An assessment of linguistic development in a Kaqchikel immersion school
An assessment of linguistic development in a Kaqchikel immersion school
dc.contributor.author | Heaton, Raina | |
dc.contributor.author | Xoyón, Igor | |
dc.date.accessioned | 2016-12-08T20:51:53Z | |
dc.date.available | 2016-12-08T20:51:53Z | |
dc.date.issued | 2016-12 | |
dc.description.abstract | This paper discusses two assessments designed to evaluate the progress of students in the Kaqchikel immersion program at Nimaläj Kaqchikel Amaq’. Picture-naming production and comprehension tasks were used to test for proficiency in phonology and morphology as well as lexical acquisition. The tests targeted basic contrasts which are important to Kaqchikel grammatical structure. While students are still struggling with many aspects of the language such as the phonology and positional verbs, many are able to understand and use singular vs. plural intransitive verb morphology. Results are being used to improve the program and inform future methodological and curricular decisions. | |
dc.description.sponsorship | National Foreign Language Resource Center | |
dc.format.extent | 25 pages | |
dc.identifier.citation | Heaton, Raina & Igor Xoyón. 2016. An assessment of linguistic development in a Kaqchikel immersion school. Language Documentation & Conservation 10. 497-521. | |
dc.identifier.issn | 1934-5275 | |
dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/10125/24716 | |
dc.language.iso | en-US | |
dc.publisher | University of Hawaii Press | |
dc.rights | Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International | |
dc.subject | Kaqchikel language | |
dc.subject | immersion school | |
dc.subject | Mayan languages | |
dc.subject | language education | |
dc.subject | language revitalization | |
dc.title | An assessment of linguistic development in a Kaqchikel immersion school | |
dc.type | Article | |
dc.type.dcmi | Text | |
prism.endingpage | 521 | |
prism.startingpage | 497 |
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