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Publication details [#43128]

Nicholls, Christine. 2005. Death by a Thousand Cuts: Indigenous Language Bilingual Education Programmes in the Northern Territory of Australia, 1972–1998. International Journal of Bilingual Education and Bilingualism 8 (2/3) : 160–177.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

bilingual education | language maintenance | language policy | literacy | primary school

Language as a subject

Languages, Australian aboriginal

Place, Publisher

Multilingual Matters

Journal WWW

www.multilingual-matters.com/multi/onlinej.asp

Annotation

This paper discusses the official closure of the former Indigenous Australian Northern Territory bilingual education programmes in 1998, counter to the wishes of the overwhelming majority of the Aboriginal community.