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Originally Posted by icecube
Probably the biggest hurdle in language revitalization is the loss of language due to residential school experiences over the generations. It's extremely difficult to support students who are in language classes or immersion programs if nobody in the home is able to speak the language anymore.
I've already spoken to the lower level of funding reserve schools receive. Language programs that aren't French immersion don't receive a ton of funding so they tend to operate on a thin budget.
There are programs at the grassroots level but the funding and capacity isn't there to do things that are going to have a large impact. It's a more daunting task than it sounds. From what I have been told, Elders, certified language teachers, methodologists, and linguistic specialists are working together to develop curriculum materials and effective teaching methods and doing it on their own time when the funding isn't available.
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I have a fair idea what it entails from my own experience of another language that was suppressed by the British but to say that the funding and capacity isn't there to do things that are going to have a large impact is, imo, defeatist and just shunning responsibility. You got to start somewhere
There is no immediate need for certified language teachers. Anyone that can speak the language can pass it on through weekly workshops etc.
What I'm enquiring about is just how much language is being taught on he reserves from self initiated programs.
Funding here to set up your own group.
https://www.canada.ca/en/canadian-he...languages.html