Download or read book Athabaskan Languages and the Schools written by Chad Thompson and published by . This book was released on 1984 with total page 92 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Handbook designed to assist school districts in providing effective educational services to students from the group of Athabaskan languages. Includes an overview of Athabaskan languages, linguistic characteristics of Athabaskan and English, recommended instructional strategies for language in the classroom, and Athabaskan sound systems.
Download or read book Athabaskan Languages and the Schools written by Chad Thompson and published by . This book was released on 1984-06-01 with total page 83 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Athabaskan Languages and the Schools written by Chad Thompson and published by . This book was released on 1984 with total page 83 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Inupiaq and the Schools written by Lawrence D. Kaplan and published by . This book was released on 1984 with total page 56 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Handbook designed to assist classroom teachers, bilingual-bicultural education and special education program staff, counsellors and school administrators in improving instructional services for Inupiaq students. Includes sections on Inupiaq sounds and grammar and their influence on English, Inupiaq in the classroom, and the sounds of Inupiaq.
Download or read book An Introduction to Athabaskan Languages written by Chad Thompson and published by . This book was released on 1987 with total page 31 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book An Introduction to Alaskan Athabaskan Languages written by Chad Thompson and published by . This book was released on 1987 with total page 34 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Explains the Athabascan verb system, sentence structure, noun and pronoun categories, and prepositions.
Download or read book We Are Our Language written by Barbra A. Meek and published by University of Arizona Press. This book was released on 2012-02-01 with total page 233 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For many communities around the world, the revitalization or at least the preservation of an indigenous language is a pressing concern. Understanding the issue involves far more than compiling simple usage statistics or documenting the grammar of a tongue—it requires examining the social practices and philosophies that affect indigenous language survival. In presenting the case of Kaska, an endangered language in an Athabascan community in the Yukon, Barbra A. Meek asserts that language revitalization requires more than just linguistic rehabilitation; it demands a social transformation. The process must mend rips and tears in the social fabric of the language community that result from an enduring colonial history focused on termination. These “disjunctures” include government policies conflicting with community goals, widely varying teaching methods and generational viewpoints, and even clashing ideologies within the language community. This book provides a detailed investigation of language revitalization based on more than two years of active participation in local language renewal efforts. Each chapter focuses on a different dimension, such as spelling and expertise, conversation and social status, family practices, and bureaucratic involvement in local language choices. Each situation illustrates the balance between the desire for linguistic continuity and the reality of disruption. We Are Our Language reveals the subtle ways in which different conceptions and practices—historical, material, and interactional—can variably affect the state of an indigenous language, and it offers a critical step toward redefining success and achieving revitalization.
Download or read book Make Prayers to the Raven written by Richard K. Nelson and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2020-05-23 with total page 325 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Nelson spent a year among the Koyukon people of western Alaska, studying their intimate relationship with animals and the land. His chronicle of that visit represents a thorough and elegant account of the mystical connection between Native Americans and the natural world."—Outside "This admirable reflection on the natural history of the Koyukon River drainage in Alaska is founded on knowledge the author gained as a student of the Koyukon culture, indigenous to that region. He presents these Athapascan views of the land—principally of its animals and Koyukon relationships with those creatures—together with a measured account of his own experiences and doubts. . . . For someone in search of a native American expression of 'ecology' and natural history, I can think of no better place to begin than with this work."—Barry Lopez, Orion Nature Quarterly "Far from being a romantic attempt to pass on the spiritual lore of Native Americans for a quick fix by others, this is a very serious ethnographic study of some Alaskan Indians in the Northern Forest area. . . . He has painstakingly regarded their views of earth, sky, water, mammals and every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth. He does admire their love of nature and spirit. Those who see the world through his eyes using their eyes will likely come away with new respect for the boreal forest and those who live with it and in it, not against it."—The Christian Century "In Make Prayers to the Raven Nelson reveals to us the Koyukon beliefs and attitudes toward the fauna that surround them in their forested habitat close to the lower Yukon. . . . Nelson's presentation also gives rich insights into the Koyukon subsistence cycle through the year and into the hardships of life in this northern region. The book is written with both brain and heart. . . . This book represents a landmark: never before has the integration of American Indians with their environment been so well spelled out."—Ake Hultkrantz, Journal of Forest History
Download or read book Southern Athabaskan Languages written by Source Wikipedia and published by University-Press.org. This book was released on 2013-09 with total page 26 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 24. Chapters: Navajo language, Code talker, Navajo phonology, Southern Athabascan grammar, Lipan Apache people, Jicarilla language, Mescalero-Chiricahua language, Lipan language, KMYN, Tonto Apache people, Western Apache language, Berard Haile, Plains Apache language, Navajo Language Academy. Excerpt: Navajo or Navaho (native name: Dine bizaad) is an Athabaskan language (of Na-Dene stock) spoken in the southwestern United States. It is geographically and linguistically one of the Southern Athabaskan languages (the majority of Athabaskan languages are spoken in northwest Canada and Alaska). Navajo has more speakers than any other Native American language north of the U.S.-Mexico border, with 170,717 self-reported speakers in 2007, and this number has increased with time. The American Community Survey of 2007 reported 170,717 speakers of Navajo, making it the only Native American language to warrant a separate line in the statistical tables. The majority of speakers live on the Navajo Nation. Of these, 2.9% were monolingual with no knowledge of English. The four metro- and micropolitan areas with the largest number of speakers were Farmington (16.5%), Gallup (12%), Flagstaff (10.3%), and Albuquerque (5.4%). A number of bilingual immersion schools operate within Navajo-speaking regions to preserve and promote usage of the language. The following table lists the consonants of Navajo in the standard orthography, followed by their pronunciation in IPA notation in brackets: In Navajo orthography, the letter represents two different sounds: it is pronounced when stem initial and when prefixal or stem/word final. However, when is preceded by it is always written as and never as so that it will not be confused with (e.g. "I'm turning around," but never ). The consonant is written as before front vowels and (where it is palatalized ), as...
Download or read book Interethnic Communication written by Ronald Scollon and published by Alaska Native Language Center. This book was released on 1980-01-01 with total page 63 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The booklet is designed to accompany a videotape (not included here) of the same title in the series "Talking Alaska," and is intended for personal use and use in workshops and other presentations on cross-cultural and interethnic communication. The text can be used with or without the videotape. Introductory sections describe the background of the materials and offer suggestions for their classroom use, including workshop preparation, the initial session, videotape presentation and discussion, post-workshop evaluation, and time considerations. The core of the text discusses basic principles of interethnic communication and related issues: the importance of communication; interethnic communication in Alaska; ethnic stereotyping, particularly in Athabaskan-English interethnic communication; gatekeeping, or making decisions that will affect the social, economic, and geographic mobility of others; communicative styles; and dealing with conflicting styles of politeness. The final section contains specific behavioral recommendations for improving interethnic communication, based on three basic strategies: perception of what is happening in the communication; acceptance that others do not intend to miscommunicate; and repair of miscommunication. (MSE)
Download or read book Bilingual bicultural Education in Alaska written by E. Dean Coon and published by . This book was released on 1980 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Athabaskan Language Culture written by and published by . This book was released on 2001 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Intended "to assist teachers in developing a local program to help students ... develop competency and fluency in the Koyukon and Lower Tanana language and culture ... By using this curriculum guide ... teachers can better prepare themselves to teach the Athabaskan language and culture." Provides objectives for each of seven strands for grades K-12. Units: Linguisitics, Culture (Geography), Culture (History), Culture (Arts), Culture (Material), Culture (Lifestyle), Culture (Beliefs).
Download or read book The Athabaskan Languages written by Theodore B. Fernald and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2000-05-25 with total page 345 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Native American language family called Athabaskan has received increasing attention from linguists and educators. The linguistic chapters in this volume focus on syntax and semantics, but also involve morphology, phonology, and historical linguistics. Included is a discussion of whether religion and secular issues can be separated in Navajo classrooms.
Download or read book The Cambridge Handbook of Linguistic Typology written by Alexandra Y. Aikhenvald and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2017-03-30 with total page 1661 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Linguistic typology identifies both how languages vary and what they all have in common. This Handbook provides a state-of-the art survey of the aims and methods of linguistic typology, and the conclusions we can draw from them. Part I covers phonological typology, morphological typology, sociolinguistic typology and the relationships between typology, historical linguistics and grammaticalization. It also addresses typological features of mixed languages, creole languages, sign languages and secret languages. Part II features contributions on the typology of morphological processes, noun categorization devices, negation, frustrative modality, logophoricity, switch reference and motion events. Finally, Part III focuses on typological profiles of the mainland South Asia area, Australia, Quechuan and Aymaran, Eskimo-Aleut, Iroquoian, the Kampa subgroup of Arawak, Omotic, Semitic, Dravidian, the Oceanic subgroup of Austronesian and the Awuyu-Ndumut family (in West Papua). Uniting the expertise of a stellar selection of scholars, this Handbook highlights linguistic typology as a major discipline within the field of linguistics.
Download or read book Bibliography of Educational Publications for Alaska Native Languages written by and published by Interamerica Research Associates. This book was released on 1979 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Mattole written by Fanggui Li and published by Chicago : University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 1930 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Central Yupi k and the Schools written by Steven A. Jacobson and published by . This book was released on 1984 with total page 60 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Handbook designed to assist school districts in providing effective educational services to students from Yup'ik Eskimo language group. Includes recommended readings, listing of school districts enrolling Yup'ik students, and sources of information, materials and instructional assistance.
