Language skills in the preschool period are an important indicator of early development and school readiness for children. However, little is known about the association between aspects of the ...

Source: spass/bigstockphoto What happens when 40 percent of a generation cannot function effectively at school? Signs are emerging that this may happen with the children who were 0 to 6 years old ...

SYDNEY (Reuters) - Aboriginal children should be forced to learn English to escape lives of poverty and inequality, said Australia's indigenous affairs minister. "Too many still only have a ...

Being taught an Aboriginal language at school has generally been associated with positive school outcomes for Aboriginal children but not adults. This study attempted to understand this discordance by ...

Carly Steele received funding from the Australian Government Research Training Program and the Australian Research Council Centre of Excellence for the Dynamics of Language to conduct this research as ...

A smartphone game designed by WA traditional owners to save their near-extinct language has been globally recognised for its social impact. "Nyiyaparli Widi" won five Anthem Awards, nominated ...

Since their launch in 2007, smartphones have become a pervasive part of everyday life that influences interactions between parents and children. Research indicates that while parents typically use ...

More and more phones, televisions, smart speakers, and cars are embedded with automated speech-recognition technologies that ...

Professor of Economics and Public Policy, ANU College of Arts and Social Sciences, Australian National University Emily Banks receives funding from the National Health and Medical Research Council of ...

Students at a NSW Central Coast preschool start their day talking about their feelings in Darkinjung, the local Aboriginal language. Darkinjung is the predominant First Nations group in the region, ...