Presenters Line-up
Rediscovering Identity Through Language, Through Song |
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Presented by Genevieve Campbell and members from the Wanagtunga Strong Women's GroupPresentation type: |
The Tiwi Strong Women's group have been pro-active in their community in using language and, in particular, song language, to engage Tiwi children with their culture and identity. We will explain how these women who are respected elders, leaders and mentors in their community are using the language "re-discovered" in repatriated ethnographic song recordings in music projects aimed at Tiwi children. Learning the old language, the poetry and the stories becomes easy and fun when it is part of making your own rap or hip hop song. In language AND cool. That's what these ladies are here to share.Genevieve Campbell (co-presenter) has documented this process and is working with the women (and senior gentlemen singers and elders) to preserve the language of songs recorded over the past 100 years. We will show how these recordings are being used both to create a written resource preserving an endangered language and as source material for sampling in to modern "dance music" created by the Tiwi kids themselves.
Click here to see more about the Wanagtunga Strong Women's Group. |
Singing the Train, Seeing the Song - Nyamal Language |
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Presented by Mary Anne Jebb, Nora Cook and Julie Walker from Wangka Maya Pilbara Aboriginal Language CentrePresentation type: |
Singing the Train is a permanent exhibition and a travelling community resource that tells the story through a Nyamal language song of the first railway that ran between Port Hedland and Marble Bar in Western Australia’s Pilbara region from 1910 to 1951. With the input and permissions from all respective parties, the song opens a window onto a unique way of telling history through song. The presentation will include two films, one of them ‘Seeing The Song’, includes aligned text in two languages backed by a waveform visual image with the sound of the song. The multi-media exhibit with sound and film, historical photographs and text panels, provides an accessible introduction for a wide audience to Aboriginal song and language translation, as well as creating a resource from historical recordings for community language revitalization and education.
Click here to see more about the Singing the Train exibition. |
Kids' Own Community Publishing Studios and their role in the Reconciliation Process |
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Presented by Myles Russell-Cook and Jo Molloy from Kids' Own PublishingPresentation type: |
This presentation will offer an overview of the Kids’ Own way and will examine issues around decolonising business practices under a Design Anthropological Framework. Kids’ Own Publishing actively works to create processes that enable respectful dialogue between Indigenous and non- Indigenous people and sees that the contributions of all people are properly recognised and remunerated. You will also get to experience a hands on book making activity that will demonstrate the Kids’ Own philosophy in action.
Click here to see more about Kids' Own Publishing and what they do. |
Create Your Own Language Version |
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Presented by Micheal Roseth from italk library and Cathy Bow from the Living Archive of Aboriginal LanguagesPresentation type: |
italk library specialises in helping their clients communicate information with culturally and linguistically diverse communities by transforming that information into story form and making it freely available on their website, and beyond. This presentation will showcase the upcoming app 'Make Your Own Language'. The iPad app lets you add your own language to existing stories. Using books from the Living Archive of Aboriginal Languages or the italk library, workshop participants with their own iPads can create dynamic talking books in their own language.
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An open and shut case? Protecting rights and allowing access to Indigenous language materials |
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Panel discussion moderated by Cathy Bow from Charles Darwin UniversityPresentation type: |
The creation and archiving of language materials in digital form raises interesting issues for copyright and intellectual property. In attempting to balance the rights of creators with the opportunities afforded by public access to these important materials, careful consideration of ICIP protocols and traditional approaches to ownership of knowledge and stories needs to be negotiated with the Western legal way of viewing these issues, and the ways in which the technology can be used to facilitate appropriate outcomes. Panellists will be invited to share their experiences and discuss various approaches and issues arising as these cultural and legal complexities are navigated.
Click here to see more about Living Archive of Aboriginal Languages at Chalres Darwin University. |
Learner-Friendly Language Teaching |
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Presented by Julie Long and Michael Jarrett from Muurrbay Aboriginal Language and Culture Co-OperativePresentation type: |
Participants will learn some Gumbaynggirr language via several approaches that Muurrbay has found really successful. These have been influenced by Accelerated Second Language Acquisition by Stephen Greymorning, Total Physical Response by James Asher, using songs and Elder's stories to encourage learning as well as the more traditional 'grammar translation' method. Come along, learn some language, and learn how to pass on that language at the same time!
Click here to see more inforamtion on Muurrbay Language and Culture Cop-Operative |
Language in Song |
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Presented by Joy Bonner, Leonora Adidi, Ethel Munn, Bridget Priman, Melinda Holden and Faith Baisden from QILACPresentation type: |
The members of the Queensland Indigenous Languages Advisory Committee (QILAC) will work with you to write a song in your language and teach it to the rest of the group. Together we will choose one of two of the songs and practice them with a choir master for performance in the Australia’s Got Language, talent contest.
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AppBooks Platform - building literacy and language based software |
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Presented by Liam Campbell and Warren Smith from AppBooksPresentation type: |
Liam and Warren will share the activities building cross-platform literacy and language software that is based on their AppBooks platform. The platform has been used to create dictionaries, a bilingual book builder and interactive language learning programs, including: - Anindilyakwa and Pitjantjatjara/Yankunytjatjara apps with the ALNF They will also provide an opportunity to get hands on with the AppBooks book builder and/or other software that they have built.
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wadamba-nganjin wurrung |
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Presented by Paul Paton and Emma Hutchinson from the Victorian Corporation for Aboriginal LanguagesPresentation type: |
Over the past 12 months Victorian Aboriginal Corporation for Languages (VACL) has undertaken three significant projects to create these digital resources resulting in 16 new Apps. Each project has incorporated different techniques and approaches, including the digitisation of existing resources, writing new stories, adapting traditional creation stories, hosting workshops, creating word lists & categories, translating existing resources, using language databases, creating new artwork including photography, illustration & design and recording audio & narration. This presentation will demonstrate the completed Apps and highlight some of the key processes in the production and management to create these digital resources.
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First Steps on the Ngunawal Language Revitalisation Journey |
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Presented by Michael Walsh from AIATSISPresentation type: |
This presentation will share a research project driven by a community of Aboriginal people, the Ngunawal, in south eastern Australia who have joined the growing movement in our country to ‘wake up’ our sleeping languages. Unfortunately the documentation for this language is relatively meagre, much of it early manuscript sources and no more than a few minutes of audio-recording.
Click here to see more about the Ngunawal Language Revitalisation Journey |
Language Preservation and 3D Animations - Monash Country Lines Archive |
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Presented by Dr Shannon Faulkhead, Professor John Bradley and Brent McKee from Monash Indigenous Centre, Monash UniversityPresentation type: |
The Monash Country Lines Archive (MCLA) is working with 3D animation as a method intergenerational knowledge sharing, keeping language alive, or to reconnect language and it’s people. Through the development of partnerships with Indigenous communities across Australia, MCLA is using cutting edge 3D animation technologies to assist in the preservation of their history, knowledge, poetry, songs, performance and language. These animations provide material for Elders and younger generations to sit together and share knowledge. The affective responses to seeing technology re-represent back to them stories that have deep cultural resonances, has resulted in growing interest worldwide. This has reinforced their optimism that through the use of technology this project will support Indigenous peoples and their languages. MCLA find this use of 3D animation as ground breaking and exciting and they hope that you do too.
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How Do You Fill The Gaps In The Language? |
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Presented by John Hobson from the University of SydneyPresentation type: |
As more and more groups try to revive their language on of the problems they can face is the number of gaps in the dictionary – either because the old words have been forgotten and never written down, or the things they want to talk about these days are new. For groups who choose to solve this problem by filling the gaps, it can be difficult to know where to start, especially if they can’t find examples within their language. This session will take people through some of the strategies used by Australian and other languages to create words. People can then make their own decisions about which ones they might want to use, if they choose to go down a similar path.
Click here to see more about filling the gaps in the languages |
Warumungu Digital Stories - New Technology for Old Recordings |
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Presented by Samantha Disbray with Rosemary Plummer, Michael Jones, Sandra Morrison & Jane Simpson working on a Warumungu Language ProjectPresentation type: |
The team in this presentation will share their efforts working with sound recordings made in 1966 with strong Warumungu speakers who have almost all now passed away. Their goal is to make material available and accessible to younger Warumungu people in different formats. They will discuss how they are developing Warumungu materials from old recordings, using modern technology so that families can hear stories and language from old people. |
Learning From Experience |
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Presented by Vicki Couzens, Christina Eira and Tonya Stebbins from the Meeting Point Research Team based at VACLPresentation type: |
Out of several years' research into the processes and products of language revival, the Meeting Point research team (based at V.A.C.L.) has produced a series of 'Fact sheets' on different topics. These fact sheets highlight different pathways through language revival taken by different communities across the eastern states. Each fact sheet includes either a range of views for a complex issue in language revival, or a self-contained workshop that you can run in your community for that topic. The workshops assist people to try out some of the different ways of doing things that have been successful for others. In this presentation, they will share some of the project fact sheets and give you the experience of trying out one or more of the mini workshops. The idea is that you can then take these mini workshops home to use in your communities.
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What is Indigenous Digital Excellence? |
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Presented by April Long and Grant Young from the National Centre of Indidgenous ExcellencePresentation type: |
In this discussion, staff from the National Centre of Indigenous Excellence will be sharing their learning journey and propose some potential responses, from their perspective and experiences, as well as facilitating a discussion to engage participants in the ideas surrounding "Indigenous Digital Excellence”: what it means to them, and what it can mean for our communities. Through collaboration and knowledge sharing, their hope is that all participants in this session will take away key strategies and ideas that will equip them to strengthen their mission, value proposition and ultimately, more effectively achieve their goals. Building upon the work and concepts embodied in the IDX Vision discussion paper available at: http://idx.org.au/get-involved/national-strategy this session will explore: * IDX as a concept—what is it?
Click here for more information on the National Centre of Indigenous Excellence |
The Diploma in Indigenous Language Work: Its Development, Purpose and Implications for Aboriginal Language Workers, Their Work and Their Communities |
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Presented by Ganesh Koramannil from the School of Indigenous Knowledges and Public Policy at Charles Darwin UniversityPresentation type: |
The School of Indigenous Knowledges and Public Policy (SIKPP) at Charles Darwin University is responsible for the provision and academic management of courses related to Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander studies, Indigenous languages and linguistics, natural and cultural resource management, governance, advocacy, and creative writing. Some of these courses are delivered through a higher education delivery partnership with Batchelor Institute through the Australian Centre for Indigenous Knowledges and Education (ACIKE). The presentation will introduce to the new Diploma in Indigenous Language Work, designed to support the basic linguistic and academic skills and competence that would empower Aboriginal Language Workers and enable quality contributions from them.
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SharingStories’ Language Lightbox: Holding, Sharing and Maintaining Indigenous Language |
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Presented by Taz Miller from the Sharing Stories FoundationPresentation type: |
This presentation is about the SharingStories’ Language Lightbox, a newly-developed audio-visual language and cultural repository developed with the Paakantji community of NSW, designed for scalability and adaptation by other language groups and communities. The Lightbox’s functionality includes capacity to link to cultural materials and an introductory video at the beginning of each language module which includes background information about that language and its importance from the perspective of the language speakers involved. The Language Lightbox has capture and display capability, functions offline and is built in iOS for use on iPad and iPhone. It has been designed to serve as an ‘easy-to-use and populate’ audio-visual dictionary which, with effective implementation, can be owned, controlled and continuously populated with written and spoken language words as well as related images and cultural material, by communities themselves.
Click here for more information on the Sharing Stories Foundation |
Te Marautanga o Te Aho Matua - An Indigenous Model of Curriculum |
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Presented by Kati Mako and Kura Raureti from Te Runanga Nui o Nga Kura Kaupapa Maori o Aotearoa Inc.Presentation type: |
This presentation will share a collection of teaching modules developed to uphold Maori philosophy 'Te Aho Matua' over the last almost 30 years of kura kaupapa Maori (schools that teach according to Maori concepts). The principles of this curriculum are to perpetuate Maori knowledge systems, including the language as a valid approach to teaching and learning for the 21st century and beyond, and to produce children who are loving, respectful, innovative and collaborative. |
Rediscovering & Illuminating Indigenous Languages in Libraries |
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Presented by Melissa Jackson from the State Library of New South Wales and Shannon Sutton from the National Library of AustraliaPresentation type: |
To assist in language revival, the State Library of NSW, in partnership with Rio Tinto, embarked on a significant venture: the “Rediscovering Indigenous Languages” project.
This project aimed to identify and make accessible materials in its collections relating to Indigenous Australian languages. Internationally renowned linguist Dr Michael Walsh was engaged to dig through over 12 kilometres of manuscripts to discover exactly what is held in the Library’s collection, finding more than 100 language collections that he deemed especially important.
Following their tremendous success, the National Library undertook a similar investigation as a graduate project and identified over thirty manuscript collections containing language material. Both projects seek to reconnect Indigenous Australians and the wider Australian community with word lists and vocabularies relating to the first languages of Australia.
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Indigenous Languages at University |
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Presented by Jane Simpson from the ARC Centre of Excellence for the Dynamics of Languages, Australian National UniversityPresentation type: |
Indigenous languages are rarely taught at university-level in Australia, and yet the opportunity to study Indigenous languages at an advanced level is very important. First-language speakers of Indigenous languages may want to enrich the knowledge of their first language through study, just as English speaking university students can enrich their English language skills through studying English literature. People who want to revive and re-create their languages may wish to focus on developing the language and understanding the old materials through a university-level course, just as people of Welsh heritage can study Welsh at some universities. However, people living in rural and remote communities often do not have access to these courses, and it is hard to find information about which languages are taught at which university. This presentation will outline some of the challenges, and describe an attempt to address them through the proposed University Languages Portal Australia (ULPA), to be run through the Languages and Cultures Network of Australian Universities (LCNAU). This portal aims to make university-level courses in all languages, including Indigenous languages, more visible and thus more accessible to students across Australia.
Click here for more information on ARC Centre of Excellence for the Dynamics of Languages |
The Role of the Intermediary Organisation in the Interrelationship Between Aboriginal Well-being ICTs |
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Presented by Darlene Hoskins-McKenzie, Jodie Maymuru and Gadj Maymuru from Sharing CulturePresentation type: |
Of recent times, ICTs have contributed to the increased uptake of Aboriginal language revitalisation and maintenance programs, in communities and schools. The purpose of this presentation is to examine the role of the 'intermediary organisation' in 'cultural preservation, cultural communication and strengthening identity' (Vaughn 2011:10). This paper will primarily focus on informal learning environments, situated on-country, driven by individuals and community desire to learn and maintain their language. A key component of the presentation will explore the intermediary organisations' perception of 'Aboriginal well-being', as a opposed to those set out in academic journals, and as identified in their work with Aboriginal individual and communities. |
Young Champions |
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Presented by the Young Champions participants and Sally BaisdenPresentation type: |
Members of the Young Champions group will take you through short videos they have produced from their country and discuss goals for the future. |
takamuna tapilti - Tasmania's palawa kani Gets Going With Digital |
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Presented by Tessa Atto, Daisy Allan, Rosetta Thomas, and Annie Reynolds, from the Tasmanian Aboriginal CentrePresentation type: |
The palawa kani Language Program team will describe their experiences of first, devising and producing two digital APPs and then, building them into existing and new language activities in Aboriginal Children’s Centres, youth programs and community activities. Outcomes of the process and pros and cons of the tools will be discussed. Participants will be invited to use the APPs and give feedback on them, and to share their own digital experiences in open discussion time. |
Angkety Map - Review of Digital Tools for Language Work |
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Presented by Paul Paton and Benedict Foley from First Languages AustraliaPresentation type: |
For the past year First Languages Australia has been talking to people around the country and internationally about the digital tools available for language work. This session will give an overview of the findings and help people come to an understanding of how to identify the best tools for their situation. |
National Languages Map |
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Presented by Melinda Holden, Bridget Priman, Ben Foley and Carolyn Barker from First Languages AustraliaPresentation type: |
First Languages Australia has been working with language centres around the county to collate and share their language maps on a national map. The map shows all languages with preferred community spellings and groups languages in families (where appropriate). Come check your language is correctly represented and learn why the grouping of languages into families is important and can be helpful in your language work. |
Yalka Loitjba (Talk and Tea) |
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Presented by Merle Miller and Belinda Briggs from the Yorta Yorta Nation Aboriginal CorporationPresentation type: |
The Yalka Loitjba (Talk and Tea) Project will provide a presentation on the Yorta Yorta Language Revival Project, the Educational sphere of the program and the various project outcomes that are being driven by community. They will also provide an audio visual snapshot of the community growth of language revival. |
Kuluru Marni - Sounds Good |
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Presented by Stephen Goldsmith, Taylor Power-Smith and Paul Finlay from the Kaurna Warra Pintyanthi Aboriginal CorporationPresentation type: |
The Kaurna Warra Karrpathi (KWP) has created and produced print, video and radio resources to promote and encourage the use of the Kaurna language amongst members of the Kaurna community and the broader population. The KWP media team will showcase their current Youtube channels and in particular the new 'Kaurna for Kids' channel featuring the animal puppet show 'Pirtawardli'. By exploiting humour and varying levels of knowledge of the Kourna language on the part of the characters in the show, they are able to effectively introduce the Kaurna language to an English-speaking audience. |
From Zero to Fifty: Using technology to bring Yugambeh language from lost to fluent in five years. |
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Presented by Rory O'Connor from the Yugambeh MuseumPresentation type: |
30 years ago Aboriginal community members approached linguists at the University of Queensland to find out how they could record the Yugambeh language before it was lost.
The message they received was clear.“Forget it. Your language is dead. Go and study Bundjalung (which is a language to the south). “
Undaunted, they persevered.This year Yugambeh Museum is launching a bold plan to create 50 fluent speakers within 5 years, as part of an ongoing program to have 500 speakers (technical fluency) within the next decade.
It is an approach that would have been impossible without the technological advances of the last five years. And it will capitalise on the ever-increasing bond between youth and technology.This presentation will include: • Conception – the embryonic stages of language revival. • Creating Access for learning language, using technology. • Tomorrow’s classroom.
Technology is expanding exponentially. As community leaders our role is to keep this energy harnessed and relevant to the cause of language. |
Learner-Driven Intergenerational Language Learning Course for Multiple Languages at the Santa Fe Indian School |
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Presented by Patricia Sandoval, Virginia Velasquez, Dominik Morning Dove, Jacob Valdez from Santa Fe Indian SchoolPresentation type: |
Santa Fe Indian School is a tribally controlled residential school governed by a Board of Trustees appointed by the 19 Pueblo Governors of New Mexico. It serves the 22 tribes within the State and a smaller population of native students from throughout the country. Due to the variety of languages spoken at the school which includes the 5 language groups of the Pueblos (Keres, Tewa, Towa, Tiwa, and Zuni), the Navajo, and the Apache, it is difficult to find language teachers who are certified to teach all these language in a school setting.
The presenters, Grant Project Director and Program Coordinator, applied for and received a grant from ANA to offer a language program for multiple languages using mentors from the communities proficient in the tribal language. The key criteria was that students must be self-motivated and demonstrate a commitment to learn their language.
The presenters will:
1 ) briefly discuss the State and Tribal language collaborations.
2 ) the SFIS-ANA language grant highlighting the grant objectives, methodology, and data results for the first year of implementation including highlights and challenges.
3 ) showcase student work demonstrating their journey to language competence via student videos, power point presentations, journal entries, and student-generated materials.
4 ) request audience participation of approximately 10 volunteers (5 mentors and 5 learners) who will engage in the methodology to demonstrate for the larger audience how the program is implemented to further language growth and community knowledge. |
Reviving Gumbaynggirr in a High School |
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Presented by Lawrence Hancock from Woolgoolga High SchoolPresentation type: |
Gumbaynggirr has now been taught as the 100 hour LOTE to all Year 7 students since 2013 (180 students each year) at Woolgoolga High School. Woolgoolga High is unique with 8% Aboriginal and 8% Indian Punjabi Sikh attendance.
The presentation will look at whiteboard resources/language course (a work in progress) What works and what hasn't. This is teaching the language in a formal class room situation to a majority of non-Aboriginal students.
Also classroom teaching and pedagogy, especially the use of songs - both Jo and Larry sing in a Gumbaynggirr language group. Delegates will be taught some song and language.
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Field Recording Workshop |
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Presented by Allon Silove from Muso's CornerPresentation type: |
This presentation will show the audience how to easily record conversations, stories and songs using digital technology. Digital technology now delivers very small and portable devices capable of recording high-definition audio in any location.
Learn how to record and capture conversations, stories and songs wherever you may be.
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How SLQ is using technology to support Community Language Revival |
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Presented by Desmond Crump and Rose Warsow from the State Library of QueenslandPresentation type: |
This presentation will provide an overview of a range of State Library activities, including training, workshops and resource development that incorporate technology and new media to support the revival of language in Queensland’s communities.
The State Library builds capacity in communities to manage their language revival as well as increasing the accessibility and discoverability of materials in the library collections. Through technology/new media State Library has conducted workshops in communities to introduce them to ways to record, document and store their language knowledge as well as generate resources for language learning/teaching. State Library also utilises technology to improve community access to the collections through interactive resources as well as online materials.
The presentation will focus on a number of languages where State Library has worked closely with the community, partnering with Indigenous Language Centres, Indigenous Knowledge Centres and other community organisations. |
Bundjalung Language App |
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Presented by Tali Abraham, Virginia Ingham, Aunty Irene Harrington and Uncle Greg Harrington from Gnibi College of Indigenous Australian Peoples, Southern Cross University
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Gnibi College of Indigenous Australian Peoples, Southern Cross University engaged Bundjalung language holders and Elders in designing a language learning program that could be easily shared with pre-schools, schools and Aboriginal families in the Lismore Region.
The project involved Bundjalung artists to develop the visual representation of objects for the Bundjalung word lists (derived from the NSW North Coast Aboriginal Studies Kit in the early 1980s) and the correct pronunciation of corresponding Bundjalung words recorded by Elders.
Language acquisition design was employed in this development partnership to produce a Bundjalung Language App and corresponding language learning games that can be accessed on school smart boards, iPads and personal media devices.
The ongoing development of the App can be edited and word lists expanded with new recordings from the various dialect groups of the Bundjalung nation.
This App can be utilised by other Aboriginal groups who wish to produce their own language recordings. The APP also includes tests for language revitalisation. |
