Photograph by Maureen Kobierowski, ASU Humanities Lab.
Piipaash Storybook Teaching Guide
Lab: Language Emergency, Spring 2022
Instructors: Danko Sipka, Tyler Peterson, Joseph Buenker
Type: Print Media
Tags: Teaching and Education, Language, Storytelling, Literature
Team: Shahzadi Laibah Burq, Hannah Lent, Addison Wagner
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About the outcome
For our project, we are creating a teaching guide for a Piipaash language story book. This guide will include lesson plans, teaching materials and activity worksheets based on the current research from the field of applied linguistics: second language acquisition, early childhood education, methods of teaching bi/multilingual students, and language assessment. The project will help teachers and students to develop linguistic and cultural understanding of Piipaash language in an effective and efficient manner. Our research involves work in multiple disciplines of Humanities: i.e., Linguistics (phonetics, phonology, syntax, morphology), Applied Linguistics (language learning and teaching, curriculum and lesson designing, multilingualism, language teachers education), Early Childhood Education, Digital Humanities, and Literature.
About the team
My name is Shahzadi Laibah Burq and I am a multilingual speaker of Urdu, English, Persian/Dari, Pashto, Hindi and Punjabi. I am currently pursuing a Ph.D. in Applied Linguistics at Arizona State University. My research interests include L2 pedagogy, language planning and policy in higher education, and cognitive linguistics. I have four years of experience teaching ESL at BUITEMS, University in Pakistan. At present I am teaching English Composition 101, and ENG 102 at ASU as a Graduate Teaching Assistant.
I am Hannah Lent and I'm from California where I grew up on my tribal homelands fully immersed in my cultures, Chumash and Paiute. This is where I attended community college and attained my associates degree in recreation management. I then transferred to ASU where I will be graduating this year with a Bachelor's degree in American Indian Studies. I've spent a multitude of years working with my tribal community in language revitalization and cultural preservation, working both with education and tribal government.
Hello, my name is Addison Wagner. I'm a first year student at ASU’s W.P Carey School of business. I am a Washington native currently living in AZ while I pursue my education. Along with my major I am also minoring in American Indian studies with plans to double major in tribal government