Tlingit Language Immersion Retreats: Creating New Language Habitat for the Twenty-First Century

• Autores: D. Roy Mitchell
• Localización: International journal of the sociology of language, ISSN 0165-2516, Nº. 172, 2005, págs. 187-195
• Idioma: inglés

• Es reseña de:

  • Nettle, Daniel & Suzanne Romaine (2000):" Vanishing voices: the extinction of the world’s languages". Oxford: Oxford University Press. 241 p.

    Xosé Luís Regueira Fernández

    Cadernos de lingua, ISSN 1130-5924, Nº. 23, 2001, págs. 133-141

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• Resumen

  • Sealaska Heritage Institute (SHI), an Alaska Native nonprofit corporation, operated three Tlingit language immersion retreats in 2002 and 2003, wherein we aimed to create a habitat for 100% Tlingit language use. I present an overview of how SHI organized and operated these retreats, along with discussion of challenges that occurred, especially: catering to learners of different levels of language ability, the pressures to use English, and addressing interpersonal conflicts when language abilities are limited.