as part of the national curriculum.

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