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Educational failure or success: Aboriginal Children's Non-standard English Utterances

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Dixon, Sally

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Monash University Publishing

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Within the Australian education system, Aboriginal students' use of non-standard English features is often viewed simplistically as evidence of non-attainment of literacy and oral-English milestones. One reason for this is the widespread use of assessment

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Australian Review of Applied Linguistics (online edition)

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2037-12-31