Sentences with phrase «indigenous language studies»

This cross curricula dimension will provide good contextual information about Indigenous Australia, though it is not indigenous language studies.

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Swahili is influenced by the confluence of what the late African studies professor Ali Mazrui called the «triple heritage,» namely the indigenous Bantu languages and identity, Islamic religion, and Western traditions.

This reduces indigenous literacy, forcing some non-Arab Muslims to study Arabic language and culture, and the rest to listen to the preaching and scriptural interpretation of an Arabic Imam.

Dong King - en, a Chinaman in picturesque, flowing native garb, urges the necessity of Christianity's making itself more indigenous to China by making its converts study their own language and literature.

While English is compulsory in secondary schools today, the indigenous languages are not even though a child must study one of these languages.

Local languages are disappearing, too: The report calls for redoubled efforts to document and study indigenous cultures now, as groups that have depended on the frozen Arctic from Alaska to Scandinavia are adapting to a warmer climate or leaving altogether.

The language lessons are part of the students» Indigenous studies and are embedded in the LOTE curriculum.

Currently, she is an Assistant Professor in Native American Studies at the University of New Mexico where she teaches courses related to Indigenous education, language loss and revitalization, and research issues in Native Studies.

He later served as an Outreach and Community Programs Coordinator, founded and taught the first Lakota language program in New Mexico, was the Director of Enrollment and Community Relations, and taught Indigenous Studies.

«Indigenous studies, languages, innovations and leadership are all strengths of the NACA community, and similarly CNM's vision for innovation and its core values of service and community will provide our students and families with unbound opportunities and serve as a national model for collaboration and success.»

Through an investigation of both informal and institutionally organized interactions, this study analyzes how participation in indigenous, national, and international literacy practices indexes different senses of cultural citizenship (Rosaldo 1997), which, in turn, inform Cham minority children's complex sense of belonging within, and their meaningful intergenerational engagement with, the language and culture of their parents amid Vietnam's post-socialist transformation.

Children in the study were learning up to six languages simultaneously, including English (both Standard Australian English and Aboriginal Australian English), Indigenous languages, creoles, foreign languages (other than English) and sign languages.

The current paper offers a unique insight by drawing upon a large - scale dataset, Footprints in Time: the Longitudinal Study of Indigenous Children (LSIC), to describe patterns of language use and maintenance among young Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander children.

In a study of defendants before the Magistrates Court in NSW Indigenous defendants made up 21.9 % of public order offences (for instance offensive conduct, offensive language, assault police and resist arrest).