Two Contexts for Training Teachers of Native Languages!

This paper reports on our experience in Native language teacher trainingin two con-texts in British Columbia: one a university-sponsored course offered in a northern community, and one a workshop-based inservice course offered in the Fraser Val-ley. Work done with the students is des-cribed, excerpts of student work are presented and suggestions about Native lan-guage teacher training in Canada are made. In March 1982, TESL-Canada organized a symposium entitled "Lan-guage Development in Native Education. " Some of the symposium par-ticipants were English-speaking teachers of Native2 students and others were teachers of Native languages; all were concerned generally with the linguistic development of Native students and with techniques, curricul