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Nsyilxcən

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Language Learning and Teaching

Language Learning and Teaching

Language in the Home

Language in the Home

Immersion Education

Immersion Education
n’łəqʷcin (clear speech): 1,000 hours to mid-intermediate N’syilxcn proficiency (Indigenous language, Syilx, Okanagan-Colville, n’qilxwcn, Interior Salish)
One-thousand hours of intensive instruction, following second-language acquisition techniques and honouring our Indigenous contexts, brings a group of adults to mid-intermediate speech levels. As intermediate speakers, our role and responsibility will become clear: to create immersion workspheres, write advanced materials, teach, and raise children in the language. The author, a Syilx language activist and Syilx Nation member, creates an intensive adult immersion class in a house. The five women live together for six months to achieve mid intermediate fluency. They follow the Salish School of Spokane Curriculum and achieve measurable results. PhD Thesis.
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https://open.library.ubc.ca/cIRcle/collections/ubctheses/24/items/1.0074314
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