Description
A qualitative research with multiple methods, which investigates the phenomena of language shift and sustainment it of one Diné family. A Diné father was interviewed. The mother tongue should still be use at home however, the Navajo language is taught at school. I spent eighty plus hours interviewing the Diné father. I spent countless hours of observing Shizhe’é and the interview was all done in Diné Bizaad. Shizhe’é explained the challenges and obstacles of maintaining the mother tongue.
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Title
- Shizhe’é Eí Diné Bizaad Bisąądéébohoołąą’: My Diné Father Is My Hero Because He Taught Me How To Speak My Mother Tongue
Contributors
- Bia, Sunshine Sallie (Author)
- Romero-Little, Eunice (Thesis advisor)
- Blasingame, James (Thesis advisor)
- Quintero, Henry (Committee member)
- Arizona State University (Publisher)
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2023
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Partial requirement for: Ph.D., Arizona State University, 2023
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Field of study: English