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Kia kite i ētahi pukapuka e pā ana ki te whakaora reo:

Whakauru te kīanga language revival i roto i te pouaka "subject keywords". Ko language attrition tētahi atu kīanga pai.

Ki te pirangi koe ki te panui i ētahi pukapuka e pā ana ki te te whakora reo i roto i te akomanga, whakauru ngā kīanga native language and education , linguistic minorities education, rānei.

Kei konei te whakarārangi.

Ko Education Research Complete te pātaka rakahau (database) pai mo tēnei wahanga. Pāwhiri i a Education Research Complete ki raro, ā, whakauru tētahi o ēnei kīanga:

language maintenance

language revival

"language revitalization or language revitalisation"

UNESCO has a database of languages in danger. You can search by country, language or number of speakers and see how endangered the langauge is. There is also a register of good practices, a methodogy for assessing language vitality and endangerment, a bibliography and links to other websites.

AUSTRALIA - The National Indigenous Languages Survey report from 2005, can be found full-text here.

To find articles on a particular language, search in Education Research Complete and ERIC and Sociological Abstracts (see below) , using the following terms:

"language planning or language policy" and the name of the language or country
e.g. "language planning or language policy" and catalan

If you have chosen a language on which little has been written, search on the name of the language or country and the word language, e.g.:

Namibia and language
or
nama and language

Note: You can search both ERIC and Education Research Complete at once by clicking on 'choose databases' once you're in one database.

Try a subject begins with search using:

• Language planning
• Language policy

Catalogue

then you can scroll down and find the region you've chosen.

A couple of useful looking books are:

• Langauge planning and policy in Asia covers Japan, Nepal, Taiwan and Chinese characters
• Language planning and policy in the Pacific includes Fiji, the Philippines and Vanuatu

Not sure how to design your questionnaire? The Library has books to help.

Search using questionnaires social surveys methodology in the catalogue:

This book looks good: Constructing Effective Questionnaires

Remember to 'pre-test' your questionnaire - try it out on a friend or family member before you start with your language community.