#The teaching style tends to be like 40 years behind how they teach German and Spanish and whatnot | Explore Tumblr posts and blogs

rotzaprachim · 22 days ago

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test in a severely endangered minority language later today and at this point I’m motivated mainly by spite to create better teaching materials because the ones we have right now are so insufficient. @ guy who decided to teach three tenses when the class only knows three verbs and include more dense examples of English linguistic terminology in a picture-less textbook with few opportunities for naturalistic sentence structure and immersion, I’m hunting you in your sleep

#My experience across three different severely endangered languages is that for various reasons #Many of which are the fault of the circumstances of their minoritization #The teaching style tends to be like 40 years behind how they teach German and Spanish and whatnot #Which sucks because endangered languages often need MORE instruction in everyday and casual language #Becwuse people are a) more likely to use them in casual situations in the home than in politics or economics etc (generally)#AND #less opportunists to immerse casually through hip hop and tv and whatnot

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