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Darcy, Rose; Auld, Glenn – Australian Educational Computing, 2008
The use of ICTs to support literacy in a minority Indigenous Australian language is an important domain of pedagogy that is often overlooked by teachers in these contexts. The development of new technological configurations in remote communities can be highly supportive of Indigenous languages spoken by a small number of people. This paper reports…
Descriptors: Indigenous Populations, Educational Technology, Family Environment, Teaching Methods
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Hall, Allison H. – Forum on Public Policy Online, 2006
Language is a means by which different minds communicate ideas to one another. It is also a means our minds use to understand ourselves, other people, the world around us, and the relationships among them. In language acquisition, we are basically developing a code that we will use to understand, formulate and communicate ideas. The acquisition of…
Descriptors: Perspective Taking, Language Acquisition, Native Language Instruction, Second Language Instruction
Dorn, David N. – American Educator: The Professional Journal of the American Federation of Teachers, 1993
Reviews the situation of education in Kosova, a part of old Yugoslavia with an Albanian population, where a low-intensity ethnic cleansing campaign against children is being conducted by Serbian authorities. In response to Serbian destruction of the public school system, semiclandestine Albanian language schools have been created. (SLD)
Descriptors: Children, Educational Discrimination, Elementary School Students, Elementary Secondary Education
Kamhi, Alan G., Ed.; And Others – 1996
The collection of papers on language development and African-American children includes: "The Challenges of Conducting Language Research with African American Children" (Holly K. Craig); "Issues in Recruiting African American Participants for Research" (Joyce L. Harris); "Issues in Assessing the Language Abilities of…
Descriptors: Articulation (Speech), Black Dialects, Black Youth, Child Development