... an important responsibility in the maintenance of children's home languages. Possible suggestions of educational strategies therefore, will also be discussed. Ever since the British colonisation of Australia where countless numbers of English speaking settlers had come to occupy the land, English has continued to be the dominant language representing power and privilege over any other. As stated by Jones Diaz and Harvey (2002), 'being able to speak more than one language is directly connected to broader sociocultural and linguistic contexts within which languages and literacies are used' (pp.107). In the early years, children are constantly changing and renegotiating their identities in everyday language and literacy social practices through experiences of learning English and using their home language. Hence, children's attitude towards learning English and learning their home language is closely linked to the 'power relations embedded in social interactions between speakers of different languages' (Jones Diaz & Harvey, 2002 pp. ...

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