What is it about?
In her journal article, Death by a Thousand Cuts: Indigenous Language Bilingual Education Programmes in the Northern Territory of Australia, 1972-1998, Christine Nicholls discusses how politically-driven purge of Northern Territory Aboriginal bilingual programmes has been detrimental for Aboriginal teachers, communities and most of all, school children.
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Why is it important?
If we care about bio-diversity, then we need to care equally for linguistic diversity on a global scale. See David Crystal's book Language Death for more - language death/extinction, like species death/extinction is AVOIDABLE....
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This page is a summary of: Death by a Thousand Cuts: Indigenous Language Bilingual Education Programmes in the Northern Territory of Australia, 1972–1998, International Journal of Bilingual Education and Bilingualism, March 2005, Taylor & Francis,
DOI: 10.1080/13670050508668604.
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