Language skills are essential to a child’s ability to communicate and develop. These skills enable children to engage with other people and learn from their surroundings and in the classroom. Language ...

Carly Steele received funding from the Australian Government Research Training Program and the Australian Research Council Centre of Excellence for the Dynamics of Language to conduct this research as ...

SYDNEY (Reuters) - Aboriginal children should be forced to learn English to escape lives of poverty and inequality, said Australia's indigenous affairs minister. "Too many still only have a ...

Students at a NSW Central Coast preschool start their day talking about their feelings in Darkinjung, the local Aboriginal language. Darkinjung is the predominant First Nations group in the region, ...

Source: spass/bigstockphoto What happens when 40 percent of a generation cannot function effectively at school? Signs are emerging that this may happen with the children who were 0 to 6 years old ...

Once forbidden from speaking their local language, a group of Indigenous elders in WA's south-west have authored and illustrated a children's book written in Noongar language in a bid to keep their ...