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Bilingual Education in South Australian Aboriginal Schools

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  14 March 2016

J.G. Coker
J.G. Coker*
Affiliation:
Department of Education, Adelaide. S.A.
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Extract

Australia is a member nation of the International Labour Organisation. Article 23 of the I.L.O. Convention concerning the Protection Integration of Indigenous and Other Tribal and Semi-Tribal Populations in Independent Countries reads:

Children belonging to populations concerned shall be taught to read and write in their mother tongue, or, where this is not practicable, in the language most commonly used by the group to which they belong.

Provision shall be made for a progressive transition from the mother tongue or the vernacular language to the mother language or to one of the official languages of the country.

Appropriate measures shall, as far as possible, be taken to preserve the mother tongue or the vernacular language.

Type
Research Report
Information
The Australian Journal of Indigenous Education , Volume 3 , Issue 5 , November 1975 , pp. 53 - 56
Copyright
Copyright © The Author(s) 1975

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