Integrating collaboration into the classroom: Connecting community service learning to language documentation training

dc.contributor.authorCarreau, Kathryn
dc.contributor.authorDane, Melissa
dc.contributor.authorKlassen, Kat
dc.contributor.authorMitchell, Joanne
dc.contributor.authorCox, Christopher
dc.date.accessioned2020-05-18T23:32:45Z
dc.date.available2020-05-18T23:32:45Z
dc.date.issued2018
dc.description.abstractAs training in language documentation becomes part of the regular course offerings at many universities, there is a growing need to ensure that classroom discussions of documentary linguistic theory and best practices are balanced with the practical application of these skills and concepts. In this article, we consider Community Ser-vice Learning (CSL) in partnership with community-based organizations as one means of grounding language documentation training in realistic and collaborative practice. As a case study, we discuss one recent CSL project undertaken as a collaboration between the Yukon Native Language Centre and graduate students in a semester-long introductory course on language documentation at Carleton University. This collabo-ration focused on annotating recently digitized legacy language lessons for several Indigenous languages spoken in the Yukon Territory, Canada, using documentary linguistic software tools to create a text-searchable, multimedia database for future pedagogical applications. Drawing on the reflections of both community- and univer-sity-based collaborators, we discuss the design of this project, some of the challenges that needed to be addressed as it progressed, and offer several recommendations for future initiatives to integrate CSL into language documentation training.
dc.description.sponsorshipNational Foreign Language Resource Center
dc.identifier.citationCarreau, Kathryn, Melissa Dane, Kat Klassen, Joanne Mitchell, and Christopher Cox. 2020. Integrating collaboration in the classroom: Connecting community service learning to language documentation training. In Silva, Wilson de Lima and Katherine J. Riestenberg. (Eds.) Collaborative Approaches to the Challenges of Language Documentation and Conservation: Selected papers from the 2018 Symposium on American Indian Languages (SAIL). Language Documentation & Conservation Special Publication no. 20 [PP 6-19] Honolulu: University of Hawai'i Press.
dc.identifier.isbn978-0-9973295-8-2
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10125/24929
dc.publisherUniversity of Hawai'i Press
dc.relation.ispartofLD&C Special Publication
dc.rightsCreative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial Share Alike License
dc.subjectlanguage documentation
dc.subjectcommunity based collaboration
dc.subjectlanguage revitalization
dc.subjectcommunity university collaboration
dc.titleIntegrating collaboration into the classroom: Connecting community service learning to language documentation training

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