Ax toowú át wudikeen, my spirit soars: Tlingit direct acquisition and co-learning pilot project

Johnson provides a detailed description of how a well-defined initial language strategy can be developed to kick-off community language revitalization. They describe the direct-acquisition teaching model, cohort-style learning, curriculum development, and a Tlingit pilot project. Johnson raises up community language educators by providing concrete, evidence-based strategies for developing grassroots Indigenous language programs. They explain how to adapt a Nsylixcn curriculum to Tlingit (unrelated languages), and how to create an immersion environment when teachers and learners start with very low language capacity.

Johnson, M. K. (2016). Ax toowú át wudikeen, my spirit soars: Tlingit direct acquisition and co-learning pilot project. Language Documentation and Conservation, 10, 306-336.