Endangered languages and language learning
Subtitle: proceedings of the conference FEL XII, 24-27 September 2008 Fryske Akademy, It Aljemint, Ljouwert/Leeuwarden, The Netherlands
By: editors, Tjeerd de Graaf, Nicholas Ostler and Reinier Salverda.
Contributors: Graaf, Tjeerd de.; Ostler, Nicholas.; Salverda, R., 1948-; Foundation for Endangered Languages.; Fryske Akademy.; Mercator European Research Centre on Multilingualism and Language Learning
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: Foundation for Endangered Languages; Fryske Academy
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Bath, UK; Ljouwert/Leeurwarden
Language: eng
Number of pages: 238
ISBN-13: 9780956021007; 9789062737895
Subjects: Endangered languages -- Congresses; Language and languages -- Study and teaching -- Congresses; Indigenous peoples -- Congresses; Language revival -- Congresses; Education - Language - Indigenous languages; Uitstervende talen; Minderheidstalen; Taalverwerving; Taalonderwijs; Europe; Canada; Asia
Genres: Congresses
Other titles: FEL XII :
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Keynote 1: How can academic institutions help support an endangered language? : the case of North Frisian / Alastair Walker; title: Learning the details: Gaps in linguistic analyses and their ramifications for teaching endangered languages / Pamela Innes; title: Nivkh syntax in educational perspective / Ekaterina Gruzdeva; title: How majority languages influence minority languages: the linguistic mechanisms and some consequences for language maintenance through education / Eric Hoekstra and Bouke Slofstra; title: Attempting to document and revitalise Kormakiti Maronite Arabic / Chryso Hadjidemetriou; title: Different approaches in the classroom: Developing new Yiddish pedagogical resources / Lily Okalani Kahn; title: Difficulties of Teaching Kurdish in a European university / Hashem Ahmadzadeh; title: Integrating documentation and formal teaching of Kari'nja : design and use of teaching materials based on documentary materials / Raquel-Maria Yamada; title: Endangered languages and Japanese language education in Sakhalin / Yoshiyuki Asahi; title: Mother tongue classes at school in the context of Selkup, Ket and Evenki communities / Olga Kazakevich; title: Language policies - impact on language maintenance and teaching: focus on Malaysia, Singapore and the Philippines / Maya Khemlani David; title: School contexts - 1: Sociolinguistic description of the Priuralskij County in the Yamal- Nenetskij autonomous district / Roza Laptander; title: Learning of minority languages in Yunnan, China / Picus Sizhi Ding; title: Language immersion in endangered Pamiri communties: elicitation strategies in tutorial work / Vladimir Ivanov; title: School contexts II: the presence (or absence) in education of minority and regional languages in one European and one Asian context / Paolo Coluzzi; title: Gaelic language erosion and and revitalisation on the Isle of Skye, Scotland / Dick Smakman and Cassandra Smith-Christmas; title: Bilingualism, language teaching, language transmission and language endangerment: the case of Amazigh in Morocco / Yamina El Kirat, Ell Allame; title: Language policy, endangered language research and teaching experience in the Russian Federation / Ljubov Radnaeva; title: Section 5: Innovative methods: How information and communication technology can help language preservation and education / Hindrik Sijens; title: Mother tongue, language of immersion. What can the school do to revitalise minorized languages? / Itziar Idiazabal, Estibaliz Amorrortu, Cecilia Odé; title: Preserving endangered languages of local speech variants in Kamchatka; title: Motivating young people to learn endangered languages / Julia Sallabank; title: Winter schools of the Latgalian language and culture in Achinsk Pedagogical College (Krasnoyarsk Region, Russia) / Solveta Logina; title: Keynote 3: European minority languages: endangered or revived? / Durk Gorter; title: Language documentation and pedagogy: seeking outcomes and accountability / David Nathan and Meili Fang; title: Section 6: Multilingualism & diaspora: Where there is no teacher: language instruction in diaspora / Marit Vamarasi; title: Teaching in multilingual areas with a minority language : guidelines for a European training model / Olimpia Rasom; title: The learning of endangered mother tongue languages of minority, immigrant communities in multilingual contexts: the case of Malayalam in Malaysia / Mohana Nambiar and Subramaniam Govindasamy; title: Session 7: Policy overview: Some remarks on the implementation of the European Charter for regional or minority languages in the Netherlands; title: Threats to language immersion in endangered language communities: the case of Navarre / Iulen Urbiola; title: Endangered Aboriginal languages in Canada: trends, patterns and prospects in language learning / Mary Jane Norris and Marianne Snider; title: UNESCO and endangered languages / Vincent Wintermans; title: Mercator: creating a future for languages / Cor van der Meer and Alex Riemersma.