Conference: Child Language Acquisition Symposium for Indigenous Communities

土著儿童语言研究中心（ICLRC）正在主办土著社区儿童语言习得研讨会（classic），以支持和发展美国和加拿大的语言巢项目，在那里，婴儿，幼儿和幼儿沉浸在土著语言中，以便他们能够流利地说话。这个为期两天的会议通过为土著社区成员和语言研究人员创造文化和教育机会，促进与语言巢穴合作的实证研究。classic通过其独特性实现了这一目标，它公平地将社区语言项目、参加这些项目的孩子的家庭以及可能与这些项目一起进行研究的人聚集在一起。会议为这些不同的利益攸关方提供了平等的时间和机会来发言和发表意见。这种对话应该导致语言巢之间以及语言巢和研究人员之间的伙伴关系。很少有针对土著语言的习得研究。本次会议为语言巢代表、家长和语言学研究人员提供了一个重要的场所，讨论如何在非常年幼的儿童中进行第一语言习得研究和语言振兴倡议，以相互支持。会议支持红十字国际委员会的一个主要目标，即与社区合作，确保土著语言的儿童语言习得的活力，并以道德和负责任的方式传播儿童语言习得研究的知识。此外，会议讨论可以确定经验支持的土著语言习得发展路径，为语言政策提供信息，并形成以证据为基础的课程。classic的独特研究重点是关注土著社区的第一语言习得，这些群体在儿童语言研究中一直没有得到充分的代表。本次会议支持土著人民与他们自己的社区合作领导重要的儿童语言习得研究的倡议。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。

The Indigenous Child Language Research Center (ICLRC) is hosting the Child Language Acquisition Symposium for Indigenous Communities (CLASIC) to support and grow language nest programs across the US and Canada, where infants, toddlers, and young children are immersed in an Indigenous language so that they are raised as fluent speakers. This two-day gathering fosters empirical research in partnership with language nests by creating cultural and educational opportunities for both Indigenous community members and linguistic researchers. CLASIC accomplishes this goal by virtue of its uniqueness as a conference that equitably brings together community language programs, the families of children who attend these programs, and those who may carry out research with these programs. The conference provides equal time and opportunity for each of these diverse stakeholders to speak to and be heard. Such dialogue should result in partnerships among language nests and between language nests and researchers. Very little acquisition research is done with Indigenous languages. This conference provides a venue for language nest representatives, parents, and linguistic researchers to have important discussions of how first language acquisition research and language revitalization initiatives among very young children can support one another. The conference supports a primary goal of ICLRC, which is to work in partnership with communities to ensure the vitality of child language acquisition of Indigenous languages and to disseminate knowledge on child language acquisition research in an ethical and responsible way. Additionally, conference discussion can identify empirically supported developmental paths for Indigenous language acquisition, inform language policy, and shape evidence-based curriculum. The unique research focus of CLASIC draws attention to first language acquisition among Indigenous communities, groups that have historically been underrepresented in child language research. This conference supports initiatives for Indigenous people to lead important child language acquisition research collaboratively and with their own 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.