“I Really Want to Save Our Language”: Facing the Challenge of Revitalising and Maintaining Southern Sami Language through Schooling
This article is based on a study of Southern Sami language learning in Norway. There are around 600-1000 Southern Sami living widely dispersed over a large territorial area in Norway. As an indigenous people, they have a right to instruction in their own language. The Southern Sami language however...
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ftciteseerx:oai:CiteSeerX.psu:10.1.1.1028.6419 2023-05-15T18:10:11+02:00 “I Really Want to Save Our Language”: Facing the Challenge of Revitalising and Maintaining Southern Sami Language through Schooling Kitt Margaret Lyngsnes The Pennsylvania State University CiteSeerX Archives http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.1028.6419 http://www.ccsenet.org/journal/index.php/ies/article/download/25141/15651/ en eng http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.1028.6419 http://www.ccsenet.org/journal/index.php/ies/article/download/25141/15651/ Metadata may be used without restrictions as long as the oai identifier remains attached to it. http://www.ccsenet.org/journal/index.php/ies/article/download/25141/15651/ Sami Southern Sami language learning indigenous people text ftciteseerx 2016-10-30T00:06:48Z This article is based on a study of Southern Sami language learning in Norway. There are around 600-1000 Southern Sami living widely dispersed over a large territorial area in Norway. As an indigenous people, they have a right to instruction in their own language. The Southern Sami language however is in danger of extinction. The purpose of this article is to explore how Southern Sami language learning is organised and implemented in school and, whether this training contributes to revitalising and maintaining the language. Data is collected in the contexts of the main Southern Sami language learning schools through qualitative interviews with pupils, teachers, headmasters, and parents. A sociocultural theoretical framework is used to analyse the data. The findings show that Southern Sami language learning in school offers very limited access to a Southern Sami language community due to the small number of pupils and teachers, lack of learning materials and most importantly the overall lack of language arenas for Southern Sami language. Another finding was that enthusiasm and motivation for learning and saving the language was very extensive. Text sami Unknown Norway |
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This article is based on a study of Southern Sami language learning in Norway. There are around 600-1000 Southern Sami living widely dispersed over a large territorial area in Norway. As an indigenous people, they have a right to instruction in their own language. The Southern Sami language however is in danger of extinction. The purpose of this article is to explore how Southern Sami language learning is organised and implemented in school and, whether this training contributes to revitalising and maintaining the language. Data is collected in the contexts of the main Southern Sami language learning schools through qualitative interviews with pupils, teachers, headmasters, and parents. A sociocultural theoretical framework is used to analyse the data. The findings show that Southern Sami language learning in school offers very limited access to a Southern Sami language community due to the small number of pupils and teachers, lack of learning materials and most importantly the overall lack of language arenas for Southern Sami language. Another finding was that enthusiasm and motivation for learning and saving the language was very extensive. |
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