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Chew, Kari A. B.; Child, Sara; Dormer, Jackie; Little, Alexa; Sammons, Olivia; Souter, Heather – Canadian Modern Language Review, 2023
This article shares a participatory action research project about the use of technology, specifically online Indigenous language courses, to learn and teach Indigenous languages. The research collaborators are the NETOLNEW "one mind, one people" Partnership, 7000 Languages, and two Indigenous Partners who have created courses with 7000…
Descriptors: Participatory Research, Action Research, American Indian Languages, Language Maintenance
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Shulist, Sarah; Pedri-Spade, Celeste – Canadian Modern Language Review, 2022
This article examines the role that Indigenous language learning and use can play in the establishment of false or spurious claims to Indigeneity. These acts of "race shifting" are situated within the political discourse of "Truth and Reconciliation" and serve to enable settlers to situate themselves in positions where, both…
Descriptors: Language Maintenance, Land Settlement, Conflict Resolution, American Indian Languages
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Schwab-Cartas, Joshua – Canadian Modern Language Review, 2018
This article describes how cellphone technology, specifically cellphilms -- films of varying lengths made with cellphones by everyday people -- are being taken up in the community of Union Hidalgo as a platform to foster an intergenerational dialogue between youth and Elders, with the specific goal of preserving the Zapotec language and ancestral…
Descriptors: American Indian Languages, Telecommunications, Handheld Devices, American Indians
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Sarkar, Mela – Canadian Modern Language Review, 2017
Language revitalization work at one First Nation in eastern Canada has been ongoing for over two decades. Several approaches have been put in place: core teaching of Mi'gmaq as a primary school subject, language documentation and the creation of an online dictionary, and an Elders' focus group on language, as well other shorter-term projects. In…
Descriptors: Language Maintenance, American Indian Languages, Foreign Countries, Canada Natives
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Despagne, Colette – Canadian Modern Language Review, 2015
This critical ethnographic case study draws on Indigenous and minority students' process of learning English as a Foreign Language (EFL) in Mexico. The study specifically focuses on students who enrolled in a program called "A Wager with the Future." The aim of the study is to identify and understand contributing factors in these…
Descriptors: Learning Strategies, Mexicans, English (Second Language), Power Structure