[RNLD] PhD on language revitalization

Tue Jun 20 10:01:37 UTC 2017

PS Here's a URL for the game:
http://www.jarir.com/kids-development/learning-aids/reading-writing-aids/frank-puzzles-282028.html

On 20 June 2017 at 11:59, Lameen Souag <lameen at gmail.com> wrote:

> Dear Tim,
>
> My 2-year-old son rather enjoys a game (in Arabic, made by a company
> called Frank) that I think qualifies on all these points.  Basically, it
> consists of a set of 2-piece puzzles, with the letter on one piece and a
> picture of something beginning with it on the other.  The game is, for each
> piece, to find its opposite number and put the two together, while saying
> the name of the letter and of the item in the picture.  It's surely
> possible to make the rules of the game more sophisticated, but for a
> 2-year-old this is plenty!  Of course, for best results one of the players
> needs to know the letters already, which I imagine is an issue in this
> case.  But if the pictures are sufficiently unambiguous that might not be
> absolutely necessary.
>
> Best wishes
> Lameen
>
> On 19 June 2017 at 15:58, Brookes, Tim <brookes at champlain.edu> wrote:
>
>> Dear Julia, Ghil'ad, and other members of this list:
>> I'm delighted to hear (as, I'm sure, is David) both your institutions
>> offer a PhD in language revitalization--a shining and somewhat rare
>> illustration of the academic world moving beyond studying such issues to
>> the point where you are equipping your graduates with the capacity to
>> contribute to valuable change.
>> Along those lines, I'm in the process of designing a series of children's
>> games that aim to provide fun while teaching children in
>> indigenous/minority communities the basics of their own writing systems,
>> starting with Mro, Marma and Chakma children at three mother-tongue schools
>> in the Chittagong Hill Tracts in Bangladesh.
>> I would love to hear from any of the members of this list, your
>> colleagues or your students, if you have any suggestions--or, indeed, you'd
>> like to warn me against possible pitfalls, especially if you've had the
>> invaluable experience of having fallen into them yourselves!
>> As you'd imagine, the main criteria are that the games:
>> * involve as little capital expenditure as possible;
>> * be as durable as possible;
>> * have sufficient flexibility that the children might adapt them or even
>> invent their own ways of playing them;
>> * function in areas where there is no electricity, and
>> * are sufficiently self-sustaining that they work even if children have
>> little or no exposure to their own writing system under other everyday
>> circumstances.
>> Thanks for your help, and best wishes to you all in your valuable work.
>> Tim Brookes
>> Founder, the Endangered Alphabets Project
>> www.endangeredalphabets.com
>> https://www.facebook.com/tim.brookes.92
>>
>> On Mon, Jun 19, 2017 at 5:49 AM, Julia Sallabank <js72 at soas.ac.uk> wrote:
>>
>>> Dear David
>>>
>>> You're welcome to apply for a PhD at SOAS, University of London, where
>>> we specialise in language documentation, description and revitalisation. We
>>> have some scholarships for PhD or MA+PhD studies: see
>>> https://www.soas.ac.uk/registry/scholarships/economic-and-so
>>> cial-research-council-esrc-studentships.html
>>>
>>> For funding for a description-based study see
>>> http://www.eldp.net/en/apply/grant+types/   (NB ELDP grants cover
>>> fieldwork costs only, not fees, and exclude language revitalisation).
>>>
>>> The deadline for PhD applications for entry in October is 30 June, but
>>> if you're interested in a scholarship you would have to wait until the
>>> following academic year.
>>>
>>> As with the University of Adelaide, we would expect you to have a
>>> fully-developed research proposal before applying, but we're happy to
>>> discuss draft proposals with applicants.
>>>
>>> Best wishes
>>>
>>> Julia
>>>
>>>
>>> On 19 June 2017 at 08:43, David Valls <davidvalls at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>> Dear members,
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> I assisted at the First International Conference on Revitalization of
>>>> Indigenous and Minoritized Languages in Barcelona.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> I hold a BA on linguistics (University Barcelona), and a MA on
>>>> linguistics (University Leiden).
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> As a Catalan native speaker and as linguist I’ve been always very
>>>> interested in language revitalization, language contact, as well as I'm
>>>> interested in language description.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> http://www.academia.edu/23400897/A_grammar_sketch_of_the_Bugis_language
>>>> <https://mailtrack.io/trace/link/7570b458e1d5448948ae3fd44d9a04085a0c72e6?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.academia.edu%2F23400897%2FA_grammar_sketch_of_the_Bugis_language&userId=59615&signature=a71c72f7349444ac>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7-8jwR9Cj68
>>>> <https://mailtrack.io/trace/link/a4a98e8edacaa51d3fe1ef6b8edf811e30e616ae?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.youtube.com%2Fwatch%3Fv%3D7-8jwR9Cj68&userId=59615&signature=a9cec0402b9521c7>
>>>> (w/ English subtitles)
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sCRm6RzxTZ0
>>>> <https://mailtrack.io/trace/link/b6f7f40a5dabb3a51c9b2715837ce9f846655b16?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.youtube.com%2Fwatch%3Fv%3DsCRm6RzxTZ0&userId=59615&signature=f5642d1dbd454066>
>>>>  (w/ English subtitles)
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> My aim would be to work, by taking preferably a PhD, on a realistic
>>>> language revitalization process and project. As a Catalan and linguist I
>>>> can bring all my experience and expertise.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> So, I am looking for someone to help me out on this task (i.e. tutor,
>>>> university, and a comunity willing to recover its language and give it a
>>>> push).
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> All the best,
>>>>
>>>> David Valls
>>>>
>>>> 
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>   <https://mailtrack.io/> Enviat amb Mailtrack
>>>> <https://mailtrack.io/install?source=signature&lang=ca&referral=davidvalls@gmail.com&idSignature=25>
>>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> --
>>> Dr. Julia Sallabank
>>> Reader in Language Policy and Revitalisation,
>>> SOAS, University of London,
>>> London WC1H 0XG, UK
>>>
>>> Tel. +44 (0)20 7898 4326 <+44%2020%207898%204326>
>>>
>>>
>>
>
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