2023 Bak̕wa̱mk̓ala Summer Language Intensive
The WAYK team is excited to spend the summer in Port Hardy, B.C at the Treehouse with the Bak̕wa̱mk̓ala Language Immersion Program for a Summer Language Intensive in 2023. Over… Read more »
Posts Tagged: Language Teaching
c̓išaaʔatḥ First In-Person Visit
The WAYK team will finally have a chance to have our first in-person visit with the c̓išaaʔatḥ team in Port Alberni, BC. After working online and from a distance for… Read more »
North Vancouver ACTFL OPI Workshop
The Where Are Your keys team will be back in North Vancouver to join in with both Sḵwx̱wú7mesh and hən̓q̓əmin̓əm̓ learners and teachers in an ACTFL Oral Proficiency Interview (OPI)… Read more »
Tsleil-Waututh Nation and Sníchim Foundation Spring Session
The WAYK team will return to Tsleil-Waututh Nation in North Vancouver, BC for a few weeks this spring to partner with the TWN language department and the Sníchim Foundation. We… Read more »
TWN Spring Session at the Yellow House
The WAYK team returns to Tsleil-Waututh Nation in North Vancouver, BC in the fall of 2018 to partner with the TWN language department and Sníchim Foundation at the Yellow House… Read more »
Technique: Lie to Me
Imagine you are doing a lesson that might only be true for some people in your group. For example, if you are leading a lesson on brothers and sisters, and… Read more »
Blending WAYK and Tandem Language Learning
This post explores how blending Where Are Your Keys techniques into a tandem language learning model could support and improve learning. Due to the number of WAYK Techniques I will… Read more »
What I’ve Been Up To Since the WAYK Summer Internship
Here’s Mary Leighton’s update from the winter of 2017, six months after her summer with WAYK on St. Paul Island, Alaska. Thanks for the update, Mary! The summer internship seems… Read more »
Relaxing in Immersion
Picture this: I grab a beautiful blue egg shell, a white feather, and two model birds, and join my group at a table in the back room for immersion time…. Read more »
Master Teachers and Techniques
Have you ever watched a master teacher at work? As a student teacher walking into a master teacher’s classroom for the first time, it is easy to have the misconception… Read more »
Introducing the WAYKcast!
We are happy to share the first episode of season one of the WAYKcast, a new podcast from WAYK about language revitalization, language learning, and Where Are Your Keys. In… Read more »
Learning a Language While “Low on Spoons”
If you read many of the WAYK blog posts, you may notice that language learning is a dynamic process that includes dozens of learning techniques, process tools, and juggling short-term… Read more »
WAYK and Community Organizing
They say that for the person with a hammer, every problem looks like a nail. A few years ago I was formally introduced to community organizing, and yes, now I… Read more »
Layering WAYK with Other Immersion Methods
I was first acquainted with WAYK in 2015, attending a Lingít language circle put on at the University of Alaska Anchorage. I really liked the technique as a way to… Read more »
Guest Post: Teaching Students How to Hunt
As I explained the concept and procedure of a “Bucket Brigade” to twenty-four slightly sleepy sophomores, I became nervous. They seemed nervous, lost, anxious. What if this lesson, which would… Read more »
Guest Post: MFLA Spring Outreach 2015
In addition to fall and spring conferences, every year, the Maryland Foreign Language Association travels to a different region of the state, to bring professional development directly the… Read more »
Surprise, you’re a teacher.
Something that has made the WAYK Summer Intensive special for me is the role of teaching. Before WAYK, I had a lot of misconceptions regarding what it is to teach…. Read more »
VIDEO: Irish Language (Gaeilge) 1
[vimeo=19896067] For anyone who has either been to a WAYK workshop, language night, or mastered the WAYK tutorial, you can copy-cat along with this video and learn some Irish language,… Read more »