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SIMON FRASER UNIVERSITY

SPECIAL TOPICS:

NATIVE LANGUAGE CURRICULUM DEVELOPMENT - INTERIOR

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(NI .00)

Spring Semester, 1993

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Instructor: Dr. Marianne Boelscher Ignace

(January 5 - April 2)

SCES/SFU Program

Location: Kamloops

PREREQUISITES:

Knowledge of native language.

COURSE DESCRIPTION:

This course, aimed at native language teachers and those training to become

native language teachers, will provide an introduction and hands-on approach to the

design of native language curriculum with a focus on interior Salish languages.

Course materials, lectures and discussion will focus on issues involving general

concepts of curriculum design and adapting these to the design of native language

curriculum which is relevant to the cultural and practical needs of native communities

and native learners.

Specific topics to be covered here include the overall possibility of integrating

native language instruction into primary/secondary curriculum; articulating the

rationale for teaching native language in public schools; writing educational goals and

objectives; breaking down instruction into course units and lessons with specific

objectives and instructional content, and developing suitable methods of evaluation.

In discussing instructional objectives and content, students will also be exposed to

issues of second language teaching methodology in so far as they can be adapted to the

teaching of aboriginal languages in the classroom. Through specific assignments and

in-class projects, student swill participate in initiating the design of various components

of native language curriculum suited to their needs.

ORGANIZATION:

Bi-weekly, all-day lectures/seminars for a total of 39 hours of instruction

TEXTS:

Mueller, Delbert (1991). A Guide for Curriculum Writers.

- a list of articles on second language teaching and native language teaching;

- a sampling of curriculum materials of Interior Salish and other native languages, e.g.

van Eijk, Stat'imcets

Powell and Jenson, Learning Shuswat

Enowkin Centre, Okanagan Generic Language Project

EVALUATION:

Assignments: ?

40%

Course Project ?

50%

Participation ?

10%