In the Anangu Pitjantjatjara Lands bilingual education has been terminated at the request of the community. Teaching in Pitjantjatjara by non-Pitjantjatjara speakers was seen to be corrupting the language through mispronunciation, improper grammar and pidginisation. Domain separation or two-way schooling is now their preferred method of schooling with English speakers teaching the European part of the curriculum and Pitjantjatjara speakers taking the Pitjantjatjara parts. At Yirrkala, in the Northern Territory, there is strong community control over language matters. While one dialect is taught within the school, the many clan dialects are taught by clan members in a setting away from the school but as part of the community school program.
Students are then able to produce classroom materials in their own dialect.
3.19 Two-way schooling overcomes the difficulty encountered at some schools where traditional limits on who may teach what and to whom are sometimes offended against. In non two-way schools, ATSI control over ATSI matters is low. Many communities expressed dissatisfaction of varying degrees with their relationship with the school and their control over what is taught and how it is taught. Similarly, many were concerned that awareness and respect for other cultural matters was low. While a few made this criticism of community schools it was a far more common complaint about town schools.