Sentences with phrase «own indigenous language»

Métis author Chelsea Vowel argues for the official protection of Canada's Indigenous languages, which are currently on the brink of extinction

Rather than celebrate an historic investment in preserving and revitalizing Indigenous languages, MLA Mike Morris stated that more money should be put into policing their communities instead.

Secondly, Townsend discovered that unwritten indigenous languages were not simple or primitive but rather extremely complex and capable of expressing the full range of human thought and emotion.

Mexico sorely needed linguistic research to develop the country's many unwritten indigenous languages before real educational gains could be made.

By the early 1980s, the organization's translator - linguists were laboring in 761 indigenous language projects and SIL members had published over 9,000 articles and books.

She came dressed in the garments of the indigenous peoples and she spoke to Juan Diego in his own indigenous language.

* Perhaps not as relevant to the UK, but even there, there are strong indigenous language efforts in Scottish Gaelic, Welsh and Cornish

This should go beyond sending messages from Bogotá, and should include the different indigenous languages spoken in Colombia, to show a real commitment to those people.

And if Schlossberg wanted to speak the city's indigenous language, Perlin said, it wouldn't be English.

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

A research that is cited by those concerned to lend credence to the import of indigenous languages is that of former Minister of education, Prof. Babs Fafunwa.

This is a challenge to Nigerian developers to design tech gadgets in the indigenous languages.

In the past children spoke Nigeria's indigenous languages namely Yoruba, Igbo, and Hausa fluently and unashamedly.

General News of Sunday, 13 May 2018 Source: Enock Akonnor Teachers are being encouraged to use indigenous languages to help students Chief for Atwima Kwanwoma Nana Amponsa - Kwaa IV has appealed to the government through the Ministry of Education to consider setting in motion policies that will ensure that Akan language (Twi) is strictly used by teachers as the communication channel in the teaching of students in the country.

Onu said various countries like India, China adopted a related strategy by teaching Mathematics and the Science subjects in their indigenous languages at the primary school level.

«This is a heterogeneous society, where we have over 200 indigenous languages.

«This paper makes the case that endangered Indigenous languages can be repositories for factual knowledge across time depths far greater than previously imagined,» the researchers wrote in their paper, «forcing a rethink of the ways in which such traditions have been dismissed.»

The highlights of the results of the trio's preliminary analysis of six of the ancient Australian tales was presented during an indigenous language conference in Japan.

That's one reason his commission has urged measures ranging from preserving indigenous languages of the Arctic to encouraging scientists and native peoples to collaborate on scientific research.

According to the Linguistic Society of America, of the 165 indigenous languages still spoken in North America, only 33 are regularly spoken by children.

Yet without intervention, half of the world's indigenous languages are expected to vanish in the next 100 years.

Her advice: For students interested in indigenous languages, opportunities and funding abound.

The data comparing dozens of indigenous languages support phases of migration for the Dene languages and multilingual language contact systems along the Alaska coast, which potentially involved languages related to current linguistic isolates.

The aliens, we learn, can understand English, but speak in their own indigenous language of guttural grunts and clicks (making this one of two major releases this month, along with Quentin Tarantino's Inglourious Basterds, to predominantly feature subtitled dialogue).

Portuguese, Tetun, and the other 15 indigenous languages were banned during the Indonesian occupation.

This means that some children will start school learning in their indigenous languages.

Not all Indigenous students will be able to speak an Indigenous language or be the holders of cultural knowledge given the impact of colonisation.

The video would often blink in and out, and there were occasional language barriers — students in the most remote areas of the state can be more fluent in an indigenous language than they are in Portuguese.

Of the 175 estimated indigenous languages that are still spoken in the United States, about 155 of them, or 89 percent, are near extinction, estimates James Crawford, author of Bilingual Education: History, Politics, Theory, and Practice (Bilingual Educational Services, 1999).

His family spoke Marma, one of eight different indigenous languages used by Hill Tract tribes.

Australia is home to hundreds of Indigenous languages.

At a rapid rate, indigenous languages around the world are becoming endangered.

The animated nature of the series allows for re-voicing in Indigenous languages.

Secondly, the online publication of these materials makes them accessible to a wide audience, including the communities of origin, educators and researchers, as well as the general public, who may not have been aware of the existence of such a vast range of written materials in Australian Indigenous languages.

Many of the resources were produced during the era of bilingual education in the Northern Territory, beginning in the 1970s, and were mostly created by Indigenous people for Indigenous children who spoke an Indigenous language at home, and were learning to read and write in their own language before transitioning to English literacy.

Gaps in Australia's Indigenous language policy: Dismantling bilingual education in the Northern Territory.

Many of these young people come with low levels of Spanish and some speak indigenous languages, where Spanish is their second language.

The open access archive contains thousands of authentic texts in Indigenous languages of the Northern Territory, many with English translations and rich illustrations.

Last fall, our regional educational laboratory, REL Northwest, joined with REL Central and REL Pacific to organize a convening of tribal representatives from across the country to examine how our education system can incorporate indigenous language and culture and what research can increase and improve those efforts.

The NWCC recently convened state Indian education coordinators to share information and lessons learned, particularly on how indigenous language and culture can be incorporated into the education system.

Theodore Fontaine recalls being punished as a student at Fort Alexander Residential School for speaking the indigenous language Ojibway.

The District has been a leader in the preservation of the indigenous language through language immersion classes and the creation of digital, interactive Cup» ik language books.

More than 90 % of Australia's Indigenous languages are critically endangered and two - thirds of those languages spoken a hundred years ago are now dormant.

However, more information is needed about how federal policies support indigenous language and culture in education, what CBE programs are currently in use, and how to evaluate and scale up the most effective strategies.

Detective Inspector Darko Dawson, fluent in Ketanu's indigenous language, is the right man for the job, but he hates the idea of leaving his loving wife and young son, a plucky kid with a defective heart.

The Mexico Kindle Store also includes titles with Nahuatl and other Mexican indigenous languages from the Instituto Nacional de Lenguas Indígenas, preserving an important part of Mexican heritage.

Many other languages are spoken, and East Malaysia features several other indigenous languages.

For example, due to the variety of indigenous languages in India, the public sector comes up with a project called Aakash to provide up to 220 million tablets to students.

We have a small list going, and I happen to be a big language / culture nerd, so I wanted to include cultural snapshots of Spanish - speaking countries with their indigenous languages, culture, and geographical / political information (I promise you, they're not all the same).

Indigenous languages are of the company's challenges.