Oneida - Language Immersion, Culture and Teaching

Program Overview

This intensive program enhances pre-existing Onyota'a:ka language skills, teaching classroom management, lesson planning, and education theory. Modules cover various aspects of the language, including grammar, vocabulary, and conversation. Graduates may pursue careers as Onyota'a:ka teachers, translators, language consultants, or storytellers.

Program Outline

Outline:

• Students with pre-existing Onyota'a:ka language skills enhance their vocabulary and learn good teaching practices such as classroom management, lesson planning, and education theory.
• The program is intensive, requiring a strong commitment to attending each lesson and taking advantage of practice opportunities.
• Modules include:
• Oneida Language 1-6: Pronominals, pronouns, patterns and exceptions to prefixes with verb and non stems, basic syntax, particles, addressing relations, numbers, past tense, people and animals, clans and nations, time, location, past, present and future tense, prefixes, physical, emotional and mental states, environmental descriptions, weight, nouns, and conversations using Onyota'a:ka language.
• Students may find employment in school boards, communities, government agencies, educational facilities, and more.

Careers:

• Teacher of Onyota'a:ka as a second language
• Translator
• Language consultant
• Language specialist
• Storyteller