Omschrijving
Presents a survey of the linguistic issues facing children growing up in indigenous communities. This book illustrates the linguistic diversity that can be found in such communities. It examines a wide range of factors which relate to the divergence between home and school language for children growing up in indigenous multilingual communities.
Title mention in Times Higher Education, January 2010.
A volume which should be of interest to researchers working in a number of research areas, not only the area of child language... This volume is a welcome addition to the library of any researcher interested in language issues in indigenous communities.
Jane Simpson is Senior Lecturer in the Department of Linguistics, University of Sydney, Australia. Gillian Wigglesworth is Associate Professor and Head of the School of Languages and Linguistics, University of Melbourne, Australia.