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Gorter, Durk – Language Teaching, 2015
In this plenary speech I examine multilingual interaction in a number of European regions in which minority languages are being revitalized. Education is a crucial variable, but the wider society is equally significant. The context of revitalization is no longer bilingual but increasingly multilingual. I draw on the results of a long-running…
Descriptors: Multilingualism, Language Minorities, Language Maintenance, Secondary School Students
Paciotto, Carla – 1996
This paper reviews factors contributing to the loss of language and culture of the Tarahumara people of Mexico and describes a program aimed at preserving Tarahumara language and culture. The Tarahumara people reside in the Sierra Tarahumara in the northern state of Chihuahua, Mexico. Although the Tarahumara people successfully avoided…
Descriptors: Acculturation, American Indian Education, Bilingual Education Programs, Cultural Maintenance
Farfan, Jose Antonio Flores – 2002
Even though Nahuatl is the most widely spoken indigenous language in Mexico, it is endangered. Threats include poor support for Nahuatl-speaking communities, migration of Nahuatl speakers to cities where English and Spanish are spoken, prejudicial attitudes toward indigenous languages, lack of contact between small communities of different…
Descriptors: American Indian Languages, American Indians, Audiotape Recordings, Community Education
Bennett, Ruth – 2002
The use of traditional stories in American Indian language programs connects students' reading to their lives and familiarizes learners with the rhythms of the oral language. Puppet performances are one way of connecting reading programs to the Native oral tradition. A high school reading lesson in a first-year Hupa language class uses many…
Descriptors: American Indian Education, American Indian Languages, Culturally Relevant Education, High Schools
Delpit, Lisa D. – 1985
A recently implemented program in a decentralized provincial district of Papua New Guinea delays the entry of children into English-medium primary school for two years, during which time the children are taught literacy in a village-based school in their indigenous language, a pidgin, with the local customs and culture as the basis of the…
Descriptors: Cultural Awareness, Experimental Programs, Folk Culture, Foreign Countries
Rudin, Catherine – 1989
A native language renewal program at the Macy, Nebraska Public School is described that is designed to preserve Omaha, a native American Indian language that is only a generation away from extinction. At the time of this research, only about 100 fluent Omaha speakers lived on the Omaha Reservation in Nebraska. The language and culture program,…
Descriptors: American Indian Education, American Indian Languages, American Indians, Cultural Education
Yamauchi, Lois A.; Ceppi, Andrea K.; Lau-Smith, Jo-Anne – 1998
Papahana Kaiapuni is a K-12 indigenous language immersion program in selected public schools in the State of Hawai'i. Instruction in Kaiapuni classrooms is conducted in the Hawaiian language. Program goals include students' development of a high level of proficiency in both Hawaiian and English. For nearly a century, policy banning the Hawaiian…
Descriptors: Educational History, Elementary Secondary Education, Hawaiian, Heritage Education
Moana, Whare Te; Selby, Rachael – 1999
For years, Maori tribes have wanted their own people to be trained as teachers and to return to teach their own language and culture in their tribal regions. Many Maori who returned from colleges of education had absorbed too much of European New Zealanders' ways and did not meet their community's expectations. Maori-education preschools were…
Descriptors: Biculturalism, Culturally Relevant Education, Educational Innovation, Extension Education
Slaughter, Helen B. – 1997
This study explored the functions of literacy in the Hawaiian language that may be realized in an indigenous language immersion program when the indigenous language is a second language with severely restricted use in the wider community. It also examined the connections between Hawaiian language use, the local culture in Hawaii, and development…
Descriptors: Cultural Maintenance, Elementary Secondary Education, Ethnography, Hawaiian
Campos, James – 1985
The Carpinteria school district in California has developed a model preschool program to bring Spanish-dominant preschool children up to a level of readiness for school that compares favorably with that of English-speaking children in the same community. That goal is achieved by developing skills in four major areas: Spanish language, cognition,…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Bilingual Education Programs, English (Second Language), Language Acquisition
Stiles, Dawn B. – 1997
This paper examines four indigenous language programs to compare common components, problems, and outcomes. The programs are Cree Way in Quebec, Canada, Hualapai in Arizona, Te Kohanga Reo (Maori) in New Zealand, and Punana Leo (Hawaiian) in Hawaii. These programs were chosen for four characteristics: (1) the languages are no longer transmitted to…
Descriptors: American Indian Education, Bilingual Education Programs, Case Studies, Community Involvement
Malcolm, Ian G. – 1995
A program at Edith Cowan University (Australia) to develop a teacher training curriculum supporting bidialectalism in the schools is described. Underlying principles of this approach to bidialectal education are the acceptance of Aboriginal English, creation of a bridge to standard English, and cultivation of Aboriginal ways of approaching…
Descriptors: Bidialectalism, Bilingual Education, Change Strategies, Cultural Context
Hannaman, David L.; And Others – 1989
The processes used by the Defense Language Institute (DLI) Foreign Language Center to develop proficiency-based nonresident courses in Czech, Polish, and Russian for language maintenance is described. Based on needs assessment and analysis of Department of Defense endusers, DLI provided the concept and design for the Proficiency Improvement…
Descriptors: Competency Based Education, Computer Literacy, Copyrights, Curriculum Development
Chee, Donna Ah; Maidment, Debra; Hayes-Hampton, Margie – 1999
The Institute for Aboriginal Development (IAD) is an Aboriginal-controlled language resource center and adult education center serving the Aboriginal communities of central Australia. Its activities include education programs, which range from literacy and numeracy to vocational and tertiary-level courses; an Aboriginal language and culture center…
Descriptors: Aboriginal Australians, Adult Education, Community Education, Cross Cultural Training
Cazden, Courtney B.; And Others – 1990
A discussion of language in preschool education reviews research findings on children's language acquisition and its relationship to their general development and examines issues to be considered in making decisions for each community and program. The first section summarizes basic knowledge about preschool language development, facilitating…
Descriptors: Annotated Bibliographies, Bilingual Education Programs, Caregivers, Case Studies