Abstracts Archive

With so many of the world's Indigenous languages at risk of loss, it is vital that we consider how children from such linguistic backgrounds can be supported both culturally and educationally. In this presentation we illustrate how the incorporation of home language, which includes Indigenous langua...

After migration, over three decades ago from their ancestral lands, the diaspora Maka (Matacoan) community of Itapua in Paraguay is striving for and resisting to maintain their indigenous language alive.Through collaborative and active participatory linguistic research, there is an attempt to regist...

The Northern Territory Bilingual Education Program was established in 1974 in remote Australia with ambitious goals. One was the development of literature and teaching resources in the 27 Indigenous languages represented in the program. This triggered the emergence and proliferation of new and innov...