Yakilla: Training Tracks
Yakilla is the report from the first stage of a project working to increase career development opportunities for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander language workers.
Individuals and communities have diverse learning needs. While people in some regions are looking for accredited programs to help them progress to careers that require tertiary education, others wish to learn or improve skills without the need for certified qualifications.
Over the past year, First Languages Australia has worked with partners to identify training relevant to language work that is currently available, and to seek language worker perspectives on needs that are not currently being met.
The project is a collaboration between First Languages Australia, Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander language centres and learning providers, as well as the Australian Government through the Indigenous Languages and Arts program within the Department of Infrastructure, Transport, Regional Development and Communications and the Department of Education, Skills and Employment.
The findings of the project have been collated in a report and are also available on the website for easy reference.
Yakilla is pronounced with the ‘ya’ sounding like the ‘ya’ in ‘yahoo’, ‘kil’ similar to ‘gill’ and ‘la’ as in ‘lasting’. The title has been provided by the Pathangal Tyalingi Language Centre. It means ‘learning’ in the Latji Latji, Mutti Mutti and Wadi Wadi languages of the Murray River along the NSW–Victoria border. Artwork by Doreen Chapman of Martumili Artists.
