TEA Center: Reclaiming the O'odham Language

TEA 中心：夺回 Oodham 语言

• 批准号: 2231194
• 负责人: Paul Robertson
• 金额: $ 324.14万
• 依托单位: Tohono O'odham Community College
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Continuing Grant
• 财政年份: 2023
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2023-04-01 至 2028-03-31
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=2231194&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: TEA; Center; Reclaiming; odham; Language

A goal of the Tribal Colleges and Universities Program (TCUP) is to promote the advancement of intellectual leadership within TCUP institutions that will support them in addressing the scientific or engineering priorities of their tribes, communities, or broadly of the United States. Linked with this goal is the TCU Enterprise Advancement Centers (TEA Centers) funding strand, which provides support for TCUP institutions in establishing thematically based centers whose work applies the college’s STEM instruction and research capacity to realize benefits for their identified community. The O’odham Language Center (OLC), conceived and directed by personnel from Tohono O’odham Community College, directly aligns with the TEA Center concept in the significant positive impacts it will have on the Tohono O’odham Nation in reclaiming the O’odham language. Using a cross-generational approach, the OLC will strive to perpetuate the language through the delivery of language immersion programs at Head Start Centers on the reservation in a manner designed to develop the language fluency of pre-K students who are citizens of the O’odham Nation. A slate of comprehensive activities will be undertaken that includes the engagement of community instructors fluent in the O’odham language and assisting students’ families in developing their own fluency in support of the overarching goal of reclaiming their Indigenous language.The OLC will employ evidenced-based pedagogical methods in the language immersion programs while customizing the curriculum for the specific school and community settings in which activities will occur. The work will be focused initially in three Head Start Centers that have foundational elements of a language program already in place. As the instructional model is optimized over time, the work will expand to include all six of the Head Start Centers on the Tohono O’odham Nation. Instructors will advance their own expertise through in situ practice as well as professional development with linguists and language education experts. To contribute to the greater knowledge base, the OLC will disseminate its findings throughout the tribal college community, the Tohono O’odham community, its related tribes, and other Indigenous communities in Arizona and North America. Through the development of the immersion curriculum and instructional model, a wide range of resources will become available that may be used to inform language continuity efforts across tribal communities.This award reflects NSF's statutory mission and has been deemed worthy of support through evaluation using the Foundation's intellectual merit and broader impacts review criteria.

部落学院和大学计划（TCUP）的一个目标是促进TCUP机构内智力领导的进步，这将支持他们解决他们的部落，社区或广泛的美国的科学或工程优先事项。与此目标相关联的是TCU企业发展中心（TEA中心）的资金链，它为TCUP机构提供支持，以建立基于主题的中心，这些中心的工作应用学院的STEM教学和研究能力，为其确定的社区实现利益。奥厄姆语言中心（OLC）由托霍诺奥厄姆社区学院的人员构思和指导，与TEA中心的概念直接一致，它将对托霍诺奥厄姆民族在恢复奥厄姆语言方面产生重大的积极影响。使用跨代方法，OLC将努力通过在保留地的启智中心提供语言浸入式课程来使语言永久化，旨在提高奥哈姆民族公民的学前学生的语言流利程度。将开展一系列全面的活动，其中包括聘请能流利使用奥哈姆语的社区教师，并协助学生家庭发展自己的流利程度，以支持恢复土著语言的总体目标。OLC将在语言浸入式课程中采用基于证据的教学方法，同时为活动发生的特定学校和社区环境定制课程。这项工作将首先集中在三个已经具备语言课程基本要素的启智中心。随着教学模式的不断优化，这项工作将扩展到Tohono O 'odham民族的所有六个开端中心。教师将通过现场实践以及与语言学家和语言教育专家的专业发展来提高自己的专业知识。为了扩大知识库，OLC将在部落大学社区、托霍诺奥哈姆社区、相关部落以及亚利桑那州和北美的其他土著社区传播其调查结果。通过开发浸入式课程和教学模式，可以获得广泛的资源，这些资源可用于为跨部落社区的语言连续性工作提供信息。该奖项反映了美国国家科学基金会的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的知识价值和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估，被认为值得支持。