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<body lang="EN-US" link="blue" vlink="purple">What Charles describes sounds like the Peace Corps method of instruction. PC has years of experience with language training, in which future volunteers get intensive instruction (along with technical, health, and cross-culture) over 10-11 weeks. It has proven quite successful at getting the large majority of trainees to at least a basic level (those who don't attain that level get supplementary training). <br/><br/>Not to suggest that it would be practical to duplicate this approach in most other settings, but might there be lessons to be learned from PC's experience?<br/><br/>Don Osborn<br/><div>Sent via BlackBerry by AT&T</div><hr/><div><b>From: </b> "Riley, Charles" <charles.riley@yale.edu>
</div><div><b>Sender: </b> ilat-request@list.arizona.edu
</div><div><b>Date: </b>Thu, 7 Aug 2014 15:31:28 +0000</div><div><b>To: </b>ilat@list.arizona.edu<ilat@list.arizona.edu></div><div><b>ReplyTo: </b> ilat@list.arizona.edu
</div><div><b>Subject: </b>RE: [ilat] colors, numbers, and animals</div><div><br/></div>
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a little at a time, but working largely on substituting pronouns, verbs, and objects into sets of dialogue that would become increasingly familiar. Building up the pronoun grid and several key verbs were important in conveying a sense of quick progress into
the language. Numbers, colors, and animals could be introduced and added in to the dialogues for interest, but they weren’t the primary focus.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"">From:</span></b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif""> ilat-request@list.arizona.edu [mailto:ilat-request@list.arizona.edu]
<b>On Behalf Of </b>Monica Macaulay<br>
<b>Sent:</b> Thursday, August 07, 2014 11:07 AM<br>
<b>To:</b> ilat@list.arizona.edu<br>
<b>Subject:</b> Re: [ilat] colors, numbers, and animals<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">I work with the Menominee, and they are very aware of the problem of just teaching these topics (exactly what you listed!). They want their teachers to move beyond this but the teachers are (mostly) language learners themselves, so it’s
been difficult. If anyone has any ideas about methodology, that would be great. (They’ve done some stuff with TPR, but that’s limited.)<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">On Aug 7, 2014, at 10:01 AM, Wayne Leman <<a href="mailto:wleman1949b@gmail.com">wleman1949b@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">A number of methods are used for teaching indigenous languages. One that seems commonly used for teaching Native American languages in the U.S. is a focus on memorization of
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