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Title Communities of practice : an Alaskan native model for language teaching and learning / edited by Patrick E. Marlow and Sabine Siekmann
Published Tucson : University of Arizona Press, [2013]
©2013

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Description 1 online resource (x, 179 pages) : illustrations, maps
Series UPCC book collections on Project MUSE
Contents Prologue : Community of Practice -- Introduction / Patrick E. Marlow, Marliee Coles-Ritchie, Sabine Siekmann, and Joan Parker Webster -- SLATE Context and History / Patrick E. Marlow and Sabine Siekmann -- Mentoring : Engaging Communities of Practice / Joan Parker Webster and Sabine Siekmann -- Reinventing Technology : Computers as Tools for Coconstructing the Local Voice in Materials Development / Sabine Siekmann and Hishinlai' "Kathy R. Sikorski" -- On Becoming a "Literate" Person : Meaning Making with Multiliteracies and Multimodal Tools / Joan Parker Webster and Theresa Arevgaq John -- Teachers Drawing on the Power of Place to Indigenize Assessment / Marilee Coles-Ritchie and Walkie Charles -- Ellangluni : Power, Awareness, and Agency in Language Planning / Patrick E. Marlow and April G. L. Counceller -- Conversations / Patrick E. Marlow, Marilee Coles-Ritchie, Sabine Siekmann, and Joan Parker Webster -- Epilogue
Summary This book describes an innovative project in Native-language instruction that has wide applicability in second-language classrooms. Although the project it describes was developed in Alaska, the program can serve as a model throughout the world
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 161-170) and index
Notes English
Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on July 24, 2023)
Subject Alaska Natives -- Languages -- Study and teaching
Alaska Natives -- Education
Indigenous peoples -- Study and teaching
Second language acquisition -- Study and teaching
Education, Bilingual -- Alaska
Bilingualism in children -- Alaska
EDUCATION -- Bilingual Education.
Second language acquisition -- Study and teaching
Indigenous peoples -- Study and teaching
Education, Bilingual
Bilingualism in children
Alaska
Form Electronic book
Author Marlow, Patrick E., 1966- editor.
Siekmann, Sabine, editor.
Alaska Native Language Center, contributor.
LC no. 2012036966
ISBN 9780816599868
0816599866