Jane Griffith. Words Have a Past: The English Language, Colonialism, and the Newspapers of Indian Boarding Schools. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2019. 328 pp.

2020 ◽  
Vol 60 (2) ◽  
pp. 270-273
Author(s):  
Matthew Villeneuve
Keyword(s):  
English Language ◽  
Boarding Schools ◽  
University Of Toronto ◽  
Indian Boarding Schools

Indian Boarding School Gothic in Older than America and The Only Good Indian

2015 ◽  
Vol 47 (2) ◽  
pp. 5-27
Author(s):  
Elizabeth Kella
Keyword(s):  
North American ◽  
Boarding School ◽  
Boarding Schools ◽  
Spiritual Values ◽  
Feature Films ◽  
Native North American ◽  
Indian Boarding School ◽  
Visual Sovereignty ◽  
History Of ◽  
Indian Boarding Schools

This article examines the appropriation and redirection of the Gothic in two contemporary, Native-centered feature films that concern a history that can be said to haunt many Native North American communities today: the history of Indian boarding schools. Georgina Lightning’s Older than America (2008) and Kevin Willmott’s The Only Good Indian (2009) make use of Gothic conventions and the figures of the ghost and the vampire to visually relate the history and horrors of Indian boarding schools. Each of these Native-centered films displays a cinematic desire to decenter Eurocentric histories and to counter mainstream American genres with histories and forms of importance to Native North American peoples. Willmott’s film critiques mythologies of the West and frontier heroism, and Lightning attempts to sensitize non-Native viewers to contemporary Native North American concerns while also asserting visual sovereignty and affirming spiritual values.

scholarly journals IMPROVING STUDENTS’ ENGLISH-SPEAKING SKILLS THROUGH BEHAVIOUR MODIFICATION IN INDONESIAN ISLAMIC BOARDING SCHOOLS

2018 ◽  
Vol 7 (2) ◽  
pp. 146-156
Author(s):  
Izzuddin A
Keyword(s):  
English Language ◽  
Language Teaching ◽  
Boarding Schools ◽  
English Language Teaching ◽  
Daily Activities ◽  
Behaviour Modification ◽  
English Speaking ◽  
Speaking Skills

A number of modern Islamic Boarding Schools (IBS) have long implemented a unique English Language Teaching (ELT) strategy in improving their students’ English-speaking skills. In IBS, for example, head of language department requires the students to communicate in English in daily activities, and punishment is imposed to those who do not speak English. However, there was no specifically academic term used to describe such strategy, nor was there a study to investigate the effectiveness of the strategy. This essay investigates what IBS-applied ELT strategy is, and to what extent it is effective in improving speaking skills of the students. It is found that IBS has made use of a behaviour modification as ELT strategy. The behaviour modification is able to encourage students to communicate in English in their daily activities. It also leads students to acquire accuracy, complexity and fluency in speaking.

Brief Reviews - Regional Language Studies in Newfoundland, ed. William Kirwin. St. John’s: Department of English Language and Literature, Memorial University of Newfoundland. - Problèmes de Sémantique, rédaction par Judith McA’Nulty. Cahier de Linguistique No. 2. Montréal: Les Presses de L’Université du Québec, 1973. Pp. 252. - Odawa Language Project: Second Report, ed. Glyne L. Piggott and Jonathan Kaye. (Linguistic Series No. 1). Centre for Linguistic Studies, University of Toronto, 1973. Pp. iii + 319. - A User’s Guide to the Phonological Calculator, by P. H. Roosen-Runge and Jonathan Kaye. (Linguistic Series No. 2). Centre for Linguistic Studies, University of Toronto, 1973. Pp. 90. - A Catalog of Dictionaries: English Language, American Indian and Foreign Languages, by Jean Hamer. The Louis E. Kahn Collection. Cincinnati: Department of Rare Books and Special Collections, Public Library, 1972. Pp. xi + 94. $1.95. - Annotated Bibliography of Southern American English, by James B. McMillan. Florida: U. of Miami Press, 1971. Pp. 173. - A Bibliography of the Sanskrit Texts of the Saddharmapundarikasutra, by Akira Yuyama. Canberra: Australian National U. Press, 1970. Pp. xxxv + 115. $6.10. - Principles and Methods of Contemporary Structural Linguistics, (Janua Linguarum, Series Minor, 144) by Ju. D. Apresjan. Trans. Dina B. Crockett. The Hague: Mouton, 1973. Pp. 349. - An Introduction to Generative Grammar, by Nicholas Ruwet. Trans. N. S. H. Smith. Amsterdam: North-Holland Publishing Co., 1973. (North Holland Linguistic Series, 7). Pp. xv + 372. $27.50 (cloth), $18.25 (paper).

1975 ◽  
Vol 20 (2) ◽  
pp. 233-237
Author(s):  
J. K. Chambers
Keyword(s):  
English Language ◽  
Public Library ◽  
University Of Toronto ◽  
Special Collections ◽  
Regional Language ◽  
Language Studies ◽  
North Holland Publishing ◽  
Language And Literature ◽  
Structural Linguistics ◽  
Southern American English
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