Book shares native student insights

[Francis Hult]

The Vancouver Sun

 

Book shares native student insights

 

First nations children don't like to show off by answering their teacher's questions, research shows

 

First nations students are dramatically different learners than their non-native peers, and that difference is apparent from as young as six, a researcher from Slippery Rock University in Pennsylvania has found.

 

Frederick White recently published his book, Ancestral Language Acquisition Among Native Americans: A Study of a Haida Language Class, after spending time researching a Grade 1 Skidegate elementary class.

 

During his time on the Queen Charlotte Islands, White observed 16 distinctive elements of first nations learning styles.

 

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