[HERITAGE-LIST] Course offering: University of Victoria (BC) -- immersion language teaching for aboriginal languages - DEADLINE 11 FEBRUARY

[Scott G. McGINNIS]

Announcing a learning opportunity in language preservation and revitalization at the En’owkin Centre in Penticton, BC!  
 
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Methods for Immersion Language Teaching and Learning 
LING 187: Special Topics in Aboriginal Language Revitalization, 1.5 Units
 
Dates: March 3 – 8, 2008 (Please register by February 11.  Late registrations accepted if space permits)
Location: En’owkin Centre, Penticton, BC
Tuition:  $449.10 plus a $60 program materials fee

Immersion formats create highly effective environments in which endangered aboriginal languages can be taught and learned. This six-day intensive course for language teachers and others involved in language preservation and revitalization work, provides an introduction to immersion teaching and learning principles and techniques, and explores three practical immersion methods in order to create a foundation for practical applications in a variety of situations and programs. 

Topics include the nature of full immersion in real world learning, and modifications required for delivery within structured delivery environment. Three immersion models will be discussed by resource people involved in their development and delivery: 
- elementary school immersion model utilizing total physical response (TPR) methods 
- a modified adult classroom immersion model, utilizing associative/cognitive method 
- a small group Master/Apprentice model in which fluent speakers converse with apprentices through full immersion 

Instructor
Jeannette Armstrong, Doctor of Letters HC; University of St. Thomas; BFA, University of Victoria; Fine Arts Diploma, Okanagan UC; Executive Director of the En’owkin Program; and Academic Advisor to the Certificate Program in Aboriginal Language Revitalization.  Jeannette is a PhD candidate, University of Greifswald, Interdisciplinary Studies, Indigenous Literature and Environmental Ethics. She is also part-time with the faculty of Indigenous Studies at UBCO.
Jeannette is an Okanagan Indian who was born on the Penticton Indian Reserve in British Columbia. She is the grandniece of Hum-Ishu-Ma (Mourning Dove, 1888-1936), considered the first Native American woman novelist. Armstrong is a writer, teacher, artist, sculptor, and activist.

She speaks both Okanagan and English and received a traditional education from Okanagan elders and her family and has raised her own two children on the Penticton Indian reserve. 

To register in this learning opportunity please visit http://www.uvcs.uvic.ca/forms/crm/calr-reg.aspx 
This course is part of the Certificate program in Aboriginal Language Revitalization.  Credit and non-credit registration is available.
 
For more information, please contact:
Anissa J. Paulsen
Program Coordinator
 
Cultural Management Programs
Division of Continuing Studies
University of Victoria
PO Box 3030 STN CSC
Victoria, BC  V8W 3N6
 
calr at uvcs.uvic.ca
 
ph:  (250) 721-6119
fax: (250) 721-8774
 
Certificate Program in Aboriginal Language Revitalization:
www.uvcs.uvic.ca/calr