Lakota LLEAPs to the Leading Edge of Second-Language Education (fwd link)

[Phillip E Cash Cash]

Tue Nov 16 07:07:53 2010 Pacific Time

      Lakota LLEAPs to the Leading Edge of Second-Language Education

       PIERRE, S.D., Nov. 16 (AScribe Newswire) -- The revival of the
Lakota language opens a new chapter in 2011, as two institutions of
higher learning in the Great Plains initiate undergraduate degree
majors for teachers of Lakota as a second language-making Lakota the
first Native American language to achieve this kind of professional
recognition.

       Beginning in January 2011, the University of South Dakota (USD)
School of Education (Vermillion, SD) and the Sitting Bull College
(SBC) Education Department (Standing Rock Sioux Tribe, Fort Yates, ND)
will each offer a two-year Lakota Language Teaching and Learning
curriculum, as a degree major for a Bachelor of Arts in Education at
USD or Bachelor of Science in Education at SBC.

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