NS111 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Language Death, Language Proficiency

• School: University of Alberta
• Department: Native Studies
• Course: NS111
• Professor: D' Arcy Vermette

Document Summary

Language programming can be harmful to the survival of the language within the communities. Speakers may be relocated out of their communities to teach their language in institutions, which may in turn prevent community members from learning their language had these speakers being present. Increases the persons ability to obtain a better job, increase income, or further participate in society (see 195) Tension when new languages are learned (p. 185). At the same time, this may create new tensions with new/other languages being learned. The killing of languages without killing the speakers. Targetted or passive action, if one wishes to succeed in education or within society he must speak english. Education is the primary focus of the article. The ongoing dominance of colonial languages over indigenous linguistic groups continues to fuel linguicide (para. 1). In mandating groups of people to function only in the language of the colonizers increases the influence colonizers will have over them.