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| Title | Article: Lakota LLEAPs to the Leading Edge of Second-Language Education |
| Body | From http://newswire.ascribe.org/cgi-bin/behold.pl?ascribeid=20101116.043816&time=07%2007%20PST&year=2010&public=0 The revival of the Lakota language opens a new chapter in 2011, as two institutions of higher learning in the Great Plains initiate undergraduate degree majors for teachers of Lakota as a second language-making Lakota the first Native American language to achieve this kind of professional recognition. Beginning in January 2011, the University of South Dakota (USD) School of Education (Vermillion, SD) and the Sitting Bull College (SBC) Education Department (Standing Rock Sioux Tribe, Fort Yates, ND) will each offer a two-year Lakota Language Teaching and Learning curriculum, as a degree major for a Bachelor of Arts in Education at USD or Bachelor of Science in Education at SBC. This two-year curriculum will be taught, administered, and evaluated over the four-year grant period by LLEAP, the Lakota Language Education Action Program. The program was conceived by the Lakota Language Consortium in partnership with USD and SBC. This coordinated program systematically addresses the problem of how to generate high-quality teachers of an important Native American language - teachers who have deepened their own fluency in the language through college-level study, and who understand how a second language is taught and learned. Read the full article at http://newswire.ascribe.org/cgi-bin/behold.pl?ascribeid=20101116.043816&time=07%2007%20PST&year=2010&public=0 Read a related article at http://www.argusleader.com/article/20101129/VOICES01/11290308/1052/OPINION01 |
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| Inputdate | 2010-12-02 07:00:46 |
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| Publishdate | 2010-12-06 00:00:00 |
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