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Direct linkWard, Monica – Language Learning & Technology, 2018
The use of computing technologies in less commonly taught language (LCTL) and endangered language (EL) learning is different from mainstream computer-assisted language learning (CALL), where several languages, most noticeably English, dominate the literature. Many most commonly taught language (MCTL) learners learn a language for a variety of…
Descriptors: Second Language Instruction, Uncommonly Taught Languages, Computer Assisted Instruction, Educational Technology
Download full textGimranova, Aliya; Nurmanova, Madina; CohenMiller, A. S. – LEARNing Landscapes, 2017
During the Soviet era, the Kazakh language underwent harsh times and was on the brink of extinction from urban areas in Kazakhstan. Today, the country is paving its way towards reviving the language. This article details an effort to support Kazakh language learning in motivating secondary school students through the use of technology. Through the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Secondary School Students, Educational Technology, Technology Uses in Education
Noori, Margaret – Studies in American Indian Literatures, 2011
Teaching an endangered language today requires extreme measures, and there is no guarantee of success. But the situation is dire and demands adaptive, creative survivance. Anishinaabemowin is one of twenty-seven Algonquian languages, the ancestral birthright of more than two hundred communities in the United States and Canada. Now used as a single…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Internet, American Indian Languages, Teaching Methods
Peer reviewedVilla, Daniel J. – Language Learning & Technology, 2002
Highlights a pilot study that attempts to implement technology in an appropriate manner and to surmount problems faced by out-group language researchers by training an in-group member, in this case a speaker of Navajo, in the methodology and technology necessary for recording and preserving her heritage language. Discusses the role of computer and…
Descriptors: Educational Technology, Heritage Education, Language Maintenance, Navajo
Reinke, Leanne – International Review of Education, 2004
Globalisation is often viewed as a threat to cultural and linguistic diversity and therefore is a central concern of educational practices and policy. The present study challenges this common view by demonstrating that local communities can use global means to support and enhance their specific practices and policies. An historical exploration of…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Educational Practices, Indigenous Populations, Global Approach
Report of the Less Commonly Taught Languages Summit (Minneapolis, Minnesota, September 20-21, 1996).
Stenson, Nancy J.; Janus, Louis E.; Mulkern, Ann E. – 1998
The report summarizes the proceedings of a conference on less commonly taught languages (LCTLs). An introductory chapter describes the origins and organization of the conference, and notes the sponsoring organizations, languages represented by participants, institutions represented, and professional associations to which participants belonged.…
Descriptors: Administrative Organization, Conferences, Curriculum Design, Educational Technology
