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<DIV>Richard, what you are doing invites a special legacy for the people, and
even though it may not seem to be valued, it lights a way for language to
flourish. Many years ago (like the 1970's) Berty Seigle developed a
technique call Total Physical Response (TPR). As you are exposing very young
children to language, please consider using her approach, as it involves
movement and action in language learning. Gradually the children anticipate the
language and begin using it themselves, not in a word-by-word context, but
actually in descriptive ways. There is no "translation" necessary. And the
teachers, looking on or looking in, can become involved as well.</DIV>
<DIV>While some teacher inservice workshops might be helpful, without
administrative backing they might just be resented. Try the TPR approach (or
some iteration of it) instead.</DIV>
<DIV>In Spirit,</DIV>
<DIV>Dorothy Martinez-K</DIV>
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<DIV>In a message dated 11/24/2010 6:41:34 A.M. Pacific Standard Time,
rzs@WILDBLUE.NET writes:</DIV>
<BLOCKQUOTE style="BORDER-LEFT: blue 2px solid; PADDING-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px"><FONT style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: transparent" color=#000000 size=2 face=Arial><FONT size=2>thanks Doug and Natasha,<BR></FONT>good way to explain it about not
"giving away the answer" in class.<BR>
<DIV class=gmail_quote>the books (Natasha) sounds excellent...another project!
for me to look into.</DIV>
<DIV class=gmail_quote>(sounds like i need to have some meetings with these
teachers)</DIV>
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<DIV class=gmail_quote>Its tough because ...sadly: <B>I'm it</B>. I'm our
local language revitalization effort,</DIV>
<DIV class=gmail_quote>which is foolish and even ridiculous. there is no
language committee in our tribe</DIV>
<DIV class=gmail_quote>and if anythings going to happen its because I'm insane
enough to volunteer to</DIV>
<DIV class=gmail_quote>attempt it on my own....and this is the 6th year of me
..."doing it alone"</DIV>
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<DIV class=gmail_quote>You all who have healthy language/culture
revitalization efforts</DIV>
<DIV class=gmail_quote>Have something to thank the Creator for.</DIV>
<DIV class=gmail_quote>Just don't forget about some of us foolish ones,
winging it alone,</DIV>
<DIV class=gmail_quote>carrying the whole weight but determined not to give
up..even if it kills us.</DIV>
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<DIV class=gmail_quote>'preciate having some pros to bounce ideas upon here on
ILAT!</DIV>
<DIV class=gmail_quote>ske;noh</DIV>
<DIV class=gmail_quote>Richard</DIV>
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<DIV class=gmail_quote>On Wed, Nov 24, 2010 at 2:17 AM, Natasha L Warner <SPAN dir=ltr><<A title=mailto:nwarner@u.arizona.edu href="mailto:nwarner@u.arizona.edu">nwarner@u.arizona.edu</A>></SPAN>
wrote:<BR>
<BLOCKQUOTE style="BORDER-LEFT: #ccc 1px solid; MARGIN: 0px 0px 0px 0.8ex; PADDING-LEFT: 1ex" class=gmail_quote>I think Leanne Hinton's book that's actually a guide to
the Master<BR>Apprentice program, _How to Keep your Language Alive_, has
some good<BR>explanations of why immersion without translation is the way to
go. Maybe<BR>something in that would help you with how to explain it
to the teachers.<BR>It's a challenging issue--even people who really know
better about<BR>immersion so often want to just "help" by providing
translation.
Good<BR>luck.<BR><BR>Natasha<BR><BR>*******************************************************************************<BR>Natasha
Warner<BR>Associate Professor, Department of Linguistics<BR>University of
Arizona<BR>PO Box 210028<BR>Tucson, AZ
85721-0028<BR>U.S.A.<BR><BR></BLOCKQUOTE></DIV><BR><BR clear=all><BR>--
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is easier to build strong children than to repair broken men."</P>
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