NMC2009: Good! ¡ Bien! ¡Ütz! - Maya Language Learning from Guatemala to Tulane

Good! ¡Bien! ¡Ütz!Maya Language Learning

from Guatemala to TulaneMarie Carianna Derek Toten

OverviewU.S. Department of EducationTitle 6, National Resource Center

Origins

Promote the study of Less Commonly

Taught Languages ofLatin America

Originsgrants awarded2003 & 2005

Spoken in the Guatemalan highlands,

Lake Atitlan region

Kaqchikel Maya

Since the 1980s: six-week Kaqchikel Maya language and cultureimmersion course

Dr. Judie MaxwellTulane Linguist &

Cultural Anthropologist

Oxlajuj Aj

Q’anil• Self-paced, Flash-based language-learning

environment to teach Kaqchikel Maya

• Produce in Guatemalawith native Kaqchikelspeakers

• Design for duallanguage instruction:English and Spanish

Content configured for CD-ROM and online deliveryhttp://ekaqchikel.tulane.edu (site active in late July 2009)

Production• Production trips to Guatemala each summer

• Post-production & application design in spring & fall

• Produce FOUR modules• TWO complete• ONE “in the can”• Complete project by

2011

FOUR person production team• TWO pedagogists• Fluent in Spanish• Work with teachers• Plan and script content

• TWO videographers• Production & staging

logistics• Video/audio post-

production

Crew

• Edit two-camera, HD footage using Final Cut• Compress final video as Flash FLV files• Bring two teachers to NOLA for additional audio

Post-Production

• Design Flash-based interface, and incorporate video, audio & images

• Captionate for Kaqchikel sub-titles

Contact

Marie Cariannamcarian@tulane.edu

Derek Totenderek@tulane.edu