The ACTA Consultancy Group on Indigenous English as an Additional Language or Dialect provided feedback on the draft International Decade of Indigenous Languages Priorities Paper (the Priorities Paper) in 2023. In partnership with the International Decade of Indigenous Languages Direction Group (the Directions Group), the authors of the draft Paper incorporated ACTA’s feedback into the revised Paper, specifically regarding the importance of a national approach to stopping First Nations language loss, and greater recognition of bilingual-biliterate learning and non-traditional and emerging First Nations languages.
The Paper was endorsed by the Directions Group in March 2024 and provided to the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Language Policy Partnership to feed into their language priorities under Target 16 of the National Agreement on Closing the Gap.
- The updated Priorities Paper can be read here. The Paper is intended to be a living document and change if and when the need arises.
- The ACTA submission can be read here.
Updates on the ongoing work of the Directions Group and Languages Policy Partnership are available at the following web sites: