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Dakota Language Revitalization

Sherry Johnson & Nadine Eastman
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Learn ABOUT
(deep listening, information)

  1. What is causing the loss of the Dakota language?
  2. What does it mean to be a second language learner?
  3. What does it mean to have language be a part of my being?
  4. How might cards, games and signs help to preserve language?
  5. How might immersion programs at the preschool level encourage language use in families?
  6. What is the Dakota Language Institute?
  7. What is a Language Nest?

Learn FROM
(deep listening, information)

  1. Are there languages other than English that members of my family speak or have spoken in the past? Are they sill spoken? Why or why not?
  2. Have I ever attempted to learn another language? What was it like? What would it take to be fluent?
  3. Have I ever been in a place where the primary language spoken was not my own? How did I cope and understand?
  4. Have I known a fluent speaker of another language in my family that has died? Did the language die with him or her? What was the experience liek?