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Title:Participatory Methods for Language Documentation and Conservation: Building Community Awareness and Engagement
Bibliographic Citation:Truong, Christina Lai, Garcez, Lilian; 2012-02; Kaipuleohone University of Hawai'i Digital Language Archive;http://hdl.handle.net/10125/4505.
Creator:Truong, Christina Lai
Garcez, Lilian
Date (W3CDTF):2012-02
Description:This paper describes three participatory methods to engage communities in research, planning, implementation, and evaluation of language programs for their own benefit. These methods facilitate investigation of sociolinguistic phenomena to inform and spur planning for effective language initiatives. In guided discussion sessions, community members build visual representations of collective knowledge about their language and language practices using text, symbols, and pictures. They are then invited to react to the results and discuss changes they would like to see in their situation. In the first activity, participants build a map of language variation, intelligibility, and language attitudes in their community. In the second activity, patterns of bilingualism among demographic subgroups are diagrammed and analyzed by the community. In the third activity, the community creates a diagram of their language use in various domains. Several pilot tests of the methods were conducted with minority language speakers in Malaysia and Indonesia. Using participatory methods is a valuable process that builds community awareness and engagement with language conservation issues. The process of thinking critically about their own language situation is a step from passivity towards engagement that creates an opportunity for the community to participate in, shape, and own collaborative initiatives for their language
National Foreign Language Resource Center
Format:16 pages
Identifier:Truong, Christina Lai and Lilian Garcez. 2012. "Participatory Methods for Language Documentation and Conservation: Building Community Awareness and Engagement." Language Documentation & Conservation. 6:22-37.
1934-5275
Identifier (URI):http://hdl.handle.net/10125/4505
Language:English
Language (ISO639):eng
Publisher:University of Hawai'i Press
Rights:Creative Commons Non-Commercial No Derivatives
Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 United States
http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/us/
Subject:language documentation
community collaboration
community research
Indonesia
Table Of Contents:truong_garcez.pdf
Type:Article
Type (DCMI):Text

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