Tight budget, big dreams: Using university course credit in the creation of an online Kriol language course for English speakers
Main Article Content
Keywords
Kriol, Language teaching, Online teaching, Indigenous language
Abstract
Kriol is an Australian contact language spoken in Australia’s north, and it is the first language of the community of Ngukurr in southern Arnhem Land. For the past two and a half years, I have been using university course credit to create an online language course teaching Kriol to English speakers at the behest of the Ngukurr Language Centre. This paper conveys the challenges that arise in undertaking a large-scale project of this sort as an undergraduate student. It also summarises the advantages and disadvantages of teaching a language online, and provides examples of the tools and techniques available for this purpose. It is hoped that this paper will encourage other undergraduate students and the staff who support them to engage in large-scale projects and pursue similar opportunities during their coursework
Article Sidebar
Article Details
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License.
It is the author’s responsibility to obtain permission to reproduce any work still under copyright in their upcoming submissions. Copyright can apply to any original work of art or text and could include such items as: textual works; artistic works; sound recordings; cinematograph films; broadcasts; web content; maps; photographs; and architectural drawings.
More information regarding copyright can be found on the Australian Copyright Council website.
Generally in academic work, most work is attributed by acknowledging the original source via citations. However, this does not allow authors to reuse other's work without permission, particularly if they are reusing a 'substantial' part of a work.
In practice, whilst this could occur across a range of work types, it is most likely to occur with the use of images, graphs and tables.
If a submission contains copyrighted images from other published sources, permission will be needed before the image can be used in a published article.
- once the article has been accepted, contact the authors or journal to request permission
- provide a copy of the approval email/form
If all images, graphs, and tables are the author’s own creation, authors will need to explain somewhere in the document that no permissions were necessary as the figures/tables are original and were created by the author.