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13-620: The program was developed by Leanne Hinton , working with the Native California Network and its subsidiary committee, the Advocates for Indigenous California Language Survival. The program was developed in collaboration with the speakers of six Indigenous California languages: Karuk , Hupa , Yurok , Wintu , Yowlumne , and Mojave . The MALLP ran for the first time in the summer of 1993, and has grown each year since its inception. By 1996, only three years after it began,

26-745: A Cultural Freedom Award, which honours individuals who support communities in upholding diversity, cultural freedom and creativity, from the Lannan Foundation . In 2012, she was awarded the Language, Linguistics, and the Public award from the Linguistic Society of America . Breath of Life (language restoration workshops) In Breath of Life workshops , linguists help members of Native American communities access and use archival material documenting their ancestral languages in

39-523: A linguistic perspective," written under the supervision of Margaret Langdon . After joining the Berkeley faculty in 1978, Hinton began working with California languages. Hinton specializes in American Indian languages , sociolinguistics , and language revitalization . She has been described as "an authority on how and why languages are being lost, the significance of language diversity, and

52-698: Is a consulting board member. In collaboration with Andrew Garrett , Hinton has also directed a project to digitize many of the SCOIL records, which are now available through the California Language Archive . Hinton was involved in the creation of the Master-Apprentice Language Learning Program while working with indigenous language speakers in California. In 2006, Leanne Hinton was awarded

65-490: Is based on ten main points: Since its creation, Mentor-Apprentice programs have been adopted by several other Indigenous language groups, including: Leanne Hinton Leanne Hinton (born 28 September 1941) is an American linguist and emerita professor of linguistics at the University of California at Berkeley . Hinton received her PhD in 1977 from UC San Diego , with a dissertation entitled " Havasupai songs:

78-817: The National Endowment for the Humanities . The purpose of the workshop is to teach participants how to: The Breath of Life Institute has been supported by " Documenting Endangered Languages " (DEL), a joint program of the National Science Foundation and the National Endowment for the Humanities . Partners include the National Museum of Natural History , The National Museum of the American Indian ,

91-574: The Māori , Irish , Hawaiians , and Welsh . In addition, most of the parental generation of indigenous California communities no longer spoke their ancestral language, eliminating the possibility of revitalization through use of the language in the home. Because of these issues, the MALLP was developed with the aim of assisting young professionals in these communities, and current and future parents, to become proficient speakers of their language. The main goal of

104-619: The University of California Berkeley , in part by linguist Leanne Hinton . The Oklahoma Breath of Life, Silent No More Workshop is held at the Sam Noble Oklahoma Museum of Natural History on the campus of the University of Oklahoma in Norman, Oklahoma . It has been funded by grants from the "Documenting Endangered Languages" (DEL) program, a joint project of the National Science Foundation and

117-490: The MALLP is that the apprentice attains proficiency in their language over a few years, through the creation of mini-immersion settings within each team. To create the mini-immersion settings, the teams are encouraged to go about their daily lives as normal, for a minimum number of hours per week, but to always communicate in the language that is being learned. The program incorporates techniques from several language-learning programs, including Total Physical Response . The MALLP

130-655: The interest of language restoration and revitalization. This is particularly important for the many communities that no longer have fluent speakers of their languages. They are held biannually in June at U.C. Berkeley and at the University of Oklahoma in Norman in even-numbered years, and at the Smithsonian Institution in Washington, DC in odd-numbered years. The project was initiated in the early 1990s at

143-503: The program funded 26 teams, covering the original six languages, as well as Patwin , Paiute , and Kiliwa . Onowa McIvor and Peter Jacobs from the University of Victoria , in particular, conducted a study of Mentor-Apprentice learners in BC and determined that this program is particularly effective for teaching adults. The program was designed to be easily utilized by groups without extensive linguistic training, allowing communities to use

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156-561: The program on their own. It was also designed to align with the traditional learning style of California indigenous groups, which favours a one-on-one, voluntary learning environment, as opposed to the Western model of education that emphasizes competition among students and negative consequences for poor performance (i.e. poor grades). The need for a program like the MALLP was evident due to the resource- and people-heavy nature of school-based language revitalization programs, like those used among

169-547: The ways in which indigenous tongues can be revitalized before it's too late." "She first worked with Native American groups on bilingual education , orthographic design and literature development. Hinton is a director of the Survey of California and Other Indian Languages (SCOIL), and also participates in language revitalization efforts and organizations, including the Advocates for Indigenous California Language Survival and its biennial Breath of Life conferences, for which she

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