Glossary

Junior Primary - Listening

HL - Home Language: This represents the languages or dialects that the child speaks at home. This may be a traditional indigenous language, a Creole or a dialect of SAE, eg. Kala Kawaw Ya, Wik Mungkan, Torres Strait Creole, Aboriginal English. Note that many children are exposed to multi-lingual settings in their home environment.
Mainstream students: Those students who come to school with SAE as a home language.

AE: Aboriginal English
conductive hearing loss: Hearing loss as a result of otitis media
ESL: English as a Second Language
high frequency greetings: e.g. Hello, Hi, How are you?, Good morning.
HL - Home Language: This represents the languages or dialects that the child speaks at home. This may be a traditional indigenous language, a Creole or a dialect of SAE, eg. Kala Kawaw Ya, Wik Mungkan, Torres Strait Creole, Aboriginal English. Note that many children are exposed to multi-lingual settings in their home environment.
otitis media: Also known as middle ear infection or glue ear
register: A set of features of speech or writing characteristic of a particular type of linguistic activity or a particular group when engaging in it, e.g. sermon vs newspaper article. [See Matthews, P.H. (1997)]
SAE: Standard Australian English
Standard: (Form, variety) which is learned and accepted as correct across a community or set of communities in which others are also used. [See Matthews, P.H. (1997)]
TSC: Torres Strait Creole

Matthews, P.H. (1997) The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Linguistics. Oxford: Oxford University Press