Yalbilinya: National First Languages Education Workforce Strategy

Yalbilinya: National First Languages Education Workforce Strategy is the final outcome of the three-year Yalbilinya: National Indigenous Languages Education Project collaboration. The strategy maps out a future in which Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander languages are rightfully restored to communities where they were spoken for tens of thousands of years. To create this future, our languages must be taught, and the teachers, educators, linguistic experts, and resource makers involved in the process must come from our communities.

Yalbilinya identifies actions to be undertaken over the next ten years to increase community capacity to teach our languages; in the areas of employment, training, professional learning, multilingual communities, community collaboration, leadership, promotion, national coordination and attraction and retention of participants.

Yalbilinya: National First Languages Education Workforce Strategy