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David NathanEndangered Languages Archive
SOAS University of London
3L Summer School, Conference, 6 July 2012
Training for language documentation:
trends in training and methods
Training for language documentation:
trends in training and methods
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Who are we?
School of Oriental and African Studies, U London
Hans Rausing Endangered Languages Project
Documentation ProgramELDP Archive Program
ELARAcademic ProgramELAP
funds
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What is language documentation?
documentary linguistics: you already know
from a training perspective:documentation skills = linguistics skills + X
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phonology, morphology, typology etc
documentation skills = linguistics skills + X
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What is ‘X’?
field skills media (recording etc) data management …
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Field skills
language learning language investigation health and safety manage equipment,
electrical supply etc interpersonal skills others as appreciated or needed by
community
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Media
what to record environment equipment choice and
combination equipment settings, methods, usage carrier, backup, labeling, naming editing, selecting, converting etc
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Data management
logical organisation of files file naming formats and encoding inventory/catalogue metadata backup
ELAR
Project Project
Collection Collection
Bundle Bundle
Item
Item
Item
Item
Item
Collection
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Is there something else?
revitalisation: pedagogy, curriculum and materials development, language policy etc
‘applied linguistic’: lexicography, orthography, pedagogy, multimedia, dissemination
archiving true multidisciplinary
approaches publicity and raising wider
awareness
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Training trends
AILDI (1978-) Arizona, Leanne Hinton and Lucille Watahomigie – community workshops, run in universities
Rama Project (1984-) Colette Grinevald master-apprentice program (1992) DoBeS projects and training, late 1990s- postgraduate programs, University of
Hawaii, SOAS (2002-) growing summer schools and workshops,
institutional, in-country or in community (2005-)
within-documentation project training (2005-)
Julian Lang
notebook
audio
glossing s/w
computer
www
annotation s/w
multimedia
video
hi audio
lo audio (eg BOLD)
images
social networking
mobile, GPS
1990 1995 2000 2005 2010
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Who is training who?
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Community member roles
community members have higher profile as revitalisation goals appear it’s up to them which languages are
revitalised they know who are relevant
learners, teachers they know suitable (and unsuitable)
topics, teaching theories/methods only they can evaluate the outcomes increasingly, ‘they’ are us!
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Problem
how to maintain the agency and drive of speakers and to reward speakers throughout the whole process ??
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Planet of the apps
a thought experiment …
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Planet of the apps
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Discussion
documentary linguistics has grabbed the agenda for addressing language endangerment, bringing with it certain values, goals and methods
challenges dealing with diversity “best practices” ? lack of co-ordinated training curricula
and progression unclarity about what documentation is,
its accountability, and its methods and training
how to maintain agency of speakers throughout
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fini the end