Local reactions to perceived language decline

Datos Bibliográficos

ID2995349
AutoresLucille J Watahomigie, Akira Y Yamamoto
Año1992
Volumen68
Número1
Páginas10-17
Fecha de publicación1992-03-01
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessSí
TipoARTICLE
RevistaLanguage (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 0097-8507 • E-ISSN: 1535-0665
EditorialProject MUSE (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.1353/lan.1992.0076
OpenAlexW1997350198
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas16

In schools, from kindergarten through high school, the language of instruction was English. When students who had been taught in English left school, they were speaking English. When they married, they spoke English to their children. ‘Indians’ no longer spoke their native languages as their primary means of communication. This was the perceived state of affairs in relation to the Hualapai language in the mid 1970s. Many members of the community thought that English was taking over their ancestral language and that their traditions were about to disappear. In response to this threat of rapid language decline, a long and tedious process of forming a community language team began, with the Hualapai Bilingual/Bicultural Program as its central force

Linguistics · Language Development and Disorders · Linguistic Education and Pedagogy · Linguistic Studies and Language Acquisition · Philosophy · Psychology