BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//wp-events-plugin.com//7.2.3//EN TZID:Australia/Perth X-WR-TIMEZONE:Australia/Perth BEGIN:VEVENT UID:50@watesol.org.au DTSTART;TZID=Australia/Perth:20220512T170000 DTEND;TZID=Australia/Perth:20220512T183000 DTSTAMP:20220409T055810Z URL:https://watesol.org.au/events/bringing-indigenous-contact-languages-in to-the-classroom/ SUMMARY:Bringing Indigenous contact languages into the classroom DESCRIPTION:Join Dr Carly Steele of Curtin University for this fully-online event on Thursday 12 May 2022 at 5pm. Free for members and $15 for non-me mbers. A link to join will be sent to registered participants' email prior to the event.\n\n \;\n\nAbstract\n\nMost Indigenous peoples live in u rban and regional settings across Australia and no longer speak their trad itional languages fluently. Instead contact languages\, creoles and dialec ts\, are widely spoken. Little is known about these languages especially i n educational settings where the first languages of many Indigenous childr en remain “invisible” to educators (Sellwood &\; Angelo\, 2013). In this talk\, I present findings from my PhD research conducted in far nort h Queensland where I examined the Standard Australian English (SAE) langua ge learning needs of First Nations children who speak contact languages. I n response\, I co-taught a series of three lessons using contrastive langu age analysis to teach some of the language differences between the local l anguage and SAE. Qualitative sociolinguistic discourse analysis was employ ed to examine student responses. Findings suggest it is possible that acqu iring two closely related languages presents a greater challenge for the l earner\, not just in terms of noticing the linguistic differences\, but al so for the complex social\, cultural\, historical and political factors th at underpin how nonstandard and standard languages are positioned in educa tional settings. I advocate for a critical language awareness approach for teaching SAE to be adopted for students from Year 5 onwards. From this pe rspective\, it is not enough to bring Indigenous contact languages into th e classroom\, we must engage in critical conversations about language and power. Finally\, I consider future directions and the constraints faced pu tting these approaches into practice.\n\n \;\n\nSpeaker information\n\ nCarly Steele is a Lecturer and early career researcher in the School of Education at Curtin University\, Perth having previously held a Lecturer p osition at James Cook University in Townsville. She completed her PhD at t he University of Melbourne in 2021 which explored the role of language aw areness and the use of contrastive analysis for teaching Standard Australi an English as an additional language and/or dialect to Aboriginal and Tor res Strait Islander students in primary school classrooms. Carly coordinat es and teaches professional experience units in postgraduate and undergrad uate Initial Teacher Education (ITE) courses and draws on a range of res earch and teaching experiences across Australia which include positions in remote WA and NT\, Far North Queensland and Sydney.\n\n \;\n\n END:VEVENT BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:Australia/Perth X-LIC-LOCATION:Australia/Perth BEGIN:STANDARD DTSTART:20210512T170000 TZOFFSETFROM:+0800 TZOFFSETTO:+0800 TZNAME:AWST END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE END:VCALENDAR