Why Did The Spread Of Australian English?

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Before the first European settler arrived Australia, there are 250 indigenous languages were used by the Indigenous peoples (Hirsh, 2013). With subsequent of European settled in this land and the popularization of English, English became the first language of Australia. according to the research, there are more than 90 percentages of Indigenous people are using English in Queensland, but the English they are using is not the Standard Australian English, on the contrary, they are using Aboriginal English, a kind of English form that close to Standard Australian English, and it became their first language except their traditional language (Tripcony, 2000). In the school, English is essential for both Indigenous students and non-Indigenous students, …show more content…

It leads to a result that the dislocation between Indigenous peoples and their culture, land, and communities became widen, the spread of English from settler to Indigenous peoples became irresistible (Hirsh, 2013). According to theoretical model by Schneider (Clemens W, 2007), the Australian English can be divided into five stages, in the first stage, with the establishment and expansion of the colonies, people used different languages from their country, there is research proved that even with the spread of English in the early colony time, most of Indigenous people were still use their traditional language (Hirsh, 2013). The second stage came with the stable status of the colony, even colonists were still using strand English from America, British, but some of the lexical were borrowed from Indigenous language to express the local and cultural terms. The third stage can be recognized as the period that Australia slowly achieved the political independence, with more population was born in the colony, the unique account appeared and the lexical and grammar changed, it can be seen as the rudiment of Australian English. In the fourth stage, with using of English became widespread, more Australian publication appeared, in the early 1950s, Queensland University published various of Australian works and it supported the Australian national and language identity (Matto & Momma, 2008). In the 1966, with the first written standard by the Australian government, the use of English became standardized. Furthermore, more local lexical and grammar were written in the dictionaries, as a result, the language differences between region and culture slowly fused. In the fifth stage, the differentiation of

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