Remote Language Revitalisation Efforts during COVID-19

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Online Courses; COVID-19; Pandemics; School Closing; At Risk Students; Urban Schools; Language Maintenance; Native Language Instruction; American Indians; Videoconferencing; Flipped Classroom; Grade 1; Grade 2; Grade 3; Distance Education; Decolonization; American Indian Languages

10.1080/1475939X.2022.2077819

1475-939X
1747-5139

As schools shift to online instruction during the COVID-19 pandemic, it is important to support disenfranchised populations and keep issues of equity at the centre of our response. In this study, the authors focus on supporting one of the few urban-based Indigenous language schools in the United States because language revitalisation is critical for Native American communities. The authors explore the extent to which video conferencing and flipped classrooms support the development of a community of speakers. The study focuses on a single classroom of 16 students in first through third grade. The authors use a digital decolonisation framework focused on empowering local communities in conjunction with design-based research methodology to explore contextualised remote instruction solutions. They report on benefits for the development of a community of speakers from remote instruction that come with costs in reduced efficacy of language learning. Finally, they distil those results into preliminary design principles.

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2023

EJ1365689