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Oheróhskon Ryan DeCaire – Canadian Journal of Applied Linguistics / Revue canadienne de linguistique appliquée, 2024
This paper highlights Kanien'kéha (Mohawk language) "adult immersion" as an effective and expedient program structure for creating second-language (L2) speakers and argues that concentrated efforts to strengthen and expand adult immersion are essential in advancing Kanien'kéha revitalization. By conducting a comprehensive vitality…
Descriptors: American Indian Languages, Immersion Programs, Second Language Learning, Adult Education
Szoboszlai, Lajos Pierre – ProQuest LLC, 2017
In response to widespread language loss, many Native American communities are engaged in revitalizing their languages. This dissertation is a systematic account of a tribal member learning Mutsun in the context of a language reclamation project. The last fluent speaker of Mutsun, a Costanoan language of central California, died in 1930. This study…
Descriptors: American Indian Languages, Tribes, Language Maintenance, Audio Equipment
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
Usborne, Esther; Peck, Josephine; Smith, Donna-Lee; Taylor, Donald M. – Canadian Journal of Education, 2011
Aboriginal communities across Canada are implementing Aboriginal language programs in their schools. In the present research, we explore the impact of learning through an Aboriginal language on students' English and Aboriginal language skills by contrasting a Mi'kmaq language immersion program with a Mi'kmaq as a second language program. The…
Descriptors: Immersion Programs, Second Language Learning, Canada Natives, Native Language Instruction
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Cortina, Regina – European Education, 2010
Working in Latin America for several decades to address the educational needs of poor and indigenous groups, the GTZ (Gesellschaft fur Technische Zusammenarbeit) has helped to develop the knowledge base of intercultural bilingual education. The goal of this article is to analyze Germany's impact from the mid-1970s to the present as the GTZ has…
Descriptors: Educational Needs, Indigenous Populations, Bilingual Education, Cooperation
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Ward, Monica – ReCALL, 2004
This paper considers the additional uses of CALL in the Endangered Language (EL) context. It briefly reviews ELs and reports on CALL for ELs in general. It then reviews the extra uses of CALL for ELs; these include changing negative attitudes towards the language, arousing interest in the language and contributing to language maintenance and…
Descriptors: Language Maintenance, Literacy Education, Negative Attitudes, Foreign Countries