Publications

Publication details [#42862]

Mitchell, D. Roy, IV. 2005. Tlingit Language Immersion Retreats: Creating New Language Habitat for the Twenty-First Century. International Journal of the Sociology of Language 172 : 187–195.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

education | language maintenance | language proficiency | language revival

Language as a subject

Tlingit

Place, Publisher

De Gruyter

Journal WWW

www.degruyter.com/journal/key/IJSL/html

Annotation

This paper discusses three Tlingit language immersion retreats, operated by the Alaskan Sealaska Heritage Institute (SHI), and related challenges, especially in case of limited language skills.