Chamorro Hath Ten Thousand Several Doors
People take different approaches the language revitalization and
preservation. You can often divide these interventions into either which
segment of society they are focusing on, and whether their efforts deal with
past, present or future forms of the language. For instance, when designing a
language curriculum, which audience are you focusing the structure of your
curriculum to satisfy or to appeal to? This is one thing that I have regularly
been critical of in terms of how curriculum or language learning materials are
created on Guam. As most people creating the curriculum are native speakers for
whom Chamorro is their first language, they may struggle in understanding what
it is like to learn Chamorro as a second language. Their interests in the
language will be very different than someone who does not speak it but wants to
learn. Their feel of the language will be drastically different than someone
who is very unfamiliar with it. What will appeal to them or make them happy is
not …