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Showing 1 to 20 of 21 for “"language loss"”.
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When we speak our languages : ideologies of language loss and revitalization
Thesis (M.A.)--Michigan State University. American Studies, 2010
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Language and Museums: Supporting Alaska Native Languages Through Collaborative Networking
<p>With the ever-increasing risk of language loss and possible extinction of the world's Indigenous languages, museums are quickly becoming active supporters and valuable resources for communities engaged in revitalization initiatives. Although working with language material is inherently difficult …
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Development of a Hypermedia Template Using Whole Language Instructional Methods for the Preservation of Native American Languages
… study addresses the problem of Native American language loss through the development of a new instructional model to teach indigenous languages to Native American learners. Whole language methods advocated in second language instruction incorporate observational learning strategies - strategies …
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Exploring Perspectives on Landscape and Language among Kaike Speakers in Dolpa, Nepal
The majority of the world’s languages are in danger of extinction within this century. Of the more than 6000 languages in the world, 4000-5000 are spoken by Indigenous peoples. Accompanying the loss of languages is the loss of the capacity for these peoples to transmit those aspects of their …
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Exploring Perspectives on Landscape and Language among Kaike Speakers in Dolpa, Nepal
The majority of the world’s languages are in danger of extinction within this century. Of the more than 6000 languages in the world, 4000-5000 are spoken by Indigenous peoples. Accompanying the loss of languages is the loss of the capacity for these peoples to transmit those aspects of their …
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Creating Curriculum Cartographers to Instruct English Language Learners and Support Heritage Languages
<p>Students learning English as a second language are using the ESL teacher’s curriculum and instruction as their primary means for becoming privileged bilinguals. However, teachers are being provided textbooks with little direction as to how to build an inclusive curriculum plan that supports …
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Tongue -Tied: Sociocultural Change, Language, and Language Ideology Among the Oglala Lakota (Pine Ridge Sioux)
The number of languages spoken in the world declined considerably throughout the 20th century. In the last decade of that period, initiatives to revitalize endangered languages rose dramatically. However, in most cases revitalization initiatives did not halt or significantly slow language loss. In …
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Keeping Kids in School: A Slippery Slope for Miskitu Families Living in the Pearl Lagoon Basin of Nicaragua
… and all but one speaks Miskitu as their first language. Participants revealed reasons for dropping out of school by discussing their school experiences, the elementary school curriculum, and indications of the Miskitu language and culture in and out of school. A variety of themes emerged from …
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The Electric: a novel and critical commentary investigating narrative disruption in sign language, cinemagoing, and trauma
… theme of research in the fields of British Sign Language, cinemagoing, and remembered trauma. The novel is comprised of two interwoven time-frames. Through the middle part of the twentieth century, Daisy, unhappy in her marriage to an ambitious policeman, takes solace in cinema, and a …
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Code-Switching and Language Ideology in a Northern Dene Community
… with the bodies of scholarly literature on the language and language family, and on code-switching and language shift, provide the background and context for this study. A fusion of linguistic (language documentation and conversation analysis), ethnographic (participant observation) and …
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Processing events : investigating event conceptualisation in aphasia
… because of trouble in processing situations in a language-ready fashion. A number of models of language production include a level at which messages are shaped to the demands of a particular language system. However, the relation between such conceptual processing and production in aphasia has …
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Linguistic rights in Africa: A critical analysis of the survivability of indigenous languages of Namibia
The call for the protection and promotion of languages, especially minority languages has gained prominence in recent years largely due to awareness campaigns by academics and human rights organisations. The United Nations through its agency the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural …
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Deficits in Auditory, Cognitive, and Motor Processing Following Reversible MCAO in Mice: Understanding the Human Stroke Phenotype
<p>Stoke is characterized by a loss or alteration in neurological and/or bodily function resulting from a cerebral vascular accident (interruption of blood flow to the brain). Acute ischemic stroke is the third leading cause of death in the United States, and the leading cause of long-term …
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Factors that affect biliteracy development and maintenance of Swahili in bilingual (Swahili-English) speaking children
… by sociocognitive and sociocultural theories of language and literacy, the study explores the factors at home and school that supported the Swahili speaking children’s bilingual and biliteracy development and how well the children comprehended and wrote narrative and expository texts in English …
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Marra and Kriol : the loss and maintenance of knowledge across a language shift boundary
… a significant extent it remains unclear what the loss of a language actually entails in cultural terms. In the Roper River Region of the Northern Territory few Marra people speak their heritage language, shifting almost completely to becoming a Kriol-speaking population. This study considers the …
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Marra and Kriol : the loss and maintenance of knowledge across a language shift boundary
… a significant extent it remains unclear what the loss of a language actually entails in cultural terms. In the Roper River Region of the Northern Territory few Marra people speak their heritage language, shifting almost completely to becoming a Kriol-speaking population. This study considers the …
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Perceptions of Bilingualism and Home Language Maintenance and Loss: A Study of Latino Parents at a San Francisco Bay Area Elementary Charter School
… to their early elementary school children's home language use. To fill the gap in research, this study explores the relationship between first generation Latino parent perspectives of bilingualism, home language maintenance and loss, and the intersection of culture and identity in an elementary …
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Perder uma língua: o bilinguismo na comunidade portuguesa na África do Sul
O fluxo migratório existente em todo o mundo, desde sempre, e por variados motivos, levou portugueses a diversos locais. Adjacente ao processo de adaptação neste fluxo migratório está a adaptação à língua local. Neste processo, muitos indivíduos se tornam bilingues, e muitas vezes ocorre a perda de …
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Korean emergent bilingual students’ language use and translanguaging
… how emergent bilinguals developed their English language and literacy skills (e.g., Francis, Lesaux, & August, 2006), but very little attention has been given to students' language and literacy development in their heritage language (HL) (August & Shanahan, 2010; Goldenberg, 2011; Shanahan & …
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Effects of Language Shift on Families and Young Children
… when these families make decisions about the language use in their homes. These decisions may be intentional or be a result of situations that evolve over time. Nevertheless young children in the home will be impacted. Some factors that affect patents’ decisions are community language use, …
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