David H. DeJong

Is Immersion the Key to Language Renewal? [David H. DeJong]

Publisher: 
Journal of American Indian Education
Year of publication: 
1998

“This article reviews the literature to determine the importance of immersion in language restoration (or preservation). The author argues that a new paradigm is needed to halt the decline in the number of Native Americans speaking their aboriginal tongue. The primary focus centers on displacing misperceptions related to language immersion that may inhibit an Indian community from implementing such a program.

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