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Henke, Kristin Sattler – ProQuest LLC, 2018
This dissertation in teacher leadership represents original, independent research that investigated bilingual language instruction of an indigenous Alaskan group of students. Ethnographic research using qualitative and quantitative data was applied to develop an understanding of correlations between the value of English and Yup'ik language and…
Descriptors: Bilingual Education, Alaska Natives, Eskimo Aleut Languages, English (Second Language)
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Gaquin, Sheila – Educational Leadership, 2006
In this column, the author relates her experience as a teacher in a K-12 school in Point Hope, Alaska, where most of the students spoke "village English," a form of nonstandard English mixed with the village's native language of Inupiaq. She relates how the students' reading test scores, which had been below the 25th percentile, were…
Descriptors: Eskimo Aleut Languages, Writing Processes, Writing (Composition), Scores