Linay'sdulkaas de': let's start sewing

• Main Authors: Shaginoff-Stuart, Sondra, Ts'akae, Kaggos
• Other Authors: Siekmann, Sabine, Peter, Hishinlai', Tuttle, Siri
• Format: Other/Unknown Material
• Language: English
• Published: 2016
• Subjects: Ahtena language; Study and teaching; Indian beadwork; Alaska; Copper River Valley; Fairbanks; Indian; ahtna
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/11122/7981

Master's Project (M.A.) University of Alaska Fairbanks, 2016 This paper proposes Task Based Language Teaching (TBLT) as a teaching method for Ahtna language learners. TBLT focuses on engaging learners in meaningful activities or tasks which they accomplish through using the target language, learning Ahtna in the process. TBLT incorporates deeper understandings and meaning by teaching students the language in a cultural context. For this paper, the focus activity will be making a beaded necklace. Beading has been an important activity for me, from the time of learning about my culture and people from my Aunt Katie Wade. The website accompanying the project and be found at: http://www.ourlanguagecameback.com/.