ELL: Northwest Indigenous Language Institute
Scott DeLancey
delancey at darkwing.uoregon.edu
Mon Mar 29 16:57:27 UTC 1999
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Thought this might be of interest to the list:
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The Second
Northwest Indigenous Language
Institute
June 21-July 9, 1999
University of
Oregon,
Eugene, OR
The
Department of
Linguistics
at the
University of
Oregon
announces the
second annual
Northwest
Indigenous
Language
Institute, to
be held on
the
University
campus June
21-July 9,
1999.
Classes,
designed
specifically
for people
working in
Tribal
language
maintenance
and
revitalization
programs,
will
carry
University of
Oregon
credit.
Three-credit
courses will
meet two
hours per
day; 1-credit
courses one
hour per day.
COURSES
Offerings
will include:
Introduction
to
Language
Teaching
for
Teachers
in
Native
Language
Programs
(3
credits)
Introduction
to
Linguistics
and
Northwest
Languages
for
Teachers
in
Native
Language
Programs
(3
credits)
Workshop
on
Computer
Implementations
for
Native
Language
Programs
(1
credit)
One-day
workshops
on
grant
writing,
audio-visual
production
techniques,
or
other
topics.
Depending on enrollment and available staff, we expect to offer
one or two more advanced courses. Several possibilities are
described on the back of this sheet. We ask for advice from
language programs and communities about which of these you might
find most useful, or other suggestions of classes which might be
more useful than these.
Cost
University of Oregon tuition will be $770 for 7 undergraduate
credit hours. Some scholarship aid will be available.
Housing in University dormitories will be available; the
approximate cost is $650-700 per person for double occupancy,
around $775 for single occupancy. Depending on enrollment, we
expect to offer one or two additional courses besides the basic
courses in language teaching and linguistic analysis.
Possibilities for additional courses include:
Advanced Language Teaching
Morphology and Linguistic Analysis of Northwest Languages:
Principles of analyzing words and sentences, applied to
the analysis of important parts of the grammar of
languages of the area, chosen according to
student
interest.
Phonetics for language analysis and teaching:
How the
sounds of your language and other
languages of the area
are made; how to teach them; different
ways of writing
a Native language (phonetic
transcription, linguist's
system, practical teaching
orthography) and what they
are useful for.
Creating your own linguistic
materials, and linguist's
materials: How to work
with an elder to get the
information you need to
understand the grammar and
write teaching
materials. How to use grammars
and
dictionaries written by
linguists for other linguists.
How to find and use old
documents and recordings of
your language in
libraries and museums.
If you have any ideas about these
or any other courses which you
think might be of interest to you
or your program, please write
comments on the attached.
For further information contact:
Scott DeLancey 541-346-3901
e-mail
delancey at darkwing.uoregon.edu
fax
541-346-3917
Janne
Underriner
541-346-3199
e-mail
jlu at darkwing.uoregon.edu
fax
541-346-3917
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Please detach this page and return or send it to Scott DeLancey,
Dept. of Linguistics, University of Oregon, Eugene, OR 97403
It will help us a lot in planning for NILI, if individuals and
programs who are interested in participating would send us the
following information as soon as possible:
Tribe or program, and contact person:
Number (and names, if possible) of people from your
program potentially interested in attending the
Institute:
Courses they are likely to be interested in:
Do you have suggestions of other courses,
workshops, or
other activities which would make NILI
more useful to
you or your program?
For further information contact:
Scott DeLancey 541-346-3901,e-mail
delancey at darkwing.uoregon.edu
Janne Underriner 541-346-3199, e-mail
jlu at darkwing.uoregon.edu
fax 541-346-3917
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