Survey Methods
Keren Rice
Mary Linn
https://web.archive.org/web/20150424032216/https://idrh.ku.edu/colang-workshops
Time: 8:30am – 10:00am
Week 2: 25 - 28 June 2012
Meeting Location: 302 Watson
Library Planning is an essential part of language revitalization. Surveys, sometimes required by funding sources, are a tool for planning. Far beyond recording language status, surveys help us understand language use and attitudes that are too often pitfalls in revitalization efforts. In this workshop, we will discuss questions such as, what can we learn from a survey? How can surveys be used in revitalization? What different kinds of surveys are there? What kinds of questions should we ask? Who and how should it be given? What do we do with the results? The leaders will use Handbook 3: Conducting a Language Survey (from Awakening Our Languages: ILI Handbook Series) as a starting point for classroom discussions. Participants will be asked to work in groups to develop survey questions and give short surveys to each other to practice reading and presenting results. The goal is for participants to leave with a creative toolset for using surveys in their own communities or language programs.
Resources
Surveys
Survey Reports