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EDUCATION 389-3

SPECIAL TOPIC: ST'AT'IMX NATIVE LANGUAGE LITERACY AND

ITS APPLICATION IN THE CLASSROOM

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(D1.00)

Intersession, 1992

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Instructor: Dr. Marianne Boelseher Ignace

(May 4 - June 12)

SCES/SFU Program, Kamloops

PREREQUISITES:

Some fluency in

St'at'imcets.

COURSE DESCRIPTION

This course will provide practical instruction in literacy of a Salish Language, namely

St'at'imcets (Upper Lillooet). It is intended for speakers of this native language who are

currently teaching it in primary or secondary schools. First, the relevance and history of

orthographies and of literacy for native language teaching will be discussed. Next,

students will be familiarized with the basic elements of phonetics and phonemics and the

practical alphabet already developed for their language by linguists (i.e. the alphabet

devised by J. Van Eijk). For the remainder of the course, students will explore the uses of

literacy in aboriginal language teaching through a hands-on approach. This will involve

the research, compilation and production of materials, i.e. myths/stories, songs or other

native language materials for the classroom.

ORGANIZATION

6 1i2 hours of seminar/week.

EVALUATION

4 Quizzes

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40%

Classroom Project ?

40%

Participation

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20%

TEXTS

Hughes, Ken, ed., You Took my Talk: Aboriginal Literac

y and Empowerment.

Van Eijk, Jan, Ucwalmicwts.

L. Williams/J. VanEijk, Cuvstwi MaIb Ucwalmicwts (Intermediate/Advanced) and

short additional short texts and hand-outs.