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ERIC Number: EJ561178
Record Type: CIJE
Publication Date: 1997
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ISSN: ISSN-0958-8221
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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