LINGUIST List 18.1188

Thu Apr 19 2007

Calls: Applied Ling,Lang Documentation/USA

Editor for this issue: Ania Kubisz <anialinguistlist.org>

Directory         1.    Margaret Noori, 14th Annual Stabilizing Indigenous Languages Symposium
Message 1: 14th Annual Stabilizing Indigenous Languages Symposium
Date: 19-Apr-2007
From: Margaret Noori <mnooriumich.edu>
Subject: 14th Annual Stabilizing Indigenous Languages Symposium


Full Title: 14th Annual Stabilizing Indigenous Languages Symposium Short Title: SILS 14

Date: 01-Jun-2007 - 03-Jun-2007 Location: Mt. Pleasant, Michigan, USA Contact Person: Margaret Noori Meeting Email: mnooriumich.edu Web Site: http://linguistlist.org/sils/index.html

Linguistic Field(s): Applied Linguistics; Language Documentation

Call Deadline: 30-Apr-2007

Meeting Description: This year at the 14th annual SILS (Stabilizing Indigenous Languages Symposium) language instructors, technology experts and linguists will gather again to share the work, and the dreams, of language communities all over the world. The theme is 'Working Together We Can Bring Back the Language: How Technology Can Make it Happen.'

SILS 14 is hosted by the Saginaw Chippewa Tribal Nation, Eastern Michigan University, and the LINGUIST List at the Soaring Eagle Casino & Resort in Mt. Pleasant, Michigan.

Particularly invited are presentations describing projects related to using technology in language documentation and preservation, self-documentation of endangered languages, innovative educational ideas, and proficiency outcomes. Presentations can take the following formats: 20 minute papers (plus question period), 15 minute demonstrations of technologies used to preserve and stabilize languages, poster presentations summarizing projects, and 1 hour workshops on successful methods of language preservation that can be adapted by a wide number of language groups.

Selection notification: 7th May

Suggested topics for talks, demos, and workshops include: web-based methods of preservation, instruction, and collaboration, options for distance learning, linguistic and cultural preservation, methods of successful instruction, revising languages without speakers, repatriation of language texts and recordings, and multi-generational community-based language initiatives.

Further information is available at: http://linguistlist.org/sils/index.html Telephone: (734) 487-0144 Fax: (734) 482-0132