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Community-Based Learning & Teaching
Heritage & Indigenous Language Documentation and Revitalization
National and Local Language Policies
Teacher Training
Grant Writing & Consultation
Class Syllabi Samples (copyrighted, but samples available upon request)
- Maintenance and Revitalization of Endangered Languages
- Educational Linguistics
- Introduction to Native American Languages
- Heritage Language Acquisition
- Language Planning and Policy
- Online: Senior Capstone Grant Writing for Language Sustainability
- Online: Senior Capstone: Indigenous Grant Writing
- Online: Senior Capstone: Indigenous Language Activism
- Hybrid/Online: Senior Capstone: Barbie's Village: Creating a tiny village for a Native community (new!)
Publication Samples
- Heritage Languages at Higher Education (Book Chapter)
- Language Revitalization Program Development (PDF Article, published in the book '30 Year Tradition of Speaking from our Heart' through the AILDI)
- Towards National Heritage Languages Policy Development (Session Co-Chair with Dr. Terry Wiley)
- Research Ethics (Encyclopedia Chapter, November 2012)
- Linguistics: Community-based Language Revitalization. In: Iphofen R. (eds) Handbook of Research Ethics and Scientific Integrity. Springer (Encyclopedia Chapter, September 2019; Online 2020)
- [Translation] Chapter 5 of Learning Through Serving: A Student Guidebook and Civic Engagement across Academic Disciplines (Book chapter translation, co-authored) University Okayama, 2020
- Post Native Speakerism and Multilingual Subject: Language Policy, Practice and Pedagogy (Book Chapter, co-authored, Fall 2020)
Recent Projects (under construction)
- Documenting Warm Springs Ichishkiin, an endangered language of Oregon (DEL, NSF)
- Warm Springs Ichishkin Dctionary Project 2022-2023
- Community Based Learning & Teaching Workshop for Japanese Professionals
- Hatfield Public Service Grant 2017-2018
- Japanese Heritage Language Project
- Documentation of Kiksht
- Urban Native Community Survey
- Collaborative Project (with NILI): Revisiting SB690: Certification for Teaching Native American Languages: Indigenous Languages Teacher Certification Survey [Preliminary Results as of 2012.11.07]
- Collaborative Project (with ELAR): Community Workshop on Language Archive and Documentation
- Recovering Voices at Smithsonian with Warm Springs tribes; OPB article
- 向野堅一記念館(Kouno Kenichi Memorial Museum)
Research Interests
- Community-Based Language Maintenance and Revitalization
- Community-Based Learning and Teaching
- Classroom Cultures
- Discourse Grammar
- Endangered Languages
- Language Documentation Methods
- Research Methods and Ethics
- Second/Heritage Language Acquisition/Pedagogy
- Theory Development in Language Planning and Policy
- Use of Technology as Language Maintenance/Revitalization Tool
Nariyo Kono, Ph.D nariyo@pdx.edu Capstone, University Studies Center for Public Service, Hatfield School of Government Portland State University
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