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Special Sessions on Pedagogy in Language Conservation

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This year, we are featuring a series of four Special Sessions on Pedagogy in Language Conservation. Each session contains four talks and is focused on a theme relating to the notion of pedagogy for endangered language teaching.

One Special Session will occur each day of the conference in the same room and at the same time. The exact schedule will be announced later.
Special Session A:
"From Technical to Teachable: Strengthening the Interface Between Documentation, Revitalization, and Teaching"
Session Organizer: Dylan Herrick (U Oklahoma) & Tracy Hirata-Edds (U Kansas)
Talks:
  1. Dylan Herrick (U Oklahoma): "From technical to teachable: Phonetics and phonology"
  2. Tracy Hirata-Edds (U Kansas): "From technical to teachable: Tone and vowel length"
  3. Christopher Cox (Yukon Education): "From technical to teachable: Teaching morphology without templates"
  4. Olivia Sammons (U Alberta): "From technical to teachable: The role of texts in documentation and pedagogy"
Special Session B:
"The Teachable and the Learnable: The Role of Linguistics in Endangered Language Pedagogy"
Session Organizer: Jordan Lachler (U Alberta)
Talks:
  1. Sally Rice & Jordan Lachler (U Alberta): "New school linguistics for practitioners of oral languages"
  2. Jordan Lachler & Sally Rice (U Alberta): "Developing metalinguistic competence at CILLDI"
  3. Dorothy Thunder (U Alberta): "My Plains Cree (nêhiyawêwin) language classes"
  4. Eugene Alexis (Alexis Nakota Sioux Nation): "My Nakota/Stoney (Isga) language classes"
Special Session C:
"Learner-Centered Pedagogy: Adapting to Dialect Variation, Multilingualism, and Social Dynamics in Endangered Language Education"
Session Organizer: Haley DeKorne (U Pennsylvania)
Talks:
  1. Haley DeKorne (U Pennsylvania): "Recognizing contextual resources: Post-method approaches to building on learner's communicative repertoires"
  2. Janet Chávez Santiago (Research Library Juan de Cordova): "Building communicative competence and motivation among diverse learners of Zapotec in Teotitlan del Valle"
  3. Mario López Gopar (Universidad Autonoma Benito Juarez de Oaxaca): "Decolonizing pedagogies for Indigenous children: Valuing multiliteracies in classrooms"
  4. Kiara Ríos Ríos  (Universidad Autonoma Benito Juarez de Oaxaca): "Flexible pedagogical techniques for working with dominant languages, dialect diversity and prejudices in endangered language classrooms"
Special Session D:
"Language Pedagogy and Practice in Indigenous Australia: Learning Observations from Infancy to Teenhood"
Session Organizer: Barbara Kelly (U Melbourne)
Talks:
  1. Barbara Kelly & Rachel Nordlinger (U Melbourne): "Acquiring a polysynthetic Australian language: From infancy to school"
  2. Gemma Morales, Lauren Gawne & Gillian Wigglesworth (U Melbourne): "Bilingual education in Australian Aboriginal communities: The forty years of the Yirrkala step model"
  3. Carmel O'Shannessy (U Michigan): "Informed pedagogy in light of Fishman's five questions"
  4. Inge Kral (Australian National U): "Pedagogy or practice? Indigenous youth and language maintenance in out of school settings"