[HERITAGE-LIST] Stabilizing Indigenous Languages Conference

[Anthony Aristar]

Full Title: 14th Annual Stabilizing Indigenous Languages Symposium 
Short Title: SILS 14

Date: 01-Jun-2007 - 03-Jun-2007
Location: Mt. Pleasant, Michigan, USA Contact Person: Margaret Noori
Meeting Email: mnoori at umich.edu
Web Site: http://linguistlist.org/sils/index.html

Linguistic Field(s): Applied Linguistics; Language Documentation

Call Deadline: 15-May-2007

Meeting Description:

This year at the 14th annual SILS (Stabilizing Indigenous Languages 
Symposium) language instructors, technology experts and linguists will 
gather again to share the work, and the dreams, of language communities 
all over the world. The theme is 'Working Together We Can Bring Back 
the Language: How Technology Can Make it Happen.'

SILS 14 is hosted by the Saginaw Chippewa Tribal Nation, Eastern 
Michigan University, and the LINGUIST List at the Soaring Eagle Casino 
& Resort in Mt. Pleasant, Michigan.

Particularly invited are presentations describing projects related to 
using technology in language documentation and preservation, 
self-documentation of endangered languages, innovative educational 
ideas, and proficiency outcomes. Presentations can take the following 
formats: 20 minute papers (plus question period), 15 minute 
demonstrations of technologies used to preserve and stabilize 
languages, poster presentations summarizing projects, and 1 hour 
workshops on successful methods of language preservation that can be 
adapted by a wide number of language groups.

Selection notification: 7th May

Suggested topics for talks, demos, and workshops include: web-based 
methods of preservation, instruction, and collaboration, options for 
distance learning, linguistic and cultural preservation, methods of 
successful instruction, revising languages without speakers, 
repatriation of language texts and recordings, and multi-generational 
community-based language initiatives.

Further information is available at:
http://linguistlist.org/sils/index.html
Telephone: (734) 487-0144 Fax: (734) 482-0132