Australian Standard English
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Australian Style has been adapted from a talk given by Susan Butler, publisher of the Macquarie Dictionary. The talks he gave to a colloquium on learning Standard Australian English at the Australian Linguistic Society conference (July 2010).Her talk is centered on identifying what is Australian Standard English? Butler identifies words which have been added to the vocabulary and now accepted as Australian Standard English (ASE) is generally accepted in the spoken word, but still frowned upon in the written form “and often come down to the particular likes and dislikes of the teacher.” (Butler, 2010, p. 2)She concludes by stating Australian Standard English is the English that “ produce when you avoid all the things that your teachers will mark as wrong, wrong, wrong”(Butler, 2010)
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Crowley looks at the importance of linguistics in culture. He quotes Foucault in particular the ‘power of discourse’. The search for linguistic unity and identity is one that is founded on acts of violence and depression” (Crowley, 2003, p. 8) and the victory of one dialect over another produces a hierarchy.
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This introductory chapter of this book identifies the need to bridge the gap between theory and practice of the English language. Knowledge of sentence structure, sound patterns, word formation and meaning deepens understanding of and provides tools to analyse distinctions in cultural literacies. Understanding that language varies and changes “systematically helps situate “standard” and “non-standard” varieties of English.”(Denham, 2010, p. 6)
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I was interested to know what information the Education Department of WA held on Standard Australian English I was pleased to find an article written about a program being run by a BroomePrimary school. The program is helping Aboriginal students to understand language, its phonetics and morphology. In doing so the creators believe teaching a language whilst valuing the ‘home talk’ is the key to its success. “When students are asking you when they can do the program next, you know that it is working”(Howie, 2004)
References
Butler, S. (2010). Australian Style Retrieved 18 May 2011, from
Crowley, T. (2003). Standard English and the Politics of Power. New York: Palgrave MacMillan.
Denham, K. (2010). Linguistics at School [electronic resource] : Language Awareness in Primary and Secondary Education. In: Leiden : Cambridge University Press, 2010.
Howie, K. (2004). Innovative language program for Aboriginal students at Broome Primary. [Media Statement].