Rejecting the Marginalized Status of Minority Languages - Educational Projects Pushing Back Against Language Endangerment

This book explores Indigenous, tribal and minority (ITM) language education in oral and written communication and in the use of new technologies and online resources for pedagogical purposes. It brings together examples of ITM language education that are challenging the forces that flatten 'languacultures' into artefacts of history.

About the author

Ari Sherris is Associate Professor of Bilingual Education, Texas A&M University-Kingsville, USA. His research interests include Indigenous language revitalization, documentation, ethnography, autoethnography and complex social semiotics. He is coeditor of Making Signs, Translanguaging Ethnographies (Multilingual Matters, 2018).
Susan D. Penfield is Affiliate Faculty in the Department of Linguistics, University of Montana and University of Arizona, USA. Her research interests include Indigenous language policy and planning, revitalization, documentation and interdisciplinary research.

Summary

This book explores Indigenous, tribal and minority (ITM) language education in oral and written communication and in the use of new technologies and online resources for pedagogical purposes. It brings together examples of ITM language education that are challenging the forces that flatten ‘languacultures’ into artefacts of history.

Product details

• Assisted by: Susan Penfield (Editor), Susan D. Penfield (Editor), Ari Sherris (Editor)
• Publisher: Multilingual Matters
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 30.11.2019
• EAN: 9781788926256
• ISBN: 978-1-78892-625-6
• No. of pages: 184
• Dimensions: 156 mm x 234 mm x 10 mm
• Weight: 289 g
• Series: Linguistic Diversity and Language Rights; Linguistic Diversity and Langu
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Education > School education, didactics, methodology; Social sciences, law, business > Ethnology > Folklore