ABSTRACT

This article promotes a grounded approach to Indigenous language revitalization that honours Indigenous peoples’ desire to restore Indigenous language use in their daily lives. The approach offers a way of revitalizing Indigenous languages by reintegrating them into Indigenous social life and an Indigenous way of learning, thus also sustaining and revitalizing Indigenous cultures. Drawing upon studies of informal learning in Indigenous-heritage communities in the Americas, as well as studies of family and community language revitalization programmes, the approach promotes Indigenous language communicative competence through participation in everyday-life activities. It capitalizes on the prevalent practice in Indigenous communities of Learning by Observing and Pitching In to family and community endeavours (LOPI), which serves as social and cultural scaffolding onto which communication in Indigenous languages can be intentionally reattached. In this way, the family- and community-centred approach that is promoted complements daycare- and school-based Indigenous language revitalization initiatives.

摘要

这篇文章提倡一种接地的方法来振兴土著语言，以尊重土著人民在日常生活中恢复土著语言使用的愿望。该方法提供了一种通过将土著语言重新融入土著社会生活和土著学习方式来振兴土著语言的方法，从而维持和振兴土著文化。借鉴美洲土著遗产社区的非正式学习研究，以及对家庭和社区语言振兴计划的研究，该方法通过参与日常生活活动来提高土著语言的交际能力。它通过观察和参与家庭和社区活动 (LOPI)，利用土著学习社区的普遍做法，它作为社会和文化的脚手架，可以有意地重新连接土著语言的交流。通过这种方式，所提倡的以家庭和社区为中心的方法补充了以日托和学校为基础的土著语言振兴计划。