Training communities in documentation and technology: The Language Documentation Training Center model

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dc.creatorJennifer Sou
dc.creatorLeah Pappas
dc.creatorKhairunnisa
dc.creatorGary Holton
dc.date.accessioned2023-09-01T00:37:47Z
dc.date.available2023-09-01T00:37:47Z
dc.date.copyright2023
dc.date.issued2023-08
dc.description.abstractLanguage documentation is increasingly seen as a collaborative process, engaging community members as active participants. Collaborative research produces better documentation that is valuable for both the academic community and the speakers. However, in many communities, speakers and language advocates lack the skills necessary to fully engage in collaborative projects. One way to overcome this barrier is to provide language documentation training to community members. Such training should teach participants how to ethically and comprehensively complete every stage of the documentation process while offering opportunity for theoretical discussion and practical application. In this paper, we offer one possible model for community-based training in language documentation and conservation that focuses on bidirectional learning and capacity building. We describe a training workshop that was held in 2018 in Kupang, the capital of Indonesia’s Nusa Tenggara Timur (NTT) province. A collaboration between the University of Hawai‘i, Leiden University, and Artha Wacana Christian University, this workshop implemented a model based on the practices of the Language Documentation Training Center (LDTC), an organization devoted to training speakers to document their own languages. We detail the NTT workshop itself, summarize post-workshop feedback, and offer suggestions to others looking to provide similar training in speaker communities.
dc.description.sponsorshipNational Foreign Language Resource Center
dc.formatArticle
dc.format.extent24
dc.identifier.citationSou, Jennifer, Leah Pappas, Khairunnisa, Gary Holton. 2023. Training communities in documentation and technology: The Language Documentation Training Center model. Language Documentation & Conservation 17: 254-277.
dc.identifier.issn1934-5275
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10125/74737
dc.languageeng
dc.publisherUniversity of Hawaii Press
dc.titleTraining communities in documentation and technology: The Language Documentation Training Center model
dcterms.rightsCreative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International
dcterms.typeText
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prism.endingpage277
prism.publicationnameLanguage Documentation & Conservation
prism.startingpage254
prism.volume17

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