Influence Aboriginal Learners

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As a teacher in the future time I may have an influence for Aboriginal students within their learning through the concept stated in (Price, 2012) which had acknowledged that all students have the right to learn about their own language and signified that Australian language as Aboriginal language. Through the statistics (Korff, 2015) it is evident that more than 66% of Aboriginals live in NSW, QLD, and Victoria, which reveals it’s the most popular areas in the nation where Aboriginal people live in. As a teacher in any circumstances I would have an interaction with an indigenous background student and it is important to help them out in school for them to get familiarise with their language and this needs to be represented for them to have

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