A workshop on digital technologies in Austronesian language documentation and e-learning

D. Victoria Rau, National Chung Cheng University, Hui-Huan Ann Chang, National Chin-Yi University of Technology, Taiwan Meng-Chien Yang, Providence University, Taiwan

This workshop presents tools used in language documentation and e-learning, using as examples. Part One introduces a model of Yami language documentation, integrating different digital technologies such as ELAN, Toolbox, Lexique Pro, SIL FLEX, and Protégé, to construct a Yami database for a sociogrammar. The sociogrammar is a variable description, a method of documenting and conserving an endangered language, and a useful pedagogical grammar with a focus on language use suitable for Yami language teachers’ training (Chang 2017).

The Yami Archiving Team has made use of digital technologies to build Yami corpora,1 The corpora have served as the basis for examining Yami sociolinguistic variation (Rau & Chang 2006; Rau, Chang, & Dong 2009; Rau, Wang, & Chang 2012; Chang & Rau 2016; Chang & Rau 2017; Chang 2017), writing reference grammars (Rau & Dong 2016, forthcoming), developing language teaching materials (Chang, Rau, & Dong 2014, 2015a, 2015b, 2015c), and building ontologies (Rau, Yang, Chang, & Dong 2009; Rau & Yang 2009; Chang 2014).

These digital technologies have also been successfully applied to the teaching of Austronesian languages and linguistics courses. Part Two introduces a method to integrate the same tools used for language documentation into a massive open online course, entitled “Prefabricated Learning in Indonesian.”2 The students were taught to use (1) ELAN to make their own videos describing the frog story texts produced by Indonesian speakers, and (2) Lexique Pro to make their own online Indonesian dictionaries.

In Part Three, we will introduce a method used to incorporate technologies into a digital humanities Indonesian as a second language course, entitled “Indonesian Innovative

1 The Yami archiving team has produced the following free open-access websites : http://yamiproject.cs.pu.edu.tw/yami/, http://yamobow.cs.pu.edu.tw/, http://yamionto.cs.pu.edu.tw, http://www.ccunix.ccu.edu.tw/~lngrau/TAO_Teaching_Web/taoteaching.html, http://www.ccunix.ccu.edu.tw/~lngrau/TAOTEACHINGEVENT/categories/index.htm, and http://www.ccunix.ccu.edu.tw/~lngrau/Yami%20Bible%20Web/0809-mix.html. 2 https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLQn99bzkJv9xAyiAWH4uFBiKHmWm469dL Learning.”3 We will demonstrate how to create online teaching materials4 and teach the learners to use APP inventor 2 to design their own Indonesian Learning APPs, including “Indonesian Voice Toddler Cards app,” “Indonesian-English-Chinese translation app,” and ‘Chung Cheng University Virtual Campus Tour in Indonesian app.”

Overall, this workshop will not only offer an example of best practices for digital archiving and materials development, it will also inspire the participants to create their own projects using digital technologies.

Keywords: digital technologies, language documentation, e-learning, Austronesian languages, sociogrammar References Chang, H.-H. (2017). Case Studies on Yami Sociolinguistic Variation. Ph.D. dissertation. Chiayi: Institute of Linguistics, National Chung Cheng University. Chang, H.-H. (2014). Categorization and conceptualization of body parts in Yami. Providence Forum: Language and Humanities, 8 (1), 183-207. Providence University, Taiwan. Chang, H.-H & Rau, V. (2011). Word order variation in Yami. Paper presented at the NWAV Asia-Pacific. University of Delhi, India. 2/23-26/2011. Chang, H.-H. & Rau, V. (2017). A corpus-based analysis of word order variation in Yami relative clause construction. Asia-Pacific Language Variation, 3(1), 95-123. Chang, H.-H., Rau, V., & Dong, M.-N. (2014). Language digital documentation in Taiwan: Using Lexique Pro to document a Yami audiovisual pedagogical material. Paper presented at The 4th Conference on Heritage Maintenance for Endangered Languages in Yunnan, China, 10/20-22/2014. Yuxi Normal University, Yuxi City, Yunnan, China. Chang, H.-H., Rau, V., & Dong, M.-N. (2015a). Constructing high quality audio learning materials using Lexique Pro. Electronic poster presented at the ICLDC 4, 2/26-3/1/2015. University of Hawaii at Manoa. Chang, H.-H., Rau, V., & Dong, M.-N. (2015b). Constructing a Yami online audiovisual dictionary. Paper presented at 13-ICAL, 7/18-23/ 2015. , Taipei, Taiwan. Chang, H.-H., Rau, V., & Dong, M.-N. (2015c). Constructing an audiovisual morpheme-by-morpheme database: a case of Yami. The 5th Conference on

3 This course has been documented in the following link: http://icdh.dlll.nccu.edu.tw/handle/getcdb/352472. A MOOC free course entitled “An Indonesian Travel Frog CALLed” is also available online: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLQn99bzkJv9yDZbCZaQE4Sj23guoQ9AVu. 4 http://www.ccunix.ccu.edu.tw/~lngrau/Indonesian%20Travel%20Frog%20CALLed-0226/Home.html Heritage Maintenance for Endangered Languages in Yunnan, China, 10/24- 26/2015. Yuxi Normal University, Yuxi City, Yunnan, China. Rau, D. V. & Chang, A. H.-H. (2006). Phonological variation and sound change in Yami on . In H. Y. Chang, L. M. Huang, & D.-A. Ho (Eds.), Streams converging into an ocean: Festschrift in honor of Professor Paul-Jen-kuei Li on his 70th birthday (pp. 461-488). Language and Linguistics Monograph Series Number W-5, Taipei: Institute of Linguistics, Academia Sinica. Rau, D. V. & Chang, A. H.-H. (2015). Evaluative morphology: Yami. In N. Grandi and L. Kortvelyessy (Eds.), Edinburgh handbook of evaluative morphology (pp. 389- 390). Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press. Rau, D. V., Chang, H.-H. A., & Dong, M-N. (2009). A tale of two diphthongs in an indigenous minority language. In J. Stanford and D. Preston (Eds), Variation in indigenous minority languages (pp. 259-280). Amsterdam: John Benjamins. Rau, D. V., Wang, C.-C., & Chang, H.-H. A. (2012). Investigating motion events in Austronesian languages. Oceanic linguistics, 51(1), 1-17. Rau, D. V., & Yang, M.-C. (2009). Digital transmission of language and culture. In M. Florey (Ed.), Language endangerment and maintenance in the Austronesian region (pp. 207-224). Oxford University Press.