Reversing Language Shift – How to Re-awaken a Language Tradition
Carmarthen, Wales
XIV Conference of the Foundation for Endangered Languages,
with University
of Wales Trinity Saint David
13-15 September 2010
Provisional programme
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Revision date: 11 September 2010
| Monday 13 September 2010 |
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Time |
Speaker |
Title |
9:00-10:00 |
REGISTRATION |
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10.00-10.30 |
INAUGURATION |
Introduction, Dr Hywel Glyn Lewis, Conference Chair Vice-Chancellor, Dr Medwin Hughes Welcome on behalf of FEL: Dr Nicholas Ostler |
Keynote Speaker 10.30-11.30 |
Conchúr Ó Giollagáin |
The Eclipse of the First Language Minority Speaker: Deficiencies in Ethnolinguistic Acquisition and its Evasive Discourse |
11:30-12.00 Coffee break |
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SESSION 1 Chair: Nicholas Ostler |
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12:00-12:30 |
Kenneth MacKinnon |
Growing a new generation of Gaelic speakers: an action plan in response to a Ministerial initiative |
12:30-13:00 |
Colm Ó Cinnseala |
Language Planning - from Theory to Practice
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13:00-14.00 Lunch Break |
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SESSION 2
Chair: Christopher Moseley |
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14:00-14:30 |
Peter J. Keegan, Alison Jones & Gavin T. L. Brown |
Indigenous language and culture for mainstream teacher education: students' knowledge and attitudes |
14:30-15:00 |
Anthony Jukes | Someone else's job: externalizing responsibility for language maintenance |
15:00-15:30 |
Ane Ortega & Estibaliz Amorrortu | The attitudes of non-minority language speakers to minority language revitalization: what are non-Basque speakers prepared to do for Basque? |
| 15:30-16:00 | McKenna Brown | Who Owns the Mayan Apocalypse? |
16:00-16:30 Tea break / FIRST VIEW OF BOOK EXHIBITION |
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SESSION 3
Chair: Steven Krauwer |
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16:30-17:00 |
Salem Mezhoud |
Ideologies of Unification and the Practice of Revitalization. Tamazight saw it all ...or almost. |
17:00-17:30 |
Robert Dunbar |
Does Scottish Gaelic need a Gàidhealtachd policy? |
17:30-18:00 Break / BOOK EXHIBITION |
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SESSION 4
Chair: Tjeerd de Graaf |
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18:00-18:30 |
Sheri J.Tatsch |
Language Revitalization in Northern California: Reports from the Field |
18:30-19:00 |
Julia Sallabank |
What are the aims of language revitalization? A critical review of the situation in Guernsey (Channel Islands ) |
20:00 CONFERENCE DINNER | ||
Tuesday 14 September |
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Time |
Speaker |
Title |
| 8.55-9:00 | Meri Huws, Pro Vice-Chancellor of University of Wales Trinity Saint David and Chair of the Welsh Language Board | |
| Keynote speaker 9:00-10:00 |
Jane Simpson | Mother-tongue medium education: lessons from the Australian backlash |
SESSION 5
Chair: Salem Mezhoud |
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10.00-10:30 |
Laura Berbusse and Mike Clauss |
Lomnak Majol |
10:30-11:00 Coffee break |
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SESSION 6
Chair: Christopher Moseley |
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| 11:00-11:30 | Aaron Waldrip & Mary Walworth | The Fua Le'o Project: promoting self-publication in Polynesian languages |
AGM |
FEL Annual General Meeting and elections |
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12:30-13.30 Lunch Break |
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13:30-15.30 Excursion |
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15:30-16:00 Tea break |
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SESSION 7
Chair: Steven Krauwer |
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16:00-16:30 |
Philippa Law |
Interacting with the BBC : the maintenance of 'authentic' vs. 'proper' Welsh |
16:30-17:00 |
John Hunt Peacock |
The Good News and the Bad News About Reviving My Spirit Lake Dakota Nation's Endangered Language |
17:00-17:30 |
Gari Lewis & Jeni Smallwood |
Pobl Ifanc:Ymbweru er mwyn Gweithredu / Young People: Empowering for Action |
17:30-18:00 Break / BOOK EXHIBITION |
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SESSION 8
Chair: Hywel Glyn Lewis |
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18:00-18:30 |
Nge Deris Meh & Kayam Fokoue Carole |
Towards a revitalization of Cameroonian languages via formal education |
18:30-19:00 |
Beatrice Clayre and Everlyn Oiruria |
Language Revitalisation and reversing language shift: Special problems in a multi - lingual and Cultural Context – A case of vernacular languages in Kenya |
20:00 DINNER |
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Wednesday 15 September |
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Time |
Speaker |
Title |
Keynote Speaker 09.00-10.00 |
Glyn Williams |
Theoretical Principles of Language Change |
SESSION 9
Chair: Salem Mezhoud |
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10:00-10:30 |
Jenefer Lowe |
Four Spellings and a Strategy |
10:30-11:00 Coffee break |
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SESSION 10
Chair: Hywel Glyn Lewis |
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11:00-11:30 |
Seyed Hadi and Nima Nasjian |
Is Azeri Going to Live or Leave? A critical study of institutional supports available to Azeri in Tabriz, Iran
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11:30-12:00 |
Cassie Smith-Christmas |
Language Practices and the Home Domain: Gaelic and Language Choice
over Three Generations
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12:00-12:30 |
Olimpia Rasom |
Language policy strategies: starting from women a better chance?
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| 12:30-13:00 | Davyth Hicks | Proposal for a Resolution for the Safeguarding of European Endangered Languages |
13:00-14:00 Lunch break |
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SESSION 11
Chair: Nicholas Ostle |
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14:00-16:00 |
Open session |
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16:00-16:30 Tea break |
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SESSION 12
Chair: Tjeerd de Graaf |
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16:00-17:30 |
Final Panel: Reversing Language Shift |
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| 17:30-18:00 | Conference close |
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