"If They Want Navajo to Be Learned, Then They Should Require It in All Schools": Navajo Teenagers' Experiences, Choices, and Demands Regarding Navajo Language
"If They Want Navajo to Be Learned, Then They Should Require It in All Schools": Navajo Teenagers' Experiences, Choices, and Demands Regarding Navajo Language
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“如果他们想要学习纳瓦霍语，那么他们应该在所有学校都要求它”：纳瓦霍青少年对纳瓦霍语的经历、选择和要求
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10.1353/wic.2007.0009
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2007
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T. Lee
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20世纪80年代初，当我还是纳瓦霍族内陆地区的一名中学生时，我所有同龄人的第一语言都是纳瓦霍语。当时他们在学校的选择是在他们之间和纳瓦霍老师之间说纳瓦霍语。大约15年后，当我成为保留地的一名高中教师时，我的学生基本上都是用英语交流的。即使他们的纳瓦霍语说得很好，他们在学校里选择的语言也是英语。然而，从我与他们的谈话中，我知道他们对自己的传统感到自豪，并且坚信纳瓦霍语是重要的，值得了解和理解。当学校急切地试图推广纳瓦霍语，联邦项目也支持这些努力时，纳瓦霍青少年选择不说纳瓦霍语，至少不在学校公开场合说。如今，越来越多的纳瓦霍青少年来学校时并不流利地使用纳瓦霍语，或者英语是他们唯一的语言。我对语言丧失的个人和专业观察和经历促使我对纳瓦霍高中发生的事情产生了兴趣，特别是对影响纳瓦霍青少年选择语言的因素产生了兴趣。我就读的高中非常重视纳瓦霍语，并在课程和学校活动的各个方面提供纳瓦霍语学习。我知道一所学校可以对语言学习产生积极的影响，因为它对我和我的同龄人产生了积极的影响。本2007年春季WICAZO SA审查的目的
When I was a middle school student in the interior region of the Navajo Nation in the early 1980s, all my peers' first language was Navajo. Their choice in school at that time was to speak Navajo among themselves and with Navajo teachers. When I became a high school teacher on the reservation some fifteen years later, my students mostly spoke English with one another. Even if they spoke Navajo well, their language of choice in school was English. Yet, from my conversations with them, I knew that they were proud of their heritage and strong in their conviction that the Navajo language is important to know and understand. At a time when schools were eagerly trying to promote the Navajo language and federal programs supported these endeavors, Navajo teenagers were choosing not to speak Navajo, at least not publicly in school. Today more Navajo teenagers come to school with less Navajo fluency or with English as their only language. My personal and professional observations and experiences with language loss prompted 7 my interest in what was going on in Navajo high schools and especially in what was influencing Navajo teenagers' choices in their language. The high school I attended greatly valued the Navajo language and provided for Navajo language learning in all facets of curriculum and school events. I knew a school could have a positive impact on language learning because it did for me and my peers. The purpose of this SPRING 2007 WICAZO SA REVIEW