suggestions anyone?

[MJ Hardman]

Back when I was doing this I had no technology at all beyond a tape recorder
(not useful).  One thing I did was that I introduced the children to a
number of words I thought they might not know from a story, and then I would
read them the story in Jaqaru, always a story that would be immediately
recognizable (one of the ubiquitous Andean tales, known in every Andean
language including Spanish).  They loved it.  Another thing I did that the
children loved was that I would ask them what words they wanted written in
their own language ‹ and they always had plenty, usually the names of their
chacras (their cultivated plots).  These were never easy words and they were
always seriously distorted by the
Spanish version ‹ great learning activity because they wanted it so and
could take it home to the family.
MJ

On 11/24/10 9:41 AM, "Richard Zane Smith" <rzs at WILDBLUE.NET> wrote:

> thanks Doug and Natasha,
> good way to explain it about not "giving away the answer" in class.
> the books (Natasha) sounds excellent...another project! for me to look into.
> (sounds like i need to have some meetings with these teachers)
> 
> Its tough because ...sadly: I'm it. I'm our local language revitalization
> effort,
> which is foolish and even ridiculous. there is no language committee in our
> tribe
> and if anythings going to happen its because I'm insane enough to volunteer to
> attempt it on my own....and this is the 6th year of me  ..."doing it alone"
> 
> You all who have healthy language/culture revitalization efforts
> Have something to thank the Creator for.
> Just don't forget about some of us foolish ones, winging it alone,
> carrying the whole weight but determined not to give up..even if it kills us.
> 
> 'preciate having some pros to bounce ideas upon here on ILAT!
> ske;noh
> Richard
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> On Wed, Nov 24, 2010 at 2:17 AM, Natasha L Warner <nwarner at u.arizona.edu>
> wrote:
>> I think Leanne Hinton's book that's actually a guide to the Master
>> Apprentice program, _How to Keep your Language Alive_, has some good
>> explanations of why immersion without translation is the way to go.  Maybe
>> something in that would help you with how to explain it to the teachers.
>> It's a challenging issue--even people who really know better about
>> immersion so often want to just "help" by providing translation.  Good
>> luck.
>> 
>> Natasha
>> 
>> *****************************************************************************
>> **
>> Natasha Warner
>> Associate Professor, Department of Linguistics
>> University of Arizona
>> PO Box 210028
>> Tucson, AZ 85721-0028
>> U.S.A.
>> 
> 
> 

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