[RNLD] PhD on language revitalization

[Brookes, Tim]

Excellent. Thanks so much! Can you send me a photo when you have the time?
Cheers,
Tim

On Tue, Jun 20, 2017 at 9:23 AM, Claire Bowern <clairebowern at gmail.com>
wrote:

> We have a variant of this game where the puzzles are 3 pieces, with short
> words that name the picture. It’s a huge hit.
> Claire
>
> On Jun 20, 2017, at 6:01 AM, Lameen Souag <lameen at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> PS Here's a URL for the game: http://www.jarir.com/kids-
> development/learning-aids/reading-writing-aids/frank-puzzles-282028.html
>
> On 20 June 2017 at 11:59, Lameen Souag <lameen at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Dear Tim,
>>
>> My 2-year-old son rather enjoys a game (in Arabic, made by a company
>> called Frank) that I think qualifies on all these points.  Basically, it
>> consists of a set of 2-piece puzzles, with the letter on one piece and a
>> picture of something beginning with it on the other.  The game is, for each
>> piece, to find its opposite number and put the two together, while saying
>> the name of the letter and of the item in the picture.  It's surely
>> possible to make the rules of the game more sophisticated, but for a
>> 2-year-old this is plenty!  Of course, for best results one of the players
>> needs to know the letters already, which I imagine is an issue in this
>> case.  But if the pictures are sufficiently unambiguous that might not be
>> absolutely necessary.
>>
>> Best wishes
>> Lameen
>>
>> On 19 June 2017 at 15:58, Brookes, Tim <brookes at champlain.edu> wrote:
>>
>>> Dear Julia, Ghil'ad, and other members of this list:
>>> I'm delighted to hear (as, I'm sure, is David) both your institutions
>>> offer a PhD in language revitalization--a shining and somewhat rare
>>> illustration of the academic world moving beyond studying such issues to
>>> the point where you are equipping your graduates with the capacity to
>>> contribute to valuable change.
>>> Along those lines, I'm in the process of designing a series of
>>> children's games that aim to provide fun while teaching children in
>>> indigenous/minority communities the basics of their own writing systems,
>>> starting with Mro, Marma and Chakma children at three mother-tongue schools
>>> in the Chittagong Hill Tracts in Bangladesh.
>>> I would love to hear from any of the members of this list, your
>>> colleagues or your students, if you have any suggestions--or, indeed, you'd
>>> like to warn me against possible pitfalls, especially if you've had the
>>> invaluable experience of having fallen into them yourselves!
>>> As you'd imagine, the main criteria are that the games:
>>> * involve as little capital expenditure as possible;
>>> * be as durable as possible;
>>> * have sufficient flexibility that the children might adapt them or even
>>> invent their own ways of playing them;
>>> * function in areas where there is no electricity, and
>>> * are sufficiently self-sustaining that they work even if children have
>>> little or no exposure to their own writing system under other everyday
>>> circumstances.
>>> Thanks for your help, and best wishes to you all in your valuable work.
>>> Tim Brookes
>>> Founder, the Endangered Alphabets Project
>>> www.endangeredalphabets.com
>>> https://www.facebook.com/tim.brookes.92
>>>
>>> On Mon, Jun 19, 2017 at 5:49 AM, Julia Sallabank <js72 at soas.ac.uk>
>>> wrote:
>>>
>>>> Dear David
>>>>
>>>> You're welcome to apply for a PhD at SOAS, University of London, where
>>>> we specialise in language documentation, description and revitalisation. We
>>>> have some scholarships for PhD or MA+PhD studies: see
>>>> https://www.soas.ac.uk/registry/scholarships/economic-and-so
>>>> cial-research-council-esrc-studentships.html
>>>>
>>>> For funding for a description-based study see
>>>> http://www.eldp.net/en/apply/grant+types/   (NB ELDP grants cover
>>>> fieldwork costs only, not fees, and exclude language revitalisation).
>>>>
>>>> The deadline for PhD applications for entry in October is 30 June, but
>>>> if you're interested in a scholarship you would have to wait until the
>>>> following academic year.
>>>>
>>>> As with the University of Adelaide, we would expect you to have a
>>>> fully-developed research proposal before applying, but we're happy to
>>>> discuss draft proposals with applicants.
>>>>
>>>> Best wishes
>>>>
>>>> Julia
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> On 19 June 2017 at 08:43, David Valls <davidvalls at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> Dear members,
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> I assisted at the First International Conference on Revitalization of
>>>>> Indigenous and Minoritized Languages in Barcelona.
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> I hold a BA on linguistics (University Barcelona), and a MA on
>>>>> linguistics (University Leiden).
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> As a Catalan native speaker and as linguist I’ve been always very
>>>>> interested in language revitalization, language contact, as well as I'm
>>>>> interested in language description.
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> http://www.academia.edu/23400897/A_grammar_sketch_of_the_Bug
>>>>> is_language
>>>>> <https://mailtrack.io/trace/link/7570b458e1d5448948ae3fd44d9a04085a0c72e6?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.academia.edu%2F23400897%2FA_grammar_sketch_of_the_Bugis_language&userId=59615&signature=a71c72f7349444ac>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7-8jwR9Cj68
>>>>> <https://mailtrack.io/trace/link/a4a98e8edacaa51d3fe1ef6b8edf811e30e616ae?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.youtube.com%2Fwatch%3Fv%3D7-8jwR9Cj68&userId=59615&signature=a9cec0402b9521c7>
>>>>> (w/ English subtitles)
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sCRm6RzxTZ0
>>>>> <https://mailtrack.io/trace/link/b6f7f40a5dabb3a51c9b2715837ce9f846655b16?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.youtube.com%2Fwatch%3Fv%3DsCRm6RzxTZ0&userId=59615&signature=f5642d1dbd454066>
>>>>>  (w/ English subtitles)
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> My aim would be to work, by taking preferably a PhD, on a realistic
>>>>> language revitalization process and project. As a Catalan and linguist I
>>>>> can bring all my experience and expertise.
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> So, I am looking for someone to help me out on this task (i.e. tutor,
>>>>> university, and a comunity willing to recover its language and give it a
>>>>> push).
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> All the best,
>>>>>
>>>>> David Valls
>>>>>
>>>>> ​​
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>   <https://mailtrack.io/> Enviat amb Mailtrack
>>>>> <https://mailtrack.io/install?source=signature&lang=ca&referral=davidvalls@gmail.com&idSignature=25>
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> --
>>>> Dr. Julia Sallabank
>>>> Reader in Language Policy and Revitalisation,
>>>> SOAS, University of London,
>>>> London WC1H 0XG, UK
>>>>
>>>> Tel. +44 (0)20 7898 4326 <+44%2020%207898%204326>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>
>>
>
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