During my previous spring semester, I enrolled myself in a Spanish class, where online homework was assigned. Before I began my homework, there was a video on the home page that caught my particular attention. Until then, I had no idea that languages could become endangered, or for that matter, go extinct all together. As I watched the video, I learned about a language in Mexico called Ayapaneco. Its sole native speakers are two elderly men in their seventies, but a fight has since left the two in silence for decades. If the two were to never speak to each other again, an entire culture, language, and way of life would cease to exist. However, the minds behind Vodafone.com built the first school of Ayapaneco in Ayapa, Mexico. With the help
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It mocks the original Language Nest organizations in New Zealand, but the Miriwoong Language Nest focuses primarily on education of the Miriwoong culture and language. According to the organization’s website, mirma.org, “The aim of the activity is to increase the knowledge and use of Miriwoong in the community, with a focus on early childhood.” As we have learned from our Introduction to Language textbooks, there is a chapter in which the critical period theory is explained in depth. This theory hypothesizes that during a specific span of a child’s developmental period, there is a time span in which language is learned at a surprisingly fast rate and learning a language is more efficient than it would be compared to his/her adolescence or adulthood (Fromkin, Rodman, and Hyams 486). There is a possibility that many organization like that of the Miriwoong Language Nest and Vodafone focus on the education of languages on younger generations because they believe in the Critical Period …show more content…
This institution has been active for over twenty-four years when locals brought to attention that their language was dying. One of the factors to the endangerment of Hawaiian was due to the annexation the Hawaii Islands to America. However, over the course of Pūnana Leo’s beginning in 1982, their mission is nearly accomplished as the language was brought from endangerment to two on the EGIDS, or institutional on the scale, with over 2,000 fluent speakers and 10,000 who can understand and speak the language at a comprehensible level. This rating means that Hawaiian is now safe from extinction since Pūnana Leo continues to thrive on the Hawaiian Islands. According to Pūnana Leo’s website, ahapunanaleo.org, the leading factor to the revival of the Hawaiian language is thanks to the programs that have been offered to young children, surrounding youths on the Hawaii with the original language and culture of the land have been key to the revitalization of the
It mocks the original Language Nest organizations in New Zealand, but the Miriwoong Language Nest focuses primarily on education of the Miriwoong culture and language. According to the organization’s website, mirma.org, “The aim of the activity is to increase the knowledge and use of Miriwoong in the community, with a focus on early childhood.” As we have learned from our Introduction to Language textbooks, there is a chapter in which the critical period theory is explained in depth. This theory hypothesizes that during a specific span of a child’s developmental period, there is a time span in which language is learned at a surprisingly fast rate and learning a language is more efficient than it would be compared to his/her adolescence or adulthood (Fromkin, Rodman, and Hyams 486). There is a possibility that many organization like that of the Miriwoong Language Nest and Vodafone focus on the education of languages on younger generations because they believe in the Critical Period …show more content…
This institution has been active for over twenty-four years when locals brought to attention that their language was dying. One of the factors to the endangerment of Hawaiian was due to the annexation the Hawaii Islands to America. However, over the course of Pūnana Leo’s beginning in 1982, their mission is nearly accomplished as the language was brought from endangerment to two on the EGIDS, or institutional on the scale, with over 2,000 fluent speakers and 10,000 who can understand and speak the language at a comprehensible level. This rating means that Hawaiian is now safe from extinction since Pūnana Leo continues to thrive on the Hawaiian Islands. According to Pūnana Leo’s website, ahapunanaleo.org, the leading factor to the revival of the Hawaiian language is thanks to the programs that have been offered to young children, surrounding youths on the Hawaii with the original language and culture of the land have been key to the revitalization of the