List of Workshops (Tentative)

Below is a tentative list of workshops planned for CoLang 2024, along with their basic descriptions. Check back for updates as we add to these descriptions. 

Basics

• Intro to linguistics: essential concepts of linguistic description and analysis

• Orthography: collaboratively designing a writing system

• Lexicography: principles and methods of dictionary creation and intro to software for making a dictionary

• Transcription: theory, methods, and practice of transcribing recorded data

• Grant writing: from idea to concrete proposal; preplanning and writing

Technology

• Audio: basic and advanced techniques in audio recording and processing

• Video: basic and advanced techniques in video recording and processing

• FLEx: use of FLEx software for lexicography and text analysis

• ELAN: use of ELAN software for audio-visual annotation

• Data management and archiving: managing data through metadata, workflow, processing, corpus creation and mobilization; intro to current software

• Principles of database design: design and use of a database management system

Community Language Work

• Language reclamation: language revitalization and decolonization; broadening native participation in linguistic science

• Life in communities: ethical, practical, and interpersonal aspects of research

• Blurring the lines: skills for collaborative community-based research

• Language activism: outreach skills for the promotion of linguistic diversity

• Survey methods: design of sociolinguistic and language vitality surveys

• Community archiving: developing a community-centered archive

Language Pedagogy

• Teaching indigenous languages: designing materials for teaching language learners’ grammar

• Teaching pronunciation: designing materials for teaching language learners’ pronunciation

• Teaching methods for indigenous languages: methods used for teaching indigenous languages indigenous languages

• Teaching materials for indigenous languages: developing curricula and assessment materials for teaching Indigenous languages

Thematic workshops (CoLang 2024)

• Leveraging new technology: training in the latest developments in using code and programming to transcribe and analyze language data

• Utilizing creative technologies to expand domains of language learning and use: advanced tools and skills for making creative and innovative multimedia for language learning, including filmmaking and graphic novels

• Planning for a language program: leveraging community resources and engaging partners at any/all levels towards for developing community-based language programs

• Utilizing legacy materials to restore traditional knowledge: advanced skills with interpreting legacy materials and reconstructing traditional knowledge systems