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An Aboriginal Child Learning to Write

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  22 July 2015

Chris Walton
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In 1985 there was a Combined Associations Conference held in Darwin. As part of that conference Ann Harrison (a TESL lecturer at Darwin Institute of Technology) and I prepared a workshop to explore some issues concerned with Aboriginal children learning to write in English when it is not their mother tongue. In that workshop we looked at samples of Northern Territory Aboriginal children’s writing in English to consider:

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Research Article
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The Australian Journal of Indigenous Education , Volume 14 , Issue 2 , May 1986 , pp. 16 - 25
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1986

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