Hello -- attached is an updated flyer on two innovative Summer Institutes in Language Revitalization that are offered jointly by the En'owkin Centre (Penticton, BC) in July and the University of Victoria (Victoria BC) in August. These Institutes enable people with a commitment to language revitalization from all parts of Canada and beyond to come together in a intensive and supportive learning environment to complete core requirements in our Certificate in Aboriginal Language Revitalization. The Summer Institutes include:
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July Summer Institute, Penticton BC, July 4 - 28, 2006 Language Revitalization Principles and Practices, Instructor: Bonnie Jane Maracle Introductory Linguistics for Language Revitalization, Instructor: Maxine Baptiste
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August Summer Institute, University of Victoria, Aug 2 - 28, 2006 Language Learning and Teaching in Situations of Language Loss, Instructor: Aliki Marinakis Field Methods for Language Preservation and Revitalization, Instructor: Strang Burton Note: We are pleased to announce that Dr. Leanne Hinton will join in as a resource person for several days in the August Summer Institute
If you or your colleagues and community members are interesting in strengthening your ability to support the preservation and revitalization of endangered languages, please consider this program and register as soon as possible for Summer Institutes -- and thanks for forwarding this flyer to others who might be interested in participating in the program...
Best wishes, Joy Davis
Joy Davis, Program Director Cultural Management Programs Division of Continuing Studies University of Victoria PO Box 3030 STN CSC Victoria, BC V8W 3N6 250 721 8462 For information on the Cultural Resource Management Program, please visit http://www.uvcs.uvic.ca/crmp For information on the Intercultural Education and Training Program, please visit http://www.uvcs.uvic.ca/iet For information on our new Certificate in Aboriginal Language Revitalization, please visit http://www.uvcs.uvic.ca/calr
AILA Research Network on Language Policy – Next steps
The Network was approved by the AILA Research Networks committee on May 2 2006.
A mailing list (with 192 members so far) is now working through Google Groups. The home page of the group is http://groups.google.com/group/LPREN. There are instructions there how to join. Anyone can read earlier messages there, but to receive mail and to post, you need to be a member (but you don't need to have gmail to be a member). Once you are a member, you can post to the list by sending a message to LPREN@googlegroups.com <mailto:LPREN@googlegroups.com> . Because the list is moderated, an owner will check the posting before it is distributed. Please do not send attachments. Check any URLs before you send them.
The interim committee of the Network is Gabrielle Hogan-Brun, University of Bristol; Elana Shohamy, Tel Aviv University; Jasone Cenoz, University of the Basque Country; Richard Baldauf, University of Queensland; and Bernard Spolsky is Interim Organizer.
A new committee, to serve until the 2008 AILA Congress, will be selected at the meetings at Limerick and Brisbane in a month from now. Ideally, the committee should provide world coverage: perhaps the Limerick meeting should select members from Europe, Africa and North and South America, and Brisbane meeting members from Asia and the Pacific. Suggestions and offers to serve are welcome.
We hope soon to have a web-site, to be set up by Wayne Wright at the University of Texas San Antonio. We can have our own address but www.language-policy.org <http://www.language-policy.org/> is already taken. Please make suggestions for names and content. Would somebody be willing to put together some links for the site (such as a list of lists which circulate news about language policy, or a list of language policy centers, or a list of language policy journals, or a list of bibliographical sources)?
Limerick and Brisbane will be a chance to discuss the future of the Network, but if you can't be at either, or if you have ideas that we should think about beforehand, you can post to the group.