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Julia E. Nee – ProQuest LLC, 2021
"How do you feel when you speak Zapotec?" According to some children who are learning Zapotec, an Indigenous language spoken in Teotitlan del Valle, Mexico, speaking Zapotec invokes feelings of pride. But not all learners feel this way, and children's feelings often vary depending on the specifics of a particular interaction. In this…
Descriptors: Language Acquisition, Children, Cultural Maintenance, American Indian Languages
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M. Garrett Delavan; James A. Gambrell; G. Sue Kasun – International Multilingual Research Journal, 2024
This theoretical article explores how Land-based education could help decolonize language education, starting from the case of dual language bilingual education (DLBE) in the United States. We invoke other scholars' metaphor of basements versus boutiques to understand how such programs have often either been colonially marginalized into basements…
Descriptors: Equal Education, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Multilingualism
Emily K. Davis-Hale – ProQuest LLC, 2024
Tikal, notably conservative in culture among its peer polities, maintains that tendency in the case of monumental texts. In this dissertation I draw on a corpus of Late Classic monuments (ca. AD 600-900) to argue, through analysis of morphological forms, that scribal tradition at Tikal was not only conservative but intentionally so. Literacy…
Descriptors: American Indian Languages, Literacy, Language Attitudes, Language Variation
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Katerin Elizabeth Arias-Ortega; Viviana Villarroel Cárdenas; Carlos Sanhueza-Estay – Journal of Latinos and Education, 2024
The article reports on the dispossession of indigenous knowledge in the public education system in Mapuche territory in La Araucanía, a southern region in Chile. The methodology is qualitative, 18 people were interviewed including Mapuche wise men and women, fathers, and mothers who experienced schooling processes in their younger years. The…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, American Indians, American Indian Education, Parent Attitudes
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Brittain, Julie; Rose, Yvan – First Language, 2021
This study is based on naturalistic speech samples produced by one child learning Cree as her first language (2;01-4;03) and presents the first investigation into the development of preverbs in the language. Preverbs are an optional class of morpheme which precede the lexical verb stem, dividing into grammatical, lexical and directional (deictic)…
Descriptors: American Indian Languages, Language Acquisition, Native Language, Morphemes
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Lourdes de León; Rosnátaly Avelino Sierra – First Language, 2024
Research on the acquisition of Mayan languages has shown child-directed communication (CDC) to be low in frequency. Nevertheless, long-term linguistic-anthropological research with the Tsotsil Mayan in Southern Mexico has documented episodes in family life when children engage in interactional routines or interactional formats (IFs) with their…
Descriptors: American Indian Languages, Caregiver Child Relationship, Classification, Family Relationship
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Pye, Clifton; Berthiaume, Scott; Pfeiler, Barbara – Journal of Child Language, 2021
The study used naturalistic data on the production of nominal prefixes in the Otopamean language Northern Pame (autonym: Xi'iuy) to test Whole Word (constructivist) and Minimal Word (prosodic) theories for the acquisition of inflection. Whole Word theories assume that children store words in their entirety; Minimal Word theories assume that…
Descriptors: Nouns, Morphemes, Linguistic Theory, Suprasegmentals
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Denise A. D. Kennedy – in education, 2022
This research based on my master's thesis explores Nahkawewin language revitalization. This study draws on the language nest model, which first originated with Maori grandmothers and their grandchildren in the 1970s. In this study, my mother and I created what I refer to as a "mini" language nest in both of our homes to teach my children…
Descriptors: Language Maintenance, Indigenous Populations, American Indian Languages, Canada Natives
James Daniel Sarmento – ProQuest LLC, 2021
This dissertation argues that indigenous language revitalization and reclamation projects are best understood as multigenerational and multi-participant conversations, which I will frame as language conversations. Language revitalization and reclamation relies on relationships, access, and accountability within indigenous frameworks. This model of…
Descriptors: American Indians, American Indian Languages, American Indian History, Native Speakers
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Andino-Enri´quez, Jose E.; Andino-Enri´quez, Manuel A.; Hidalgo-Ba´ez, Francis E.; Chala´n-Guala´n, Sisa P.; Gualapuro-Gualapuro, Santiago D.; Belli, Simone; Chicaiza-Lema, Michelle B. – Journal of Chemical Education, 2022
Minorities' languages face transformation processes and struggle against many social and linguistic limitations. Education systems in these languages are not optimal to promote the teaching of ancestral knowledge and scientific research. This is the case of Kichwa, an Ecuadorian native language that more than half-million people speak with…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Language Minorities, Science Instruction, Language Usage
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Callahan, Janet; Hanson, Elizabeth K. – Language, Speech, and Hearing Services in Schools, 2023
Purpose: The purpose of this article is to describe a grassroots project to develop an augmentative and alternative communication (AAC) system for a child who is learning to speak the Native American Lakota language. The project began as a part of a homeschool curriculum to address the foreign language requirement during the COVID-19 pandemic.…
Descriptors: Indigenous Populations, Augmentative and Alternative Communication, American Indian Languages, Second Language Learning
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Weber-Pillwax, Cora – International Journal of Lifelong Education, 2021
Through the voice of a Metis educator, this work addresses the foundations of an Indigenous lifelong education. Lived experiences connect with unfolding personal narrative to demonstrate the ancient flow of Indigenous knowledge, and the continuity and expression of Indigenous being. The narratives implicitly references connections and…
Descriptors: Canada Natives, Foreign Countries, Indigenous Knowledge, Lifelong Learning
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Clifton Pye – First Language, 2024
The Mayan language Mam uses complex predicates to express events. Complex predicates map multiple semantic elements onto a single word, and consequently have a blend of lexical and phrasal features. The chameleon-like nature of complex predicates provides a window on children's ability to express phrasal combinations at the one-word stage of…
Descriptors: Intonation, Suprasegmentals, American Indian Languages, Vowels
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Ilana M. Umansky; Manuel Vazquez Cano; Lorna M. Porter – Educational Evaluation and Policy Analysis, 2024
Federal law defines eligibility for English learner (EL) classification differently for Indigenous students compared with non-Indigenous students. To be EL-eligible, non-Indigenous students are required to have a non-English primary language. Indigenous students, by contrast, can be English-dominant or English monolingual. A critical question,…
Descriptors: English Language Learners, Classification, Indigenous Populations, Alaska Natives
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Rukmini Becerra-Lubies; Catalina Fernández; Laura Luna; Dayna Moya – International Journal of Bilingual Education and Bilingualism, 2024
This article critically examines bilingual, intercultural education policies and practices in the context of the implementation of these policies in early childhood education. Specifically, it seeks to provide ethnographic background on the incorporation of Indigenous communities into preschools, through the participation of the Indigenous Culture…
Descriptors: American Indian Languages, Early Childhood Education, Multicultural Education, Preschools
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