Native Language Instruction

Mother Tongue Literacy and Language Renewal: The Case of Navajo [Teresa McCarty, Galena Dick]

Year of publication: 
1996

“This paper discusses the contribution of school-based mother-tongue literacy to the maintenance and renewal of endangered languages, with Navajo as the case in point. Although Navajo claims the most speakers among U.S. indigenous languages, the absolute number and relative proportion of Navajo speakers have declined drastically in the last 30 years. Language usage varies across the Navajo Reservation, depending on individual community histories and contact with English. English dominates the print environment, although other forces reinforce the primacy of oral Navajo.

Aboriginal Language Maintenance, Development, and Enhancement [Barbara Burnaby]

Publisher: 
Northern Arizona University Press
Year of publication: 
1996

“This paper offers a general review of literature relating to the maintenance, development and enhancement of Aboriginal languages in North America, especially Canada.”

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