The Aboriginal Languages and Literacy Institute (ALLI) aims to increase awareness of endangered languages and to provide concrete expertise and skills to address community needs.
ALLI is a collaborative initiative of:
- UBC First Nations Languages
- UBC Language and Literacy Education
- UBC First Nations & Indigenous Studies
ALLI’s exciting summer 2006 program was a productive month of courses and activities. Researchers, educators, community members and other interested parties all participated. They were given powerful tools to document, understand, and spread aboriginal languages with the ultimate goal of ensuring that these languages endure as part of a linguistic and cultural heritage for generations to come.
Four courses were offered for credit through ALLI, spanning four departments in the Faculties of Education and Arts. Exciting extracurricular programming, open to the public, supported ALLI’s goals:
A theatre workshop allowed a group of Aboriginal participants to create an interactive piece based on the challenges of reclamation and revitalization of their linguistic heritage.
A film festival presented an international, national, and local perspectives on endangered languages.
A panel allowed four presenters to come together with the audience to discuss Indigenous Orality and Storytelling for Education.
A day-long symposium on the topic of Language Revitalization was good.
ALLI had an impact on all the participants, and work done during the course of the program continues to reach different people.
