preserve the dying languages
Is enough being done to preserve languages ? Discuss.
Thesis statement : not enough being done
P1
Topic sentence/main idea :
Some efforts have been done to save dying languages.
Supporting idea1:
Documentation efforts attempt to record dying evidence.
Evidence
But there are encouraging signs that the field has turned a corner. The Volks-wagen Foundation, a German charity, just issued its second round of grants totaling more than $2, Whalen says. It has created a multimedia archive at the Max Plank Institute for Psycholinguistics in the Netherlands that can house recordings, grammars, dictionaries and other data on endangered languages. To fill the linguists to document Aweti(100 or so speakers in Brazil), Ega(about 300 speakers in Ivory Coast),Waima’a(a few hundred speakers in East Timor), and a dozen or so other languages unlikely to survive the century.
The Lisbet Rausing Charitable Fund, a new Birtish philanthropy ,has set aside $30 million for a massive documentation project. Barry Supple,an adviser to the foundation , says the money will probably be doled out over the course of 8 to 10 years.Part will be given to the School of Oriental and African Studies in London to train linguists specifically on field documentation of dying languages.But most of the money will go to fieldwork itself.
Supporting idea2
Immersion schools improve dying languages.
Evidence
20years ago in New Zealand ,Maori speakers set up “language nests,”in which preschoolers were immersed in the native language. Additional Maori-only classes were added as the children progreesed through elenmentary and secondary school. A similar approach was tried in Hawaii, with some success—the number of native speakers has stabilized at 1,000 or so, reports Joseph E. Grimes of SIL International,who is working on Oahu. Students can now get instruction in Hawaiian all the way through university. (They learn English as well.)(Wayt Gibbs)
In New Zealand, classes for children have slowed
Thesis statement : not enough being done
P1
Topic sentence/main idea :
Some efforts have been done to save dying languages.
Supporting idea1:
Documentation efforts attempt to record dying evidence.
Evidence
But there are encouraging signs that the field has turned a corner. The Volks-wagen Foundation, a German charity, just issued its second round of grants totaling more than $2, Whalen says. It has created a multimedia archive at the Max Plank Institute for Psycholinguistics in the Netherlands that can house recordings, grammars, dictionaries and other data on endangered languages. To fill the linguists to document Aweti(100 or so speakers in Brazil), Ega(about 300 speakers in Ivory Coast),Waima’a(a few hundred speakers in East Timor), and a dozen or so other languages unlikely to survive the century.
The Lisbet Rausing Charitable Fund, a new Birtish philanthropy ,has set aside $30 million for a massive documentation project. Barry Supple,an adviser to the foundation , says the money will probably be doled out over the course of 8 to 10 years.Part will be given to the School of Oriental and African Studies in London to train linguists specifically on field documentation of dying languages.But most of the money will go to fieldwork itself.
Supporting idea2
Immersion schools improve dying languages.
Evidence
20years ago in New Zealand ,Maori speakers set up “language nests,”in which preschoolers were immersed in the native language. Additional Maori-only classes were added as the children progreesed through elenmentary and secondary school. A similar approach was tried in Hawaii, with some success—the number of native speakers has stabilized at 1,000 or so, reports Joseph E. Grimes of SIL International,who is working on Oahu. Students can now get instruction in Hawaiian all the way through university. (They learn English as well.)(Wayt Gibbs)
In New Zealand, classes for children have slowed