What are the pros and cons of using video creation as a teaching tool for language revitalization in one of your practicum classrooms?
Video creation can be a very beneficial tool for language revitalization work. I’m Ts’msyen and Haida and have been trying to learn my Ts’msyen language, Sm’algyax, while living away from my home territory while I’m attending post secondary school. Usually I would have to attend in person classes or spend one on one time with an elder to learn my ancestral language. This just isn’t a possibility for me right now. Having videos of language speakers would be incredibly beneficial for me to hear my language more regularly to ensure I’m getting pronunciations correct. There are currently some online resources but not many easily accessible videos. So a big pro would be that it increases accessibility while I live in an urban setting.
A con would be that videos take a lot of bandwidth and you have to have good internet to be able to upload and watch videos. A lot of rural communities (especially reserves) don’t have access to high speed internet and are working with very low bandwidths and speeds so this would not be an accessible option for that scenario.
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