Description: America's Second Tongue : American Indian Education and the Ownership of English, 1, Hardcover by Spack, Ruth, ISBN 0803242913, ISBN-13 9780803242913, Brand New, Free shipping in the US This remarkable study sheds new light on American Indian mission, reservation, and boarding school experiences by examining the implementation of English-language instruction and its effects on Native students. A federally mandated system of English-only instruction played a significant role in dislocating Native people fromtheir traditional ways of life in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. The effect of this policy, however, was more than another instance of cultural loss-English was transformed by and even empowered many Native students. Drawing on archival documents, autobiography, fiction, and English as a Second Language theory and practice, America's Second Tongue traces the shifting ownership of English as the language was transferred from one population to another and its uses were transformed by Native students, teachers, and writers. How was the English language taught to Native students, and how did they variably reproduce, resist, and manipulate this new way of speaking, writing, and thinking? The perspectives and voices of government officials, missionaries, European American and Native teachers, and the students themselves reveal the rationale for the policy, how it was implemented in curricula, and how students from dozens of different Native cultures reacted differently to being forced to communicate orally and in writing through a uniform foreign language.
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Book Title: America's Second Tongue : American Indian Education and the Owner
Number of Pages: 232 Pages
Language: English
Publication Name: America's Second Tongue : American Indian Education and the Ownership of English, 1860-1900
Publisher: University of Nebraska Press
Item Height: 0.6 in
Publication Year: 2002
Subject: Native American Languages, English As a Second Language, General, Linguistics / Sociolinguistics, Ethnic Studies / Native American Studies, Philosophy, Theory & Social Aspects
Type: Textbook
Item Weight: 8.4 Oz
Item Length: 9.8 in
Subject Area: Foreign Language Study, Social Science, Language Arts & Disciplines, Education
Author: Ruth Spack
Item Width: 5.9 in
Format: Hardcover
