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Demmert, William – 1994
Reports from the Indian Nations At Risk Task Force and the White House Conference on Indian Education identify as a national priority the need to retain American Indian and Alaska Native languages both as central elements in Native cultures and as national resources. A personal narrative of an Alaska Native man who grew up in the 1930s shows the…
Descriptors: Alaska Natives, American Indian Culture, American Indian Education, American Indian Languages
Lewelling, Vickie W.; Peyton, Joy Kreeft – 1999
This digest focuses on teaching Spanish to native or Hispanic heritage language students in the United States. Heritage language students are students who speak another language (in this case Spanish) as their first language either because they were born in another country or because their families speak another language at home. The entrance of…
Descriptors: Educational Objectives, Heritage Education, Higher Education, Hispanic Americans
Nash, Andrea; And Others – 1992
This curriculum sourcebook is designed as a guide for educators of limited-English-speaking adults in literacy education programs. It consists of accounts of actual learning and teaching experiences using a participatory approach to instruction and curriculum development, written by teachers in community-based adult education. An introductory…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Adult Literacy, Autobiographies, Bilingualism