Revitalisation of Mangarrayi: Supporting community use of archival audio exemplars for creation of language learning resources
| dc.contributor.author | Richards, Mark | |
| dc.contributor.author | Jones, Caroline | |
| dc.contributor.author | Merlan, Francesca | |
| dc.contributor.author | MacRitchie, Jennifer | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2019-05-23T21:18:05Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2019-05-23T21:18:05Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 2019-05 | |
| dc.description.abstract | Mangarrayi is a critically endangered language from the western Roper River re- gion in the Northern Territory of Australia. Today the greatest concentration of Mangarrayi people live at Jilkminggan, 135 kilometres south-east of Katherine. Although several older Mangarrayi speakers remain, the language is no longer used in day-to-day communication. However, there is a desire amongst a number of young adult community members to learn some of their heritage language. In this paper we discuss the process undertaken to support these aspirations, focus- ing on the use of exemplar Mangarrayi utterances sourced from archival docu- ments as a key to developing a basic level of communicative competence in con- texts identified as important to learners. This requires a clear understanding of how and when to use the utterances. We propose using a combination of language functions, topics, and sub-topics to clarify usage and support non-specialist com- munity members in using these for learning and teaching Mangarrayi. | |
| dc.description.sponsorship | National Foreign Language Resource Center | |
| dc.format.extent | 28 pages | |
| dc.identifier.citation | Richards, Mark, Caroline Jones, Francesca Merlan, & Jennifer MacRitchie. 2019. Revitalisation of Mangarrayi: Supporting community use of archival audio exemplars for creation of language learning resources. Language Documentation & Conservation 13: 253-280. | |
| dc.identifier.issn | 1934-5275 | |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/10125/24865 | |
| dc.language.iso | en-US | |
| dc.publisher | University of Hawaii Press | |
| dc.rights | Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International | |
| dc.rights | Attribution-NonCommercial 3.0 United States | |
| dc.rights.uri | http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/us/ | |
| dc.subject | Mangarayi language | |
| dc.subject | heritage language | |
| dc.subject | archival resources | |
| dc.subject | language learning | |
| dc.title | Revitalisation of Mangarrayi: Supporting community use of archival audio exemplars for creation of language learning resources | |
| dc.type | Article | |
| dc.type.dcmi | Text | |
| prism.endingpage | 280 | |
| prism.publicationname | Language Documentation & Conservation | |
| prism.startingpage | 253 | |
| prism.volume | 13 |