Aboriginal Language Course

At GippsTAFE there are Aboriginal Language courses for Aboriginal students to assist them with skills to Revive, teach and reclaim their own Traditional Aboriginal Languages.

We have been teaching skills for Aboriginal community since 2005 and are currently delivering the Certificate 3 and Certificate 4 in Australian Language and Cultural Heritage

Course Overview

This course is primarily for Indigenous Australians it provides you with the practical skills and knowledge relating to Australian languages, traditional knowledge and cultural heritage.

It will also enable you to organize, develop or manage language programs in your own communities, and provide training to people who are employed in government and community language and cultural heritage programs.

You will also gain formal recognition of your existing linguistic and cultural knowledge. You will determine or gain proficiency of an Australian language, learn about the structure of Australian languages, record and transcribe traditional knowledge and learn skills that enable you to develop culturally relevant resource materials to help language and cultural heritage workers to become more effective in the workplace.

You will also learn how to use new technology to promote Australian languages and traditional knowledge, making resources.

Employment Prospects

Employment opportunities in the Education area, Languages Other Than English (LOTE), Koorie Educator, Koorie Education Support Officers & Further studies for Masters.

It will also enable you to organize, develop or manage language programs in your own communities, and provide training to people who are employed in government and community language and cultural heritage programs.

In 2009 there were 17 graduates from across Victoria I taught students from Warrnambool up to Wodonga and down into far East Gippsland Mallacoota.  These students have gone on to continue working on reviving, teaching and reclaiming their languages.  One of my students is the Manager of the Victorian Aboriginal Corporation for Languages, I have other students who work in Early childhood area and is now doing her Bachelor of Early childhood and she will be finished that degree in 2 years as well as completing the Certificate 4.  Other students work in schools to teach Aboriginal Languages.

Lynne with the Graduating student from the Koorie Unit at GippsTAFE 2009

Contact GippsTAFE Morwell if you are interested the course is set up so that you can do workbooks, online classes or do workshops and face to face classes .