Language Maintenance in Labrador: Trying to hold the line
This is a work in progress on language maintenance amongst the Inuit of northern Labrador. It focuses on the bilingual development of young Inuit children who are being educated in a First Language Program; that is, they are taught in Inuttut from Kindergarten to Grade 2, at which time a switch to E...
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ftuninewbrunojs:oai:ojs.journals.lib.unb.ca:article/32329 2023-05-15T16:54:53+02:00 Language Maintenance in Labrador: Trying to hold the line Mazurkewich, Irene 1991-06-21 application/pdf https://journals.lib.unb.ca/index.php/la/article/view/32329 eng eng Atlantic Provinces Linguistic Association https://journals.lib.unb.ca/index.php/la/article/view/32329/1882527544 https://journals.lib.unb.ca/index.php/la/article/view/32329 Copyright (c) 2021 Irene Mazurkewich Linguistica Atlantica; Vol. 13 (1991); 57 - 69 info:eu-repo/semantics/article info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion 1991 ftuninewbrunojs 2022-07-11T11:56:38Z This is a work in progress on language maintenance amongst the Inuit of northern Labrador. It focuses on the bilingual development of young Inuit children who are being educated in a First Language Program; that is, they are taught in Inuttut from Kindergarten to Grade 2, at which time a switch to English as the primary language of education takes place. The preliminary results indicate that the chances of their ancestral language being maintained are in doubt. As well, there is a brief discussion of the historical decline of Inuttut from the time of contact with the first Europeans to the present. The paper outlines the complexity of the ethnic relations in this region that have evolved, and describes the growing influence of English in the native population. Article in Journal/Newspaper inuit Inuttut University of New Brunswick: Centre for Digital Scholarship Journals |
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This is a work in progress on language maintenance amongst the Inuit of northern Labrador. It focuses on the bilingual development of young Inuit children who are being educated in a First Language Program; that is, they are taught in Inuttut from Kindergarten to Grade 2, at which time a switch to English as the primary language of education takes place. The preliminary results indicate that the chances of their ancestral language being maintained are in doubt. As well, there is a brief discussion of the historical decline of Inuttut from the time of contact with the first Europeans to the present. The paper outlines the complexity of the ethnic relations in this region that have evolved, and describes the growing influence of English in the native population. |
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Language Maintenance in Labrador: Trying to hold the line |
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Language Maintenance in Labrador: Trying to hold the line |
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Language Maintenance in Labrador: Trying to hold the line |
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Language Maintenance in Labrador: Trying to hold the line |
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Language Maintenance in Labrador: Trying to hold the line |
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Atlantic Provinces Linguistic Association |
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Linguistica Atlantica; Vol. 13 (1991); 57 - 69 |
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