Leoki: A Powerful Voice of Hawaiian Language Revitalization.

Warschauer, Mark; Donaghy, Keola; Kuamoyo, Hale

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ERIC Number: EJ561178

Record Type: CIJE

Publication Date: 1997

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Leoki: A Powerful Voice of Hawaiian Language Revitalization.

Warschauer, Mark; Donaghy, Keola; Kuamoyo, Hale

Computer Assisted Language Learning, v10 n4 p349-61 Sep 1997

Gives an overview of the history of the Hawaiian language and the decline in number of speakers, chronicles efforts to revitalize it, and discusses the role of computing and online communications in this process, focusing on the Leoki bulletin board system, the first fully based on an indigenous language. Activities in an elementary school illustrate success of the approach. (MSE)

Descriptors: Computer Uses in Education, Electronic Mail, Hawaiian, Heritage Education, Information Technology, Internet, Language Maintenance, Second Language Learning, Technological Advancement, Uncommonly Taught Languages

Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Descriptive

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Language: English

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