The Green Book of Language Revitalization in Practice

469 Pages·2001·112.062 MB·

by  Leanne Hinton, Kenneth Hale

The Green Book of Language Revitalization in Practice

The Green Book
of Language Revitalization in Practice
Edited by
Leanne Hinton
University of California, Berkeley
Berkeley, California
and
Ken Hale
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Cambridge, Massachusetts
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2013
Originally published by Academic Press, San Diego, California, USA, in 2001 under ISBN 0-12349354-4.
Library of Congress Control Number: 2013941739
ISBN 978-90-04-25449-7 (paperback)
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To the brave people who work against all odds to help their endangered heritage languages survive

Contents
About the Title xi 4. " ... To Help Assure the Survival and
Acknowledgments xiii Continuing Vitality of Native American
List of Contributors xv Languages" 45
ROBERT D. ARNOLD
PART
I P A R T
Ill
INTRODUOlON
LANGUAGE PLANNING
1. Language Revitalization:
An Overview 3 5. Language Planning 51
LEANNE HINTON LEANNE HINTON
Introduction to the Pueblo Languages 61
2. Diversity in Local Language
LEANNE HINTON
Maintenance and Restoration:
A Reason For Optimism 19
ANNA ASH, JESSIE LITTLE DOE FERMINO, AND KEN HALE 6. Native Language Planning: A Pilot Process
in the Acoma Pueblo Community 63
CHRISTINE P. SIMS
P A R T
II 7. The Key To Cultural Survival: Language
Planning and Revitalization in the Pueblo de
LANGUAGE POLICY Cochiti 75
REGIS PECOS AND REBECCA BLUM-MARTINEZ
3. Federal Language Policy and Indigenous
Languages in the United States 39 The Navajo Language: I 83
LEANNE HINTON KEN HALE
vii
viii Contents
8. Navajo Head Start Language Study 87 P A R T
v
PAUL R. PLATERO
IMMERSION
PART
IV
14. Teaching Methods 1 79
LEANNE HINTON
MAINTENANCE. AND REVITALIZATION
OF NATIONAL INDIGENOUS
The Karuk Language 19 1
LANGUAGES
LEANNE HINTON
9. Introduction to Revitalization of National
15. Teaching Well, Learning Quickly:
Indigenous Languages 10 1
Communication-Based Language Instruction
LEANNE HINTON
195
TERRY SUPAHAN AND SAR.AH E. SUPAHAN
Introduction to the Welsh Language 10 3
LEANNE HINTON
The Navajo Language: II 199
KEN HALE
10. Welsh: A European Case of Language
Maintenance 10 7
16. Tsehootsoofdi Olta' gi Dine Bizaad
GER.ALD MORGAN
Bihoo'aah: A Navajo Immersion Program at
Fort Defiance, Arizona 203
Introduction to the Maori Language 1 15
MARIE ARVISO AND WAYNE HOLM
KEN HALE
17. The Master-Apprentice Language
1 1. Te Kohanga Reo: Maori Language
Learning Program 2 17
Revitalization 119
LEANNE HINTON
JEANETTE KING
18 . Linguistic Aspects of Language Teaching
An Introduction to the Hawaiian Language
and Learning in Immersion Contexts 227
129
KEN HALE
LEANNE HINTON
12. The Movement to Revitalize Hawaiian
PART
Language and Culture 133
VI
SAM L. NO.EAU WARNER
LITE. RACY
13. "Mai Loko Mai 0 Ka 'J'ini: Proceeding
from a Dream": The 'Aha Punana Leo
19. New Writing Systems 239
Connection in Hawaiian Language
LEANNE HINTON
Revitalization 147
WILLIAM H. WILSON AND KAUANOE KAMANA
Contents ix
An Introduction to Paiute 251 The Mono Language 313
LEANNE HINTON AND KEN HALE KEN HALE
20. Language Revitalization in the San Juan 25. On Using Multimedia in Language
Paiute Community and the Role of a Paiute Renewal: Observations from Making the
Constitution 255 CD-ROM Taitaduhaan 31 7
PAMELA BUNTE AND ROBERT FRANKLIN PAUL V. KROSKRITY AND JENNIFER F. REYNOLDS
26. Can the Web Help Save My Language?
PART 331
VII
LAURA BUSZARD-WELCHER
MEDIA AND TECHNOLOGY
PART
21. Audio-Video Documentation 265 VIII
LEANNE HINTON
TRAINING
Australian Languages 273
27. Training People to Teach Their Language
KEN HALE
349
LEANNE HINTON
22. Strict Locality in Local Language Media:
An Australian Example 277
Jnuttut and lnnu-aimun 351
KEN HALE
KEN HALE
The Arapaho Language 283
28. The Role of the University in the Training
KEN HALE
of Native Language Teachers: Labrador 355
ALANA JOHNS AND IRENE MAZURKEWICH
23. Reflections on the Arapaho Language
Project, or When Bambi Spoke Arapaho and
Languages ofA rizona, Southern California,
Other Tales of Arapaho Language
and Oklahoma 367
Revitalization Efforts 287
LEANNE HINTON
STEPHEN GREYMORNING
29. Indigenous Educators as Change Agents:
Irish 299
Case Studies of Two Language Institutes 3 71
KEN HALE
TERESA L. MCCARTY. LUCILLE J. WATAHOMIGIE,
AKJRA Y. YAMAMOTO, AND OFELIA ZEPEDA
24. Continuity and Vitality: Expanding
Domains through Irish-Language Radio 301 The Navajo Language: Ill 385
COLLEEN COTTER KEN HALE