6 | Chqeta'maj le qach'ab'al K'iche'! is an open, online course for K'iche' - a Mayan language from the highlands of Guatemala spoken by more than a million people today. It is the most widely-spoken indigenous language of Guatemala. Using lessons created by Mareike Sattler, (Vanderbilt University) we have been creating a course for Maya K'iche' that incorporates audiovisual materials. Because of the lack of interactive resources, we have created videos and audio files that accompany the lessons and complement grammatical explanations. These videos have been created by Ignacio Carvajal and Juan Manuel Tahay and revolve around K'iche' language concepts and everyday aspects of life in Nahualá, a K'iche'-speaking town in the department of Sololá in Guatemala. The course itself is based upon the variant of K'iche' spoken in that town. The materials have been utilized in lessons in the United States and México and are currently in use in the K'iche' course being instructed at the Lozano Long Institute of Latin American Studies. Our main goals have been to make available resources through which the main grammatical forms of K'iche' can be accessible to students ranging from beginner to intermediate level as well as to provide materials for K'iche' instructors. So that these materials be available to students in the United States and Guatemala (and other parts of Latin America), the lessons are available in English as well as in Spanish. These lessons were created in a wordpress platform - facilitated by Nathalie Steinfeld-Childre, COERLL web developer. The current stage of the course focuses on beginner and intermediate students. The videos and texts that have been created are also available in a youtube channel entitled COERLL K'iche'. This channel is another valuable resource as culturally-relevant material is availabe to instructors and students as well as any member of the community - K'iche' speaker or otherwise. The videos available in that channel have exceeded a combined 75,000 views. A next stage of the project will focus on the creation of culturally-relevant materials that will be pedagogically useful for advanced language students as well as researchers or anybody interested in the language or Mayan culture at large. Chqeta'maj le qach'ab'al K'iche'! is an open, online course for K'iche' - a Mayan language from the highlands of Guatemala spoken by more than a million people today. It is the most widely-spoken indigenous language of Guatemala. Using lessons created by Mareike Sattler, (Vanderbilt University) we have been creating a course for Maya K'iche' that incorporates audiovisual materials. Because of the lack of interactive resources, we have created videos and audio files that accompany the lessons and complement grammatical explanations. These videos have been created by Ignacio Carvajal and Juan Manuel Tahay and revolve around K'iche' language concepts and everyday aspects of life in Nahualá, a K'iche'-speaking town in the department of Sololá in Guatemala. The course itself is based upon the variant of K'iche' spoken in that town. The materials have been utilized in lessons in the United States and México and are currently in use in the K'iche' course being instructed at the Lozano Long Institute of Latin American Studies. Our main goals have been to make available resources through which the main grammatical forms of K'iche' can be accessible to students ranging from beginner to intermediate level as well as to provide materials for K'iche' instructors. So that these materials be available to students in the United States and Guatemala (and other parts of Latin America), the lessons are available in English as well as in Spanish. These lessons were created in a wordpress platform - facilitated by Nathalie Steinfeld-Childre, COERLL web developer. The current stage of the course focuses on beginner and intermediate students. The videos and texts that have been created are also available in a youtube channel entitled COERLL K'iche'. This channel is another valuable resource as culturally-relevant material is availabe to instructors and students as well as any member of the community - K'iche' speaker or otherwise. The videos available in that channel have exceeded a combined 75,000 views. A next stage of the project will focus on the creation of culturally-relevant materials that will be pedagogically useful for advanced language students as well as researchers or anybody interested in the language or Mayan culture at large. |
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