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Producing language reclamation by decolonising ‘language’

Language Documentation and Description, 2017
Indigenous language documentation and description efforts are increasingly designed to support community decolonisation goals, particularly with respect to implementing practices that will facilitate the use of the resulting products in revitalisation ...
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Co-creation of a Digital Game to Support Language Revitalisation [PDF]

, 2016
Many Aboriginal languages are becoming extinct due to lack of fluent speakers. Computer games offer a way to help teach these languages in a fun and engaging way. However, computer games like all technology objects are based in the culture of their creators. In this paper we describe a project where we codesigned a language application for mobile phone
Dianna L. Hardy, Elizabeth Forest, Zoe McIntosh, Janine Gertz, Trina S. Myers   +4 more
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Creating space(s) for learning in prison: Developing an andragogical framework

British Educational Research Journal, EarlyView.
Abstract Learning in prison is too often excluded from wider discussions of educational experiences, processes and impact. This paper proposes, for the first time, an iterative andragogical framework to conceptualise learning spaces within prison contexts.
Morwenna Bennallick, Jayne Finlay, Ross Little, Helen Nichols   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Geschichte der Sprachenpolitik Kameruns, oder: der lange Weg nationaler Sprachen aus der Verbannung

Stellenbosch Papers in Linguistics Plus, 2009
A major characteristic of Cameroon's language policy during the colonial era as well as during the first four decades of the postcolonial era, is discrimination against all indigenous Cameroonian languages. This began when German was introduced after the
Djomo, Esaïe
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English teachers' journeys since the 2020 Iteration of Black Lives Matter

British Educational Research Journal, EarlyView.
Abstract The 2020 resurgence of Black Lives Matter (BLM) mobilised students in England to demand greater representation of racially minoritised voices in English curriculums—a call highlighted by stark inequity: just 1.5% of GCSE texts studied are by racially minoritised authors, despite racially minoritised students comprising 38.0% of the student ...
Adrian Fernandes
wiley   +1 more source

Preventing Extinction Language with Socio Cultural Activities: an Empirical Study on Duano Sea Tribe

Journal of Language and Literature
Many languages worldwide are currently endangered. Many linguists argue that endangered languages can be preserved through revitalisation and language documentation.
Diana Rozelin, Mailinar Mailinar, Ulfatmi Azlan   +2 more
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Exploring goals and motivations of Māori heritage language learners

Studies in Second Language Learning and Teaching, 2015
Motivations of Māori heritage language learners are explored within this qualitative study. Te reo Māori (the Māori language) is currently classed as endangered (Reedy et al., 2011), which calls for the exploration of the motivational experiences of ...
Awanui Te Huia
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Indigenous Language Revitalisation and Globalisation

Te Kaharoa, 2008
This article focuses on language revitalisation, which involves a reversal of language shift where people start using a language that has been moribund or threatened by extinction, so that its vitality gradually restored. Adding new sets of speakers, adding new functions by introducing the language into new domains, and other approaches are examined.
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Greens in Regulation: Biodiversity Strategy Implementation Across the Golf Industry

Business Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Although much of the business and biodiversity literature focuses on extractive industries, we turn our attention to the golf industry. Golf courses occupy millions of acres globally, yet biodiversity strategy implementation across the golf industry remains understudied.
Jordan P. Howell, Jordan Moore
wiley   +1 more source

‘Met mijn voeten in de klei’ – With My Feet in the Clay: The Impact of a Music Performance in a Local Variety of Low Saxon

Cognitive Studies | Études cognitives
When speakers of a small language switch to a dominant language, the cultural sector sometimes remains a last bastion of use and a token of a minoritised identity.
Aurelie Joubert, Merel Lobo
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