Navajo Linguistics Workshops for linguists and teachers Navajo Language Academy, Inc. Board of Directors Our workshops offer: Chair: MaryAnn Willie, A course in a different subfield of University of Arizona The linguistics each year (syntax, Vice Chair: Theodore B. Fernald, phonology, semantics, morphology) Swarthmore College Navajo Language A course in Navajo verb structure Secretary: Carlota S. Smith, Academy, Classroom techniques for teaching University of Texas, Austin verb forms Treasurer: Margaret Speas, University of Inc. An overview of linguistics

Colloquia by scholars Massachusetts, Amherst Presentations and discussions of Lorraine Dodge, research in progress Ft. Defiance Schools Discussions of language planning Lorene B. Legah, Time for collaborative research or Diné College, Window Rock, Arizona lesson planning Ellavina Perkins, Flagstaff, Arizona Irene Silentman, Division of Diné Education,

Window Rock, Arizona Roseann Willink, The 2005 workshop will be held at Northern University of New Mexico Arizona University in Flagstaff, AZ, from July 6-26. Visit our website for more information: http://www.swarthmore.edu/SocSci/tfernal1/nla.html For more information contact us at: Navajo Language Academy, Inc.

P.O. Box 5411

Window Rock, AZ 86515

Visit us at our website: http://www.swarthmore.edu/SocSci/tfernal1/nla.html Diné Bizaad Naalkaah

About the NLA The NLA needs your help How is the NLA different from other organizations? The Navajo Language Academy, Inc. is We are non-profit so we need your help. a non-profit educational organization Contributions are tax deductible. The NLA does not duplicate the work of devoted to the scientific study and the Division of Diné Education, Diné promotion of the Navajo language. College, or the Navajo Language Teachers Association. Like these organizations, we

support Navajo language education. We have an all-volunteer staff, so 100% of However, the NLA approach is to teach your contributions go directly to our people how to do scientific research on the Members of the NLA have been programs. Navajo language, to discover the rules and working together since the early 1970s principles underlying the grammar. Diné to further the goals of Navajo language College offers undergraduate courses in scholarship through research on Navajo speaking and writing Navajo and in using grammar, the development of the Young & Morgan dictionary. pedagogical materials, and work in language planning. During the 1970s and 1980s, members of the NLA helped to organize and teach summer Navajo linguistics workshops at Hunters Point, Our work covers complicated areas of Rough Rock, Tohatchi, Kinlichee, and grammar that are beyond the scope of Navajo Community College, Tsaile. The courses offered elsewhere. Our courses name Navajo Language Academy was teach students how to apply the scientific adopted in 1997, and a non-profit method to language studies, allowing them corporation was formed in 1998. to build analytical skills, something not Workshops in recent years have been emphasized at other institutions. held in Rehoboth, NM and Blanding, UT.