"American Indian Language Policy and School Success"

The article begins with the explanation of the Native American Languages Act, which has three parts to it: first, it continues the determination that has been effect for the past 20 years. Second, it reverses the supression of the Native American Language that has been imposed over the years. Third, it has caused a reaction to make English the official language in the United States because now, Native Americans are being recognized for thier heratige and how this act with help Native Americans with thier education.

There are problems with Indian education because their language and culture has been supressed so much that the problem becomes "how do we change Indian Education without repeating the mistakes of the past."

The problem also occurs because there is not enouph teachers that are specialized in Indian education. The article states that these type of children memorize thier math, he copries letters or forms, and copy the actions of thier student.

Luther Standing Beear, a student then a teacher, said that "the Indian children should have been taught how to translate the Sioux tongue into English properly; but the Eglish teachers only taught them the English language, like a bunch of parrots. While they could read all the words placed in front of them, they did not know the proper use of them; thier meaning was a puzzle.

The author concludes that we can't always try to "Americanize" people and even the tribes are trying to teach thier children the American language, while preserving thier culture at the same time.

last practice for final

Dear all,

As a last practice for our final exam, please open the Picasa show of four comic slides, and find ONE grammar mistake on each slide (no punctuation)!

Write the four corrected sentences on a piece of paper.
Exchange your piece of paper with your neighbor and let him/her check whether you were right.

Here's the LINK.

Have fun!

Dr. V