DEVELOPING TWO-WAY
BIDIALECTAL EDUCATION
HANDOUT - THE STUDENT SPEECH SAMPLE
A teacher has brought the following transcription of an Aboriginal student's contribution at news time. He/she is concerned about this student's oral language skills. What advice would you give the teacher about the student's oral language and language use in general?
Me an my cousin Joanna and her sister Jodie and Bradley and Nickie went to Bennet Creek for camp. Bradley stoled our thongs and we was chasin im an e slidded down dis bank like dat dere. An den dese boys they was throwing rocks at us dey dey dey throwed em.. dey threw em at um.. car an den dey run home an we tol is mum they threw em at im. An all us h'Aboriginal kids is goin t play baskball wiv nother school. Chantelle's a good goalie e got tweny goals las time. Thas all.
