Indigenous Community-Based Language Worker

Issued by Charles Darwin University

This badge is awarded to Indigenous cultural workers who are bilingually proficient and work with languages—in teaching, in developing teaching resources, and in culturally researching and articulating the development of Indigenous languages in their communities. Awardees are qualified to undertake language teaching and research in the cultural development of languages under elder knowledge authority while engaging with non-Indigenous partners and organisations.

Type Certification
Level Foundational
Time Hours
Cost Free

Skills

Earning Criteria

You are required to attend a language work induction meeting and identification of supervising Elder Indigenous authority.
You are required to create a language worker profile detailing who you are, and your previous work (including bilingual experience).
You are required to facilitate one or more language teaching-learning episodes and generation of portfolio of appropriate language-teaching pedagogical materials; or generation of a portfolio demonstrating successful preparation of one or more types of community language support and development resources.
You are required to demonstrate your understanding of what community language support and development work involves, and your capacity to operate bilingually and biculturally in teaching-learning and language research and documentation situations.