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Attitudes of Primary School Australian Aboriginal Children to their Linguistic Codes

Year: 2002

Type: article

Abstract: This study examined the attitudes of 114 Nyungar Aboriginal school children toward Aboriginal English (AE) and Standard Australian English (SAE), and the attitudes they attributed to their teachers and peers. Students were generally positive about using AE at home and in the playground but negative about using SAE in those contexts. Students did not feel positive about using either AE or SAE in the classroom. Ethnolinguistic Identity Theory is used to explain the significant differences found in attitudes to the two linguistic codes of students, as well as the attitudes students perceived their teachers and peers to have.

Source: Journal of Language and Social Psychology

DOI: 10.1177/026192702237957

Authors: Nola Purdie, Rhonda Oliver, Glenys Collard, Judith Rochecouste

Institutions: Queensland University of Technology, Edith Cowan University

Language: English

Topic: Linguistic and Sociocultural Studies

Subfield: Linguistics and Language

Field: Social Sciences

Domain: Social Sciences

SDG: Quality education

Open Access status: bronze

OpenAlex ID: W1994387948

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Cites: 31

Cited by: 19

Related to: 10