suggestions anyone?

[Heather Souter]

Taanshi, Richard,

I am wondering if the teachers you work with might not benefit from viewing
the following videos by the Gift of Language and Culture Project on
YouTube....
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2WtNWzzZcIo&feature=recentlik
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CBs6XE6SpIE&feature=related
And also taking a tour of their website....
http://www.giftoflanguageandculture.ca/

Minnie McKenzie, site coordinator, and the other staff of GCLP are
fantastic, committed people and understand the power of immersion for
teaching language.  (I know a number of them personally.) They are
supportive all people who struggle to revitalize /maintain their languages.
Note that they work with a number of different languages and dialects as
part of their project....  I know that possibilities exist for localization
of some of resources they have created. (Of course, we all have different
cultures, so the images may not work for you and your people, but there may
be some that could....)  Anyhow, I am sure they would welcome contact from
you....
http://www.giftoflanguageandculture.ca/comments.html

Eekoshi.
Heather



On Wed, Nov 24, 2010 at 8:41 AM, Richard Zane Smith <rzs at wildblue.net>wrote:

> thanks Doug and Natasha,
> good way to explain it about not "giving away the answer" in class.
> the books (Natasha) sounds excellent...another project! for me to look
> into.
> (sounds like i need to have some meetings with these teachers)
>
> Its tough because ...sadly: *I'm it*. I'm our local language
> revitalization effort,
> which is foolish and even ridiculous. there is no language committee in our
> tribe
> and if anythings going to happen its because I'm insane enough to volunteer
> to
> attempt it on my own....and this is the 6th year of me  ..."doing it alone"
>
> You all who have healthy language/culture revitalization efforts
> Have something to thank the Creator for.
> Just don't forget about some of us foolish ones, winging it alone,
> carrying the whole weight but determined not to give up..even if it kills
> us.
>
> 'preciate having some pros to bounce ideas upon here on ILAT!
> ske;noh
> Richard
>
>
>
>
>
> On Wed, Nov 24, 2010 at 2:17 AM, Natasha L Warner <nwarner at u.arizona.edu>wrote:
>
>> I think Leanne Hinton's book that's actually a guide to the Master
>> Apprentice program, _How to Keep your Language Alive_, has some good
>> explanations of why immersion without translation is the way to go.  Maybe
>> something in that would help you with how to explain it to the teachers.
>> It's a challenging issue--even people who really know better about
>> immersion so often want to just "help" by providing translation.  Good
>> luck.
>>
>> Natasha
>>
>>
>> *******************************************************************************
>> Natasha Warner
>> Associate Professor, Department of Linguistics
>> University of Arizona
>> PO Box 210028
>> Tucson, AZ 85721-0028
>> U.S.A.
>>
>>
>
>
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>
> "It is easier to build strong children than to repair broken men."
>
> - Frederick Douglass
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