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Gain theoretical knowledge and practical skills to develop and implement a language plan. Explore how to approach learning, teaching and transmitting Indigenous languages to present and future generations, in a variety of forms and channels.
Learners will explore how to develop and implement a language plan that will support individual and community-centered goals for reclamation, revitalization, resurgence, education and/or maintenance based on available resources (e.g., human, financial, linguistic, technology), or resources they need to seek.
Learners will have access to IDIL resources and events through UNESCO’s International Decade of Indigenous Languages (IDIL) Global Community. Learners are also encouraged to build and participate in a global community by sharing open access resources with their community members and engaging in global dialogue surrounding language policy, planning, implementation and assessment.
This course offers free or low-cost digital learning that does not rely on high-bandwidth or infrastructure to access resources.
This course is for:
Module 1: What is Language Policy?
Week 1: Key Concepts and Ideas
Local policies & frameworks
National policies & frameworks
Global policies & frameworks
Human, language, & linguistic rights
Intellectual property & copyright
Guiding principles regarding Indigenous knowledges
Week 2: Case Studies and Practice
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Module 2: What is Language Planning?
Week 3: Key Concepts and Ideas
Language vitality & language use
Overall goals for the community and language
Environmental scan: Assessment of resources (financial, physical, human)
Community-centered, -driven and -led language plans
Vision
Goals
Language activities
Language policies (to facilitate language use)
Project action plan
Funding
Week 4: Case Studies and Practice
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Module 3: What is Implementation?
Week 5: Key Concepts and Ideas
Building a team that is Indigenous-led
Roles & responsibility
Accountability
Bench marks
Outcome driven results
Flexibility
Working through challenges
Week 6: Case Studies and Practice
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Module 4: What is Assessment?
Week 7: Key Concepts and Ideas
Ensuring outcomes driven
Summative vs formative assessment
Performative assessment
Community ownership of assessment
Week 8: Case Studies and Practice
Associate Professor of Language and Literacy Education and the Institute for Critical Indigenous Studies • University of British Columbia
Director of the Three Rivers Language Center and Professor of Linguistics and Anthropology • Purdue University Fort Wayne