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Publication Date: 2023-Aug
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Training Communities in Documentation and Technology: The Language Documentation Training Center Model
Language Documentation & Conservation, v17 p254-277 2023
Language documentation is increasingly seen as a collaborative process, engaging community members as active participants. Collaborative research produces better documentation that is valuable for both the academic community and the speakers. However, in many communities, speakers and language advocates lack the skills necessary to fully engage in collaborative projects. One way to overcome this barrier is to provide language documentation training to community members. Such training should teach participants how to ethically and comprehensively complete every stage of the documentation process while offering opportunity for theoretical discussion and practical application. In this paper, we offer one possible model for community-based training in language documentation and conservation that focuses on bidirectional learning and capacity building. We describe a training workshop that was held in 2018 in Kupang, the capital of Indonesia's Nusa Tenggara Timur (NTT) province. A collaboration between the University of Hawai'i, Leiden University, and Artha Wacana Christian University, this workshop implemented a model based on the practices of the Language Documentation Training Center (LDTC), an organization devoted to training speakers to document their own languages. We detail the NTT workshop itself, summarize post-workshop feedback, and offer suggestions to others looking to provide similar training in speaker communities.
Descriptors: Documentation, Language Research, Language Maintenance, Capacity Building, Universities, Institutional Cooperation, Workshops, Models, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Foreign Countries, Native Speakers, Malayo Polynesian Languages, Language Variation, Diachronic Linguistics, Languages
National Foreign Language Resources Center at University of Hawaii. Department of Linguistics, UHM Moore Hall 569, 1890 East-West Road, Honolulu, HI 96822. Fax: 808-956-9166; e-mail: ldc@hawaii.edu; Web site: https://nflrc.hawaii.edu/ldc/
Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Descriptive
Education Level: Higher Education; Postsecondary Education
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Language: English
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Identifiers - Location: Netherlands; Hawaii; Indonesia; Timor-Leste
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