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1| @wieldorg #FragmentedLanguageWorkshop2020
Let's Come Back Together: Reversing Fragmentation, Reclaiming Space+Time for Our Languages
=observ'ns+quest'ns from 20+ years of collaborations in (under-resourced) lg reclamation
→all this, to start a conversation!
→so chat away!
Let's Come Back Together: Reversing Fragmentation, Reclaiming Space+Time for Our Languages
=observ'ns+quest'ns from 20+ years of collaborations in (under-resourced) lg reclamation
→all this, to start a conversation!
→so chat away!
2| Less SavingTheLanguage, more Rebuilding(Strengthening)TheCommunityOf Speakers:
→Whole approach based on _Relations_
=Radical focus on Access(ibility):
=SIMPLE activities to ReclaimSpace+Time for ppl to use lg Together, Daily
→esp. Outside classes =ReclaimHomesPublicSpaces
→Whole approach based on _Relations_
=Radical focus on Access(ibility):
=SIMPLE activities to ReclaimSpace+Time for ppl to use lg Together, Daily
→esp. Outside classes =ReclaimHomesPublicSpaces
3| Don'tNeedMuchToStart—just 3 simple key ConversationModels:
=for almost any comm'ty to start ReclaimingRelations to (+ Space+Time for) their lg:
→Let's EAT!=food, want, like, need
→Let's GO!=moving, location, putting/taking
→Let's TALK!=feel/think, say; know, remember
=for almost any comm'ty to start ReclaimingRelations to (+ Space+Time for) their lg:
→Let's EAT!=food, want, like, need
→Let's GO!=moving, location, putting/taking
→Let's TALK!=feel/think, say; know, remember
4| Relations to Each Other as spkrs:
Problem: anxiety/shame abt not being good enough
Solve: sharing our lg anxiety w/Group
→finding that YouAreNotAlone
→learners agree to _always_ have each other's backs
→You are enough, bc We are enough
→WeHelpEachOther
→now LET'S eat!
Problem: anxiety/shame abt not being good enough
Solve: sharing our lg anxiety w/Group
→finding that YouAreNotAlone
→learners agree to _always_ have each other's backs
→You are enough, bc We are enough
→WeHelpEachOther
→now LET'S eat!
5| TeachItForward:
=learn lg to _immediately_ TeachFwd to friends/family
→EveryLearnerIsNowATeacher
→less TeachersTimeBottleneck
→motiv'n to keep trying =help not just yourself, but also others
→most learning now Outside: in small everyday-life moments
→builds Resilience
=learn lg to _immediately_ TeachFwd to friends/family
→EveryLearnerIsNowATeacher
→less TeachersTimeBottleneck
→motiv'n to keep trying =help not just yourself, but also others
→most learning now Outside: in small everyday-life moments
→builds Resilience
6| Relations to Sounds/Signs:
→not as individ'l isolated pronunciation targets; instead
→as living Contrasts =S'nds/S'ns learned in Relation to each other
→as Combinations =transitions from one to next
→as a Dance, not letters on a page
(a flow: we can teach you the steps)
→not as individ'l isolated pronunciation targets; instead
→as living Contrasts =S'nds/S'ns learned in Relation to each other
→as Combinations =transitions from one to next
→as a Dance, not letters on a page
(a flow: we can teach you the steps)
7| Relations to Lg Patterns ("grammar"):
→focus on _Meaning_
→not Forms+Charts
→just Contrast/Relate 2 simple Meanings: You+Me:
DoYou? -IDo
DidYou? -IDid
YouGiveMeIt? -IGiveYouIt
IsThatTheOneThat{You/I}...?
=core/essential lg patterns...in just a few brief lessonlets!
→focus on _Meaning_
→not Forms+Charts
→just Contrast/Relate 2 simple Meanings: You+Me:
DoYou? -IDo
DidYou? -IDid
YouGiveMeIt? -IGiveYouIt
IsThatTheOneThat{You/I}...?
=core/essential lg patterns...in just a few brief lessonlets!
8| Relations to Vocab:
=Vocab AS a Relation
=learn vocab as PairedPhrases, not solo words:
BirdFly
EatRice
GreenGrass
WhiteSnow
→in a PairedPhrase, if you forget one Meaning, the other will remind you
→same for any "matching" Relation btw words: just learn the words Together
=Vocab AS a Relation
=learn vocab as PairedPhrases, not solo words:
BirdFly
EatRice
GreenGrass
WhiteSnow
→in a PairedPhrase, if you forget one Meaning, the other will remind you
→same for any "matching" Relation btw words: just learn the words Together
9| Relations to Usage:
Hard to build phrases ourselves from scratch: full of Englishness, etc.
One way: SayWhatTheySay
=ListenFirst
=first just UNDERSTAND—bit-by-bit—WhatSpeakersSay (or wrote)
=then just try to TalkLikeThem
=just use their exact phrasings—but can SwapInVocab
Hard to build phrases ourselves from scratch: full of Englishness, etc.
One way: SayWhatTheySay
=ListenFirst
=first just UNDERSTAND—bit-by-bit—WhatSpeakersSay (or wrote)
=then just try to TalkLikeThem
=just use their exact phrasings—but can SwapInVocab
10| Respect for real human Relations to lg means asking:
- Who's still left out?
- What tools/norms (writing, digi-tech) get centered w/o question, at what costs, to who?
- How to cultivate comm'ty-based lg research capacity?
- How to maintain humor+heart in this hard process?
- Who's still left out?
- What tools/norms (writing, digi-tech) get centered w/o question, at what costs, to who?
- How to cultivate comm'ty-based lg research capacity?
- How to maintain humor+heart in this hard process?
11| While we should never stop demanding
the full support the lgs deserve,
in the working meantime
a lot can be done with a little
mainly by bringing people Together
to see just how much we already can breathe back
into these ways of being Together
the full support the lgs deserve,
in the working meantime
a lot can be done with a little
mainly by bringing people Together
to see just how much we already can breathe back
into these ways of being Together
12| Let's weave up solidarity and mutual aid,
take every chance to work w/each other at every level,
to challenge scarcity/fragmentation Together:
because
in this work,
individuals are not alone
communities are not alone
→Language is, so fundamentally, about not being alone
take every chance to work w/each other at every level,
to challenge scarcity/fragmentation Together:
because
in this work,
individuals are not alone
communities are not alone
→Language is, so fundamentally, about not being alone
