Language and Literacy Teaching for Indigenous Education

Norbert Francis teaches courses in language learning and language teaching at Northern Arizona University. He has worked as a bilingual immersion teacher in the United States and in bilingual indigenous community schools in Mexico. His primary interests lie in the study of child language development, second language learning, and biliteracy. Jon Reyhner is currently professor of Bilingual/Multicultural Education at Northern Arizona University. Formerly co-ordinator of the Indian Bilingual Teacher Training Program at Montana State University-Billings, he has worked as a teacher and school administrator in Indian community schools in Arizona, Montana and New Mexico. His research interests include improving the academic achievement of American Indian students and indigenous language revitalization.

• PrefaceAbbreviations Part 1: A Survey of Indigenous Languages in Education in the Americas1 Prospects for Learning and Teaching Indigenous Languages2 State of the Languages3 Language Policy and Language Planning: The Role of the School and Indigenous Language Literacy Part 2: Curriculum and Materials, Classroom Strategies4 Promoting Additive Bilingual Development 5 The Bilingual Classroom 6 Biliteracy: Teaching Reading and Writing in the Indigenous Language 7 Language Assessment 8 Conclusion: A Teaching Model for Realizing the Potential of Additive Bilingualism 9 Resources for Schools and Communities Notes Glossary Appendix A Appendix B Appendix C Appendix D Appendix E References Index