Promoting Interest in Learning Yorùbá Language Using Mobile Game

This paper describes acute areas in which technology plays a role in language and culture revitalization. It was discovered that in order for people to learn a new language, they must express interest in that language. This work presents a new way of arousing the interest of people in learning Yorùbá language through the use of mobile game thereby promoting and revitalizing Yorùbá language and culture. The mobile application was evaluated using questionnaire to selected participants who have the mobile game developed installed on their phones and explored the application, and then rated based on some criteria such as extensibility, ease of use and user interest in learning Yorùbá Language after playing the game. The results showed that 76% of respondents rated the game ease of use as above average, 70% and 90% of the respondents rated the extensibility of the game and interest in learning Yorùbá after playing game above average respectively. This technology-based application will serve as an interesting and fun-filled approach of getting people to express interest in learning native indigenous language individually and as a group.

Activation and Revitalization. The Revival Plan of Yihe, Nanjing

Based on the revival planning of Yihe, Nanjing, this paper emphasizes the importance of culture to the metropolis, explores the alignment of new formats and historical spaces, and generalizes several strategies of historical space activation on the respects of culture revitalization, industry innovation and space activation.

Decolonizing Aboriginal Education in the 21st Century

Concerned by the need to decolonize education for Aboriginal students, the authors explore philosophies of Indigenous ways of knowing and those of the 21st century learning movement. In their efforts to propose a way forward with Aboriginal education, the authors inquire into harmonies between Aboriginal knowledges and tenets of 21st century education. Three stories from the authors’ research serve as examples of decolonizing approaches that value the congruence between 21st century education and Indigenous knowledges. These stories highlight the need for two-eyed seeing, co-constructing curriculum for language and culture revitalization, and drawing from community contexts to create curriculum.

Inga Language and Culture Revitalization in Putumayo, Colombia

Increasing levels of Quechua–Spanish bilingualism and increased use of Spanish within indigenous communities and classrooms have given rise to concern about Quechua language maintenance (Hornberger, 1988, 1998, 1999; Hornberger & CoronelMolina, 2004). The present investigation is preliminary and explores the possibility of bilingual intercultural education to promote Quechua (Inga) language revitalization in the Putumayo region of Colombia. Because of the large role that schooling has played in the language shift process, Inga language revitalization efforts have focused on implementing use of the Inga language in schools. This paper offers suggestions based on research in second language acquisition (SLA), language revitalization, and bilingual intercultural education to improve recent efforts and overcome the many overt and covert challenges that exist to bilingual education implementation in Putumayo, Colombia. This article attempts to bring such forms of resistance to the surface and provide suggestions for overcoming them, in hopes of facilitating the grassroots-initiated language planning goals of culture revitalization and reversing language shift that are already in place.