Language Practices of Indigenous Children and Youth: The Transition from Home to School

Chapter 1. Going to school in a different world; Jane Simpson and Gillian Wigglesworth Section I. CURRICULUM Chapter 2. Curriculum as Knowledge System: The Warlpiri Theme Cycle; Samantha Disbray and Barbara Martin Chapter 3. Language transition(s): school responses to recent changes in language choice in a Northern Dene community (Canada); Dagmar Jung, Mark Klein and Sabine Stöll Chapter 4. From home to school in multilingual Arnhem Land: The development of Yirrkala School's bilingual curriculum; Gemma Morales, Jill Vaughan and Merrkiyawuy Ganambarr-Stubbs Chapter 5. Unbecoming standards through Ojibwe immersion: The wolf meets ma'iingan; Mary Hermes and Michelle Haskins Section II. MULTILINGUAL REPERTOIRES Chapter 6. Code-switching or code-mixing? Tiwi children's use of language resources in a multilingual environment; Aidan Wilson, Peter Hurst and Gillian Wigglesworth Chapter 7. Languaging their learning: How children work their language for classroom learning; Susan Poetsch Chapter 8. Language Practices of Mbya Guarani Children in a Community-Based Bilingual School; Nayalin Pinho Feller and Jill Vaughan Section III. CONTACT LANGUAGES Chapter 9. Dangerous conversations: Teacher-student interactions with unidentified English language learners; Denise Angelo and Catherine Hudson Chapter 10. Dis, dat and da other: variation in Aboriginal children's article and demonstrative use at school; Henry Fraser, Ilana Mushin, Felicity Meakins, and Rod Gardner.- Alyawarr children's use of two closely-related languages; Sally Dixon Section IV: LANGUAGE AS CULTURAL PRACTICE Chapter 12. Practicing Living and Being Hopi: Language and Cultural Practices of Contemporary Hopi Youth; Sheilah Nicholas Chapter 13. Learning a New Routine: Kaska Language Development and the Convergence of Styles; Barbra A. Meek Chapter 14. Beyond school: Digital cultural practice as a catalyst for language and literacy; Inge Kral and Sumathi Renganathan