<div>Bernadette,</div>
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<div>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.<br>
<a href="http://www.nhlrc.ucla.edu/">http://www.nhlrc.ucla.edu/</a></div>
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<div>Good luck with this...it is a tough hill to climb, but well worth it for the kids involved!</div>
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<div>Best,</div>
<div>Susan<br></div>
<div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Sep 15, 2010 at 12:39 PM, Bernadette Santamaria <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:bernisantamaria@gmail.com">bernisantamaria@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
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<div>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.</div>
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<div>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.</div>
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<div>Thanks for any info provided on this topic.</div>
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<div>Bernadette A. SantaMaria</div>
<div>WM Apache Language Committee</div></blockquote></div><br><br clear="all"><br>-- <br><font face="georgia,serif">**********************************************************************************************<br></font><em><font face="georgia,serif"><strong>Susan D. Penfield, Ph.D.</strong><br>
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<br>Department of English (Primary)<br>Faculty affiliate in Linguistics, Language, Reading and Culture, <br>Second Language Acquisition and Teaching (SLAT), <br>American Indian Language Development Institute (AILDI)<br>The Southwest Center<br>
University of Arizona,<br>Tucson, Arizona 85721</font><font face="trebuchet ms,sans-serif"><br></font><br><br>