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Evaluating Language Revitalization in Kenya

open access: yesNordic Journal of African Studies, 2008
As a result of the necessity to revitalize languages that have shown clear signs of endangerment, several proposals have been put forward by various studies (Paulston, 1994; Yamamoto, 1998; Landweer, 1998; Crystal, 2000; Hinton and Hale, 2001; Tsunoda ...
Ogone John Obiero
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Language Endangerment and Language Revitalization : An Introduction [PDF]

open access: yes, 2006
In almost every part of the world, minority languages are being threatened with extinction. At the same time, dedicated efforts are being made to document endangered languages, to maintain them, and even to revive once-extinct languages. The book presents a comprehensive overview of language endangerment and revitalization.
openaire   +2 more sources

The Role of Cultural Instruction in Adult Indigenous Language Learning

open access: yesCanadian Journal for New Scholars in Education, 2023
As one of the Calls to Action by the Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC) of Canada, the TRC demanded that the Canadian government fund language revitalization and preservation programs, including language courses at the postsecondary level.
Tessa Troughton
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From Assessing Language Endangerment or Vitality to Creating and Evaluating Language Revitalization Programmes

open access: yesNordic Journal of African Studies, 2010
For over two decades now, linguists, educators and anthropologists have directed their efforts at researching about factors that occasion and result from language shift (Trudgill, 1991; Fishman 1991, 2001, Crystal, 2000; Edwards, 1992; Sasse, 1992 ...
Ogone John Obiero
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Cançó en llengua minoritzada i revitalització

open access: yesLengas, 2023
Everyone knows that singing is a fun and enjoyable way to learn a language, and an effective way. We also know that this effectiveness can, from pedagogy to politics, affect more than one field. The historical importance of artistic movements such as "La
Eric Fraj
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Ojibwe language revitalization, multimedia technology, and family language learning [PDF]

open access: yes, 2013
Although Indigenous language loss and revitalization are not new topics of academic work nor new areas of community activism (e.g., King, 2001; Grenoble & Whaley, 2006), increased attention has been paid in recent years to the ways that new technology ...
King, Kendall A., Hermes, Mary
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Competing ideologies of linguistic authority amongst “new speakers” in contemporary Galicia [PDF]

open access: yes, 2013
While in many indigenous minority-language situations traditional native speaker communities are in decline, new speakers are emerging in the context of revitalization policies.
Fernando Ramallo   +3 more
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Sorbian language(s): revitalization efforts in different political systems

open access: yes, 2022
Using multilateral methods based on ethnographic and sociolinguistic research, the project aimed to analyze current official and bottom-up language policy. With a concentration on Upper and Lower Sorbian language speakers, we identified their perceptions
Ratajczak, C. (Sorbian Journal), ProjectLeader   +1 more
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Revitalizing Indigenous languages, cultures, and histories in Montana, across the United States and around the globe

open access: yesCogent Education, 2017
Many educators have sung the praises of Indian Education for All, Montana’s constitutional mandate, and heard the successes of Montana’s Indigenous language revitalization efforts which reverberate around the globe.
Jioanna Carjuzaa
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MAKING EXPERIMENTS WITH THE COMMUNITY LANGUAGE REVITALIZATION. THE CASE OF THE MIXE “LANGUAGE NEST” NAAXWIINYËTË KÄJPXY, OAXACA, MEXICO

open access: yesRa Ximhai, 2019
The “language nest” is a language revitalization method of Maori origin, centered in pre-school children, which has been implemented also in different Mexican native communities since 2007, particularly in the Oaxacan ones.
Zuzana Erdösová   +1 more
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