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Borgia, Melissa Elayne – Language Documentation & Conservation, 2014
Seneca elder Sandy Dowdy and her granddaughter Autumn Crouse direct a language nest school for children aged two to five years in a small longhouse-shaped building, "Ganöhsesge:kha:' Hë:nödeyë:sta'":, or the Faithkeepers School, on the Seneca Allegany Territory in upstate New York. They practice immersion teaching and use forms of…
Descriptors: American Indian Education, American Indian Languages, Nonverbal Communication, Sign Language
Eichstaedt, Peter – Diverse: Issues in Higher Education, 2006
A national movement is afoot to revitalize the hundreds of native languages that once flourished across North America and the Hawaiian islands. Experts say that because the majority of native language speakers are passing away, almost all of these languages could be gone by 2050. While universities have been a reservoir for the study and research…
Descriptors: Languages, Immersion Programs, English (Second Language), Native Language Instruction
Christian, Donna; Mahrer, Cindy – 1992
The information on two-way bilingual programs presented in this volume was gathered as the first phase of a study for the National Center for Research on Cultural Diversity and Second Language Learning. Two-way bilingual programs integrate language minority and language majority students and provide instruction in and through two languages. This…
Descriptors: Bilingual Education Programs, Bilingual Instructional Materials, Elementary Secondary Education, English (Second Language)