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| Title | Article: Workshop Aims to Boost Native Languages |
| Body | From http://www.juneauempire.com/stories/020509/loc_385027774.shtml Workshop aims to boost Native languages Education director says new process will provide framework for teachers By Eric Morrison FEbruary 5, 2009 Sealaska Heritage Institute is looking to reinvent the wheel of how the indigenous languages of Southeast Alaska are taught. New education director Jim MacDiarmid is hosting a two-day workshop Wednesday and today on a developmental language process he has created to help educators instill the Tlingit, Haida and Tsimshian languages into the long-term memories of their students. MacDiarmid, author of "Replacing Thing-a-ma-jig - the Developmental Language Process," said he has spent the last 35 years developing the process that is adaptable to kindergarten though 12th-grade classes of any language. He said the process encourages educators to teach students in kindergarten through third grades solely with basic listening and speaking exercises. Read the entire article at http://www.juneauempire.com/stories/020509/loc_385027774.shtml . |
| Source | Juneau Empire |
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