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- Mandarin Chinese I | 中文课程1
- Part one of an online textbook for learning Mandarin Chinese.
- Format: book (multiple pages)
- Lumbee English
- In Teaching about North Carolina American Indians, page 3.1
- Introduction Linguist Walt Wolfram, a professor at North Carolina State University says, “The Lumbee English dialect bears the imprint of the early colonization by the English, Highland Scots, and Scots-Irish. Moreover, Lumbee American Indians’...
- Format: lesson plan (grade 4 and 8 English Language Arts and Social Studies)
- By Gazelia Carter.
- Bridging Spanish language barriers in Southern schools
- These articles provide background on Latino immigrants in North Carolina, administrative challenges in binational education, and strategies through which teachers can build on what Latino students bring to their classrooms to create a learning environment that meets the needs of all students.
- Format: series (multiple pages)
- Why study a foreign language?
- Foreign language study enhances academic skills, raises SAT scores, and prepares students for careers.
- By Bernadette Morris.
- Cherokee language recordings
- In Teaching about North Carolina American Indians, page 4.4
- While many North Carolina students have heard languages from some parts of the world spoken in the context of their daily lives – Spanish, French, or Chinese, for example – they may not have heard American Indian languages and, as a result, do not know...
- Format: bibliography/teacher's guide
- By Myrtle Driver, Kevin Norris, and Kathryn Walbert.
- Montagnards
- In Rice farming and rural life in Vietnam, page 13
- The region around Mai Chau is home to ethnic minorities sometimes known in Vietnam as “hill tribes” or Montagnards (“mountain people”). In this part of northern Vietnam, the highland minority groups are mostly speakers of Tai languages,...
- By Lorraine Aragon.
- A new language
- In French colonization and Vietnam wars, page 4
- Once it became a French “protectorate” with puppet emperors, Vietnamese upper class leaders fiercely debated the relative merits of Chinese Confucian versus Western European knowledge and power. By the 1920s, though, they decided to adopt
- By Lorraine Aragon.
- Using bilingual dictionaries
- This lesson focuses on learning to use a bilingual dictionary while acquiring first and second language vocabulary about language and grammar.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 6–8 Second Languages)
- By Carolyn Zuttel.
- Greeting your limited English proficient students in their own language
- Even a simple "Hello" or "How are you today?" can help to integrate a student into a new environment. This article offers strategies and tools for teachers wishing to learn a few words of a new language.
- By Bobby Hobgood.
- An ancient Hindu kingdom
- In East from India: Cambodia and Southern Vietnam, page 1
- This damaged brick and stone Cham tower stands overgrown by vegetation in a rural area south of Hai An, Vietnam. Tall arched forms are characteristic of these monuments built by ethnic Chams between the seventh and twelfth century
- By Lorraine Aragon.
- Map of linguistic groups in Nigeria
- Format: image/map
- Puppeteer holds shadow puppets between flame and screen as another man watches
- A puppet master holds two shadow puppets between a lantern flame and a screen as another man, possibly his assistant, watches from behind the screen. Traditionally, Indonesian audiences sit in front of the screen and only see the dark shadows of the colorfully...
- Format: image/photograph
- Climbing the school ladder: A challenging task for immigrant Latino students
- In Bridging Spanish language barriers in Southern schools, page 1.1
- Teachers play a critical role when helping immigrant children adjust to a new school life. Because immigrants' backgrounds and experiences are so diverse, it is important for teachers no to make assumptions and to get to know individual children.
- By Magda Corredor.
- Language change in North Carolina's cities
- In this activity, students view a video about the changing dialects of North Carolina's urban areas and then respond to a series of questions.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 8 Social Studies)
- By Hannah Askin.
- Cham tower overgrown by vegetation south of Hai An
- A damaged brick and stone Cham tower stands overgrown by vegetation in a rural area south of Hai An. Tall arched forms are characteristic of these monuments built by ethnic Chams between the seventh and twelfth century A.D. Maritime trade between India and...
- Format: image/photograph
- Eighth century Cham stone statue of Hindu god Ganesha at Danang Museum
- This stone statue of the Hindu god Ganesha, located at the Danang Museum, was carved by Chams during the eighth century. The statue portrays Ganesha standing erect with his elephant head and human body. Barefoot but dressed in a fine draped tunic, Ganesha...
- Format: image/photograph
- Outside Buddhist temple, firecracker preparations
- Part of a ten day vegetarian festival. In the Buddhist temple courtyard, boys are putting firecrackers onto long bamboo poles. Later, during a different part of the festival, these strings of firecrackers will be detonated, creating a deafening noise, lots...
- Format: audio
- Cherokee syllabary
- The Cherokee language is written in a syllabary invented by Sequoyah, also known as George Guess, in 1819. Each symbol represents a syllable rather than a single phoneme as in English. There are far too many syllables in English (tens of thousands) for an...
- Format: image/chart
- African American English
- In this activity, students learn about the history of African American English and the meaning of dialect and linguistic patterns. Students watch a video about African American English and analyze the dialect's linguistic patterns.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 8 Social Studies)
- By Hannah Askin.
- Language families
- In Intrigue of the Past, page 4.7
- Students will identify and locate the three language families of contact period North Carolina and calculate the physical area covered by each language family.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 4 and 8 Mathematics and Social Studies)
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