Contents: What is this CD rom for? Why learn an Aboriginal language? : benefits of learning a language; specific benefits for Aboriginal students; why offer an Aboriginal language in NSW schools?; First steps to start a school-based Aboriginal language program Information about NSW Aboriginal languages: Aboriginal language revival in NSW : the same but different; sounds and writing system; some grammatical features; Map of Aboriginal languages of NSW; List of languages on this CD.CD-ROMlanguage maintenance, language and education

These easy to use activities assist learning, skill development and cultural awareness, enabling viewers to gain an insight into Aboriginal language and culture.CD-ROMyolgnu matha, north east arnhem land, linguistics, storytelling

Songs: nakan ni; baba mia; kookaburra sits in the old gum tree; heads shoulders knees; we are Taungurung.taungurung

Series of papers indicating some of the new directions that Indigenous education is taking at the beginning of the twenty-first century. The focus is on education for Native Americans.b&w illustrations, graphs, tablesbilingual education, indigenous language teaching, american indian education, navajo immersion project

Section I: Language and Culture Immersion 1. Native Language Immersion /? Jon Reyhner 2. Assessing the Impact of Total Immersion on Cherokee Language Revitalization: A Culturally Responsive, Participatory Approach /? Lizette Peter with Ella Christie, Marilyn Cochran, Dora Dunn, Lula Elk, Ed Fields, JoAnn Fields, Tracy Hirata-Edds, Anna Huckaby, Margaret Raymond, Deputy Chief Hastings Shade, Gloria Sly, George Wickliffe, Akira Yamamoto 3. Situational Navajo: A School-Based, Verb-Centered Way of Teaching Navajo /? Wayne Holm, Irene Silentman, Laura Wallace Section II: Technology Sustaining Indigenous Languages in Cyberspace /? Courtney B. Cazden 5. Saving a Language with Computers, Tape Recorders, and Radio /? Ruth Bennett Section III: Other Issues 6. How To Teach When the Teacher Isn't Fluent /? Leanne Hinton 7. Preparing Indigenous Language Advocates, Teachers, and Researchers in Western Canada /? Heather A. Blair, Donna Paskemin, Barbara Laderoute 8. Whaia Te Reo: Pursuing the Language': How Metaphors Describe - Our Relationships with Indigenous Languages /? Jeanette King 9. Honoring the Elders /? Evangeline Parsons-Yazzie, Robert N. St. Clair 10.Spanish: A Language of Indigenous Peoples of the Americas /? Florencia Riegelhaupt, Roberto Carrasco, Elizabeth Brandt 11. Keresan Pueblo Indian Sign Language /? Walter P. Kelley, Tony L. McGregor 12. Oral History Shares the Wealth of a Navajo Community /? Sara L. Begay, Mary Jimmie, Louise Lockard 13. Mothertongue: Incorporating Theatre of the Oppressed into Language Restoration Movements /? Qwo-Li Driskill 14. Missionaries and American Indian Languages /? Evangeline Parsons Yazzie Biographical Information on the Authors.tables, b&w illustrationsnavajo, cherokee, indian sign language, bilingual education, indigenous language teaching, native language immersion, language and technology

Teaching Indigenous Languages is a compilation of papers presented at the Fourth Annual Stabilizing Indigenous Languages Symposium sponsored by Northern Arizona University's Center for Excellence in Education and Dept. of Modern Languages on May 1-3, 1997 at the University's du Bois Conference Center in Flagstaff, Arizonamaps, b&w illustrations, b&w photographs, gamesmaori, apache, arapaho, navajo, cherokee, language and literacy development, bilingual education, indigenous language teaching, language education and technology, language renewal

Major headings: Languages & Land claims; Toponymy & Topography; Planning for the future; Language, identity & the environment; Language & Identity: Home & Away; Language revitalisation: Maintenance; Documenting ENdangered LanguagesMaps, graphs, word listsland claims, east kimberley, ecotourism, nsw, borroloola, gurr-goni, maningrida

Maps, tables, word listsextreme endangerment, religion and language, literacy and revitalisation, language ecology, language and globalisation, colonisation

Setting the Scene; Finding a Policy; Looking at the Learners; Working with Non-Written Languages; Ways and Means; Role of Standard Dialects; Impacts & Future ProspectsTableslanguage endangerment, education, literacy, libraries

Outward Migration & Endangered Languages; Inward Migration & Endangered Languages; First Peoples; Policy, Power & Endangered Languages; States & Minorities; Migrations in History & Prehistorymaps, b&w photographs, tablesendangered languages, language revival, migration, linguistic diversity

Section 1: Grass-roots Efforts and Top-down Institutions Keynote Address: Leanne Hinton The Death and Rebirth of Native American Languages Patrick Marlow Bilingual Education, Legislative Intent, and Language Maintenance in Alaska Galina Dyrkheeva New Language Policy and Small Languages in Russia: the Buryat Example Zelealem Leyew The Fate of Endangered Languages in Ethiopia Gregory Hankoni Kamwendo Language Planning from Below: Chitumbuka as a Marginalised Language in Malawi John Hobson Learning to Speak Again: Towards the Provision of Appropriate Training for the Revitalization of Australian Languages in New South Wales Shelley Tulloch Grassroots Desires for Language Planning in Nunavut Amandina C�rdenas Demay Hacia la definici�n de una pol�tica del lenguaje & Alejandra Arellano Mart�nez expl�cita en M�xico Elena Benedicto, G. McLean, Linguistic Rights in the Nicaraguan Atlantic Coast: Grupo de Ling�istas Ind�genas Mayangna Actions on the Ground within the Legislative Framework of the Estatuto de Autonom�a Bartomeu Meli� Las lenguas ind�genas en el Paraguay. Una visi�n desde el Censo 2002 Monica Ward Building from the Bottom-up: Linguistic Rights for Extremely Endangered Languages Marta Moskal Language Policy and Protection of Endangered Languages in Poland Sue Wright What is a language? Some difficulties inherent in language rights Joan Ramon Sol� Obstacles in the Way of the Recovery of Catalan Section 2: The Global vs. the Local in Linguistic Rights Keynote Address: Patxi Goenaga Fronteras que dividen y fronteras que separan. Una mirada a Europa desde el Euskara Yun-Hsuan Kuo Languages, Identity, and Linguistic Rights in Taiwan Estibaliz Amorrortu, Andoni Barre�a, What Do Linguistic Communities Think about the Esti Izagirre, Itziar Idiazabal, Bel�n Uranga Official Recognition of their Languages? Alok Kumar Das Linguistic Practices and Not Just Linguistic Rights: Endangered Languages in New Europe Section 3: Languages crossing the Borders Keynote Address: Tjeerd de Graaf The Status of Endangered Languages in the Border Areas of Japan and Russia Mariana Bara Arm�n endangered language Ver�nica Grondona Language Policy, Linguistic Rights and Language Maintenance in Argentina Grup d?Estudi de Lleng�es Amena�ades Linguistic diversity in Catalonia: towards a model of linguistic revitalization Nataliya Belitser Endangered Languages in Crimea/Ukraine: The Cases of Crimean Tatar, Karait, and Krymchak Ivelina Kazakova & Maria Miteva The Future of Bulgarian: The Road to Extinction or Paradise Regained Luke O?Callaghan War of Words: Language Policy in Post Independence Kazakhstan Eden Naby From Lingua Franca to Endangered Language: The Legal Aspects of the Preservation of Aramaic in Iraq Poster presentations Akim Elnazarov Endangered languages and Education. A Case of Badakhshan Province of Tajikistan Arnfinn Muruvik Vonen & Oddvar Hjulstad Linguistic Rights Paving the Way Towards Language Endangerment? The Case of Norwegian Sign Language Eva Savelsberg Kurdish (Kurmanc�) as Minority Language in the Federal Republic of Germany Jos� Antonio Flores Farf�n Cultural and Linguistic Revitalization, Maintenance and Development in Mexico Mary Jane Norris Assessing the Status, Use and Accessibility of Canada?s Aboriginal Languages within Communities and Cities: Some Proposed Indicators Michael Prosser van der Riet Promotion of Minority Language Scripts in Southwest China. A Relative Success or Complete Failure? Mikael Grut The Endangered Celtic Languages: A Wake-up Call Nariyo Kono Developing Partnerships Between Universities and Language Communities: Top-down and Bottom-up Integration Richard J. Hawkins Probit Modeling Language Attrition Rudy Osiel Camposeco El idioma maya Popti? y la Declaraci�n Universal de los Derechos Ling��sticos Victorio N. Sugbo The literary Response: Claiming Rights in Three Philippin Languages Ya-ling Chang Language Policies in an Aboriginal Primary School in Taiwanmaps, tables, graphsnsw, endangered languages, linguistic rights

Main headings: Opening the book; Literacy from within; Choosing an orthography; Literacy & Dialect diversity; Promoting literacy; Cautionary notesmaps, b&w photographs, b&w illustrations, tablesendangered languages, language revival, orthography, literacy

Main headings: Strategies and resources; Orthographies; Proverbs, metaphor and poetics; Literatures and education; Case studies; Oral literatures: Collection and Diffusion; Mayan literatureMaps, tables, word listsendangered languages, language revival, kimberly, education

Learning the details, Different approaches in the classroom, School contexts, Innovative methods, Multilingualism and diaspora, Policy overviewmaps, b&w photographs, colour photographs, tables, graphsmultilingualism, education, bilingualism, language endangerment, language transmission

Keynotes, Attitudinal issues, Govenrment-supportedstrategies and community initiated projects, Teaching-resource creation for language revitalization, Language use and standards, The role of the education system in language shift and its reversal, Langauge standardisation, Intergenerational transmissionTablesendangered languages, language revival, language policy

Linguistic and Sociolinguistic properties; sociolinguistics and endangered languages; Rights, identities and new technologies; New media cultures and endangered languages; Rebuilding peoples in Ecuador and revitalizing their languages Documentation - successful experience; Language rights of endangered languagesMaps, graphslanguage endangerment, worrorra, language technologies, documentation