Assessing Language Revitalization: Methods and Priorities

Abstract

With the rapid growth of interest in language revitalization and the development of hundreds of programs around the world, there is now a recognized need for ways to assess progress and identify problems. The primary objectives of this review are to outline the form that assessments of oral proficiency can take and to illustrate ways in which revitalization programs can begin to monitor their progress, by means of a combination of holistic appraisals of fluency and techniques that target individual features of language.