Language Death In Australia

DRAFT OF LITERATURE REVIEW

The literature review will investigate The Language Death in Australia. Language death is an important issue in global society and a serious problem throughout the world. In recent years, this issue is raising more stronger, Australia is a nation which is facing language death, Australia is the most rapid loss of languages of any country in the world, the proof is that most of 300 languages are no longer spoken and are in extinction this is seen as dangerous in languages of Australia (Nettle & Romaine 2000: 9), the approximately 7,000 languages spoken today, some 2,500 are generally considered endangered. Although there are many theories and surveys have appeared to discuss about the topic, this review will focus
Language death is defined as endearment language it means the language is dangerous or is dead, to understand more clearly there are 2 levels of language death such as language is at risk disappearance, language is dead ( no longer spoken ). As stated above there are main reasons which lead Australia is facing the death of language. Starting with first reason is the language programme. A nation if it desire to develop and protect its language so the language programmes are very important, there are many factors lead Australia to risk of language such as economic, political, cultural factors. the language programme is the most prominent ones because it is the thing which teaches and develops the original language ( Bianco, J 1987). Many indigenous languages are constantly disappearing every day. If a indigenous language is disappeared it means a nation will lose the culture of it. Therefore, the language programmes should be set up every school in Australia in order to students could be taught and received indigenous language to preserve. Children and students are two important industries to develop and prevent indigenous language from extinction. Adapting curriculum and materials are the best ways to preserve language in Australia because these programmes could make students and children understand more clearly and to be conscious of protecting language which is invaluable culture of Australia. The main thing why Australia government should set up this programme because most of young people do not speak original language so that explain this let continue with the second reason is age profile of speakers. the State of Indigenous Languages (SOIL) has demonstrated language endangerment indicator based on Age Profile (McConvell & Thieberger 2001: 65), most of the grade from 1 to 5