<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><header style="color: rgb(85, 85, 85); font-family: Oxygen, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 25px; "><h2 class="post-title" style="font-family: 'Crimson Text', Georgia, serif; font-weight: 400; line-height: 1.1; letter-spacing: -0.015em; font-size: 26px; "><b style="color: rgb(17, 17, 17); font-size: 24px; letter-spacing: -0.015em; line-height: 1.1; "><i>Stabilizing Indigenous Languages</i></b></h2></header><div class="post-body" id="post_body_605180" style="color: rgb(85, 85, 85); font-family: Oxygen, sans-serif; line-height: 25px; "><div><p style="font-size: 16px; margin: 24px 0px; "><a href="http://sils2014.hawaii-conference.com/" style="color: rgb(43, 108, 194); text-decoration: none; ">http://sils2014.hawaii-conference.com/</a> </p><p style="margin: 24px 0px; "><p style="margin: 0px 0px 24px; font-size: 12px; line-height: normal; font-family: Helvetica; "><b>Wednesday, January 15th to Sunday, January 19th, 2014</b></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 24px; font-size: 12px; line-height: normal; font-family: Helvetica; ">Hilo Hawaiian Hotel & University of Hawai‘i at Hilo Campus<br>
Hilo, Island of Hawai‘i</p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 24px; font-size: 12px; line-height: normal; font-family: Helvetica; "><b>He waʻa ke kula; na ka ʻōlelo e uli</b> <i>(schools are canoes; language steers them)</i></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 24px; font-size: 12px; line-height: normal; font-family: Helvetica; ">SILS 2014 will be hosted Wednesday, January 15th to Sunday, January 19th, 2014, by the University of Hawaiʻi at Hilo in its newly completed Hawaiian language building, Hale ʻŌlelo.</p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 24px; font-size: 12px; line-height: normal; font-family: Helvetica; ">Hawaiʻi State, and the district of Hilo in particular on Hawaiʻi island, has one of the highest concentrations of young Native American language speakers anywhere. Yet, fifty years ago no children spoke Hawaiian in Hilo. The change is the result of aligning school programming with an official language status.</p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 24px; font-size: 12px; line-height: normal; font-family: Helvetica; ">Visits to language immersion programs from preschool to the doctorate will be central to SILS 2014, as will be post-visitation discussion groups.</p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 24px; font-size: 12px; line-height: normal; font-family: Helvetica; ">Challenges such as government testing, developing curricula, and parent involvement will receive special attention.</p></p></div></div><div apple-content-edited="true">
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