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Community Engaged Learning & Teaching

Heritage & Indigenous Language Documentation and Revitalization

National and Local Language Policies

Teacher Reflections & Workshops

Grant Writing & Consultation

Class Syllabi Samples (copyrighted)

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

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)
Warm Springs Ichishkin Dctionary (Editing team, Summer 2025)

Recent Projects (under construction)

Community Engaged Learning Teacher Reflections: Interdisciplinary-Collaborative Research Project 2024-2026
Documenting Warm Springs Ichishkiin, an endangered language of Oregon (DEL, NSF)
Warm Springs Ichishkin Dctionary Project 2022-2025
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

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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