Pub Date: 2002 ISBN: 9781890771423 Leanne Hinton, Matt Vera, Nany Steele
How to Keep Your Language Aliveby Leanne HintonA Commonsense Approach to One-on-One Language Learning
How to Keep Your Language Alive is a manual for students of all
languages, from Yurok to Yiddish, Washoe to Welsh, complete with
exercises that can--and should--be done in the most ordinary of
settings.
Awash in worldwide accounts of dying languages, author Leanne Hinton and a group of dedicated language activists are doing something about it: they have created a master-apprentice language program, a one-on-one approach that has been remarkably successful in ensuring that new speakers will take the place of those, often elderly, who are fluent in endangered languages. Written with great simplicity and directness by a member of the linguistics faculty at the University of California, Berkeley, it is both authoritative and accessible. |
