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Shulist, Sarah – Language Policy, 2018
This paper examines the implications and implementation of official language policy designed to support endangered Indigenous languages in the municipality of São Gabriel da Cachoeira, Amazonas, Brazil. The policy, in place since late 2001, declared three of the region's many Indigenous languages (Nheengatú, Tukano, and Baniwa) to be…
Descriptors: Language Planning, Language Maintenance, American Indian Languages, Official Languages
Kenfield, Yuliana – Journal of Leadership, Equity, and Research, 2020
For decades social researchers have explored indigenous knowledges and practices, yet decisive input by Quechuan peoples in the research process has remained minimal, nearly non-existent. This non-participatory approach to research about Quechuan peoples, cultures, and languages has reproduced asymmetric relationships between subject and expert,…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Photography, Student Attitudes, College Students
Alvarado-Caushi, Eliseo; Bellido-García, Roberto Santiago; Cruzata-Martínez, Alejandro; Alhuay-Quispe, Joel – International Journal of Qualitative Studies in Education (QSE), 2022
Based on need for intercultural approach to cultural and linguistic diversity in primary school students, this article shows racist attitudes and discrimination against rural, Andean and Quechua context in culturally different social groups. This situation raises the following question: how do the intercultural competences of primary school…
Descriptors: Intercultural Communication, Cultural Awareness, Multilingualism, Elementary School Students
Kari A. B. Chew; Lokosh; Juliet Morgan – Language Documentation & Conservation, 2022
Drawing on the authors' experiences developing Rosetta Stone Chickasaw (RSC), an asynchronous online Chikashshanompa' (Chickasaw language) course, this article shares examples of how relationality is enacted in online Indigenous language learning. We discuss the RSC interface and ways that it created opportunities and barriers to centering…
Descriptors: Computer Software, Computer Assisted Instruction, American Indian Languages, Second Language Learning
Rybka, Konrad – Language Documentation & Conservation, 2015
Lokono is a critically endangered Northern Arawakan language spoken in the pericoastal areas of the Guianas (Guyana, Suriname, French Guiana). Today, in every Lokono village there remains only a small number of elderly native speakers. However, in spite of the ongoing language loss, across the three Guianas as well as in the Netherlands, where a…
Descriptors: Language Maintenance, Documentation, Sociolinguistics, American Indian Languages
Haimovich, Gregory; Márquez Mora, Herlinda – Multilingua: Journal of Cross-Cultural and Interlanguage Communication, 2021
This paper is based on the data collected during fieldwork in the northern part of Mexico's state of Puebla in 2018-2019. During that period, there was a need to gather information that would serve as a starting point for the participatory-action research project in San Miguel Tenango, a village where the majority of people speak Nahuatl as their…
Descriptors: American Indian Languages, Native Language, Participatory Research, Action Research
Meighan, Paul J. – Language Policy, 2023
Language planning and policy (LPP), as a field of research, emerged to solve the "problem" of multilingualism in newly independent nation-states. LPP's principal emphasis was the reproduction of one-state, one-language policies. Indigenous languages were systematically erased through top-down, colonial medium-of-instruction policies,…
Descriptors: Language Planning, Multilingualism, American Indian Languages, Residential Schools
Heidt, Esther Bettney – Teachers College Record, 2023
Background: In recent years, scholars and educators have criticized exclusionary language ideologies and policies within international schools. International schools often emphasize proficiency in English as a language of power instead of valuing students' and teachers' dynamic multilingual practices. Focus of Study: Although oppressive language…
Descriptors: Language Attitudes, International Schools, Language Usage, Equal Education
Mario E. López-Gopar; Vilma Huerta Cordova; Jamie L. Schissel; Lorena Córdova-Hernández; Yesenia Bautista Ortiz; Verónica Rivera Hernández – Language Awareness, 2023
(English) language teaching in Mexico occurs within 'coloniality. Hence, it is imperative to raise the critical multilingual language awareness of future language teachers in terms of colonial practices. In order to promote decolonizing pedagogies, this paper presents the results of a critical-ethnographic-action-research study, whose main goal…
Descriptors: Colonialism, Mexicans, Student Teacher Attitudes, Teacher Education Programs
Stavrou, Stavros Georgios; Murphy, M. Shaun – Canadian Journal of Education, 2019
We describe mathematics classroom teaching practice in an urban Canadian prairie Cree-bilingual school using the term "Cree mathematizing," which, to us, means (re)considering Euro-Western school mathematics from the perspectives of the Cree people engaging with the content. "Cree mathematizing" takes the form of classroom…
Descriptors: Mathematics Instruction, Teaching Methods, Urban Schools, Bilingual Education
Martínez, Ramón Antonio; Mesinas, Melissa – Association of Mexican American Educators Journal, 2019
This article explores Indigenous Mexican mothers' perspectives on multilingualism and Indigenous language maintenance in their children's lives. Drawing on interview data from a larger qualitative study of language and ideology among multilingual children in Los Angeles, California, the article examines the perspectives of four Zapotec mothers who…
Descriptors: Indigenous Populations, Multilingualism, Language Maintenance, Language Usage
John W. Derks – ProQuest LLC, 2024
Do assimilationist restrictions on a minority language lead to greater national unity or a more rebellious minority population? Under what conditions might short-term backlash to language assimilation evolve into greater national unity in the long term? While much of the literature on ethnic politics implicitly treats language simply as an…
Descriptors: Language Minorities, Cost Effectiveness, Acculturation, Political Influences
Riestenberg, Kate; Sherris, Ari – Canadian Modern Language Review, 2018
Task-based language teaching (TBLT) is a pedagogical approach that involves identifying real-world tasks that learners need to be able to do in the target language and then developing classroom-appropriate, context-specific versions of these tasks. In this paper, we use Long's methodological principles for TBLT to evaluate a task-based approach…
Descriptors: Task Analysis, American Indian Languages, Teaching Methods, Workshops
Lisa Jones, Compiler; Tracie Corner, Compiler; Susan Shebby, Compiler; Juliana Taken Alive, Compiler; Betsy Callaway, Compiler; Joe Simpson, Compiler; Joe Moran, Contributor – Region 11 Comprehensive Center, 2020
This annotated bibliography represents an emerging compilation of research on student racial-ethnic identity affirmation, language revitalization, and social-emotional wellness, primarily for Native American students. It includes studies that describe activities which foster positive growth and outcomes for Native American students and communities…
Descriptors: American Indian Students, Cultural Maintenance, Ethnicity, Self Concept
Henke, Ryan E. – Journal of Child Language, 2019
This study presents the first investigation of the development of possessive constructions in Northern East Cree, a polysynthetic language indigenous to Canada. It examines transcripts from naturalistic recording sessions involving one adult and one child, from age 2;01.12 to 3;08.24. Findings reveal that, despite the frequency of possessive…
Descriptors: American Indian Languages, Morphology (Languages), Contrastive Linguistics, Child Language