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Ferris, Kyliah Petrita; Guiberson, Mark; Bush, Erin J. – Topics in Language Disorders, 2021
Native American tribes and families are highly pluralistic in their ideologies, beliefs, traditions, and values. Very little research has described the parenting and child-rearing beliefs of Native American caregivers. The purpose of this study was to gain an understanding of Native American caregivers' developmental priorities and preferences…
Descriptors: Young Children, Child Development, Reservation American Indians, Cultural Maintenance
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Chew, Kari A. B.; Child, Sara; Dormer, Jackie; Little, Alexa; Sammons, Olivia; Souter, Heather – Canadian Modern Language Review, 2023
This article shares a participatory action research project about the use of technology, specifically online Indigenous language courses, to learn and teach Indigenous languages. The research collaborators are the NETOLNEW "one mind, one people" Partnership, 7000 Languages, and two Indigenous Partners who have created courses with 7000…
Descriptors: Participatory Research, Action Research, American Indian Languages, Language Maintenance
Office of Planning, Evaluation and Policy Development, US Department of Education, 2018
The Native American and Alaska Native Children in School (NAM) discretionary grants program aims to reduce the persistent achievement gap between Native American and Alaska Native (NA/AN) youth and their peers in reading and English language arts (ELA) and college readiness in reading. NA/AN students enter school with varying levels of skill in…
Descriptors: American Indian Students, Alaska Natives, Achievement Gap, American Indian Languages
Tanenbaum, Courtney; Cole, Susan; Autumn, Stephanie; Chavez, Suzette; Cinque, Alexa; Sowers, Jayne – Office of Planning, Evaluation and Policy Development, US Department of Education, 2018
The Native American and Alaska Native Children in School (NAM) discretionary grants program aims to reduce the persistent achievement gaps between Native American and Alaska Native (NA/AN) youth and their peers on measures of reading and English language arts (ELA) (NCES 2015) and on measures of college-readiness in reading (ACT 2017). One reason…
Descriptors: American Indian Students, Alaska Natives, Achievement Gap, American Indian Languages
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Perez Baez, Gabriela – Language Policy, 2013
San Lucas Quiavini is a community of Zapotec (Otomanguean) speakers in Oaxaca, Mexico. Since the 1970s, the community has seen large-scale migration to Los Angeles, California, where about half the community now resides. Participant observation and interviews conducted over nine years in both locales, with a focus on interactional patterns in the…
Descriptors: Parent Child Relationship, Foreign Countries, Language Acquisition, Ideology
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Lee, Tiffany S. – Journal of Language, Identity, and Education, 2009
Native American languages, contemporary youth identity, and powerful messages from mainstream society and Native communities create complex interactions that require deconstruction for the benefit of Native-language revitalization. This study showed how Native youth negotiate mixed messages such as the necessity of Indigenous languages for…
Descriptors: Language Maintenance, Navajo, American Indian Languages, Ideology
Reyhner, Jon – 1999
Drawing from papers presented at the five "Stabilizing Indigenous Languages" symposia held since 1994, this paper recommends strategies for language revitalization at various stages of language loss. Based on a study of minority languages worldwide, Joshua Fishman postulated a continuum of eight stages of language loss, ranging from the…
Descriptors: American Indian Languages, Educational Needs, Elementary Secondary Education, Family Role