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language & place
She:kon/Greetings,
I love the theme of the conference. Place is crucial for language survival. From the community to the actual instructional setting, formal and informal.
The indigenous language plays a key role in issues such as environmental restoration and land claims.
If there are any words, even one word that is used to refer to any part of the land or environment in general, it proves indigenous people hold inherent and historical ties to that land.
The environment of language learning is also crucial. An immersion setting with a cultural based curriculum is the most conducive to language acquisition. Some schools still want to establish a "language program" as part of the mainstream school system but the dominant language will be english based and will hinder the language and cultural acquisition by students.