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[Susan Penfield]

Bernadette,

I suspect you will get a range of answers to your query for help with this
issue. One place that might be helpful and willing to help you track down
the research you need to support your ideas about integration into the
schools is the National Heritage Language Resource Center -- To be sure,
most of their work is not focused on indigenous languages, but some is and
they do have a lot of facts about language education (and the impact on
children who are learners of heritage languages generally) availale.  I
suggest you contact them directly with your question.
http://www.nhlrc.ucla.edu/

Good luck with this...it is a tough hill to climb, but well worth it for the
kids involved!

Best,
Susan
On Wed, Sep 15, 2010 at 12:39 PM, Bernadette Santamaria <
bernisantamaria at gmail.com> wrote:

> All:
>
> For a community-level language committee, a goal is to get the local school
> board to support Apache language teaching in the schools here in addition to
> the educational outreach we are attempting to get the older generations to
> re-learn and make decisions to once again teach the younger generation our
> language.  One issue is that due to administrative staff changes (school
> supt, principals, etc), there has not been continuation in these efforts by
> local language teachers at schools and the new administrators (gathered from
> recent presentations they did to the Tribal Council) seem to not exclude
> local language/culture teaching from the school curriculae.
>
> In order to present this committee's recommendations to include these
> courses and to strengthen support of local language teachers in the school
> system, it was deemed that we need to convince these newer school
> administrators of the importance of providing this teachings for our
> children in local schools who comprise over 90% enrollment of native
> children in them.  We request names of books, articles, authors, etc. that
> you can provide us that emphasize the reasons why and how native children
> benefit from inclusion of their native language/cultural knowledge in school
> curriculae, need examples of tribes/schools that are successful, etc.
>
> Thanks for any info provided on this topic.
>
> Bernadette A. SantaMaria
> WM Apache Language Committee
>



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*Susan D. Penfield, Ph.D.
**(Currently on leave to the National Science Foundation.
E-mail: spenfiel at nsf.gov
Phone at NSF: 703-292-4535)*


Department of English (Primary)
Faculty affiliate in Linguistics, Language, Reading and Culture,
Second Language Acquisition and Teaching (SLAT),
American Indian Language Development Institute (AILDI)
The Southwest Center
University of Arizona,
Tucson, Arizona 85721
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