Online classes help preserve the Navajo language

[Francis Hult]

Via lgpolicy List...
 

Online Classes Help Preserve the Navajo Language

 

A virtual high school lets students study a tongue that has a dwindling pool of teachers -- and speakers.

 

When high school junior Reed Witherspoon heard about the Chief Manuelito Scholarship for high-achieving Navajo students, she knew she wanted it. Not only did the scholarship offer $7,000 a year for college but it also came with a requirement she was happy to fulfill: To be eligible, she'd have to take courses on Navajo language and government. The return to her roots -- Witherspoon has two grandparents who speak Navajo -- would make her family happy, and it would be a small step toward keeping an endangered language from disappearing. The problem was finding a way to study the language in the first place. 

 

Full story:

http://www.edutopia.org/technology-education-navajo-language-preservation

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