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University of Guam receives $25K to build database of CHamoru language-learning resources

March 11, 2021
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Recognizing the need to make instructional resources about the CHamoru language and culture more accessible to the community, Inetnon Lalåhen Guåhan — the Young Men’s League of Guam — presented the University of Guam with a $25,000 grant on March 3 to develop an online open-access database for such resources.

The multi-phased project will include:

  • collecting, organizing, and digitizing CHamoru language and culture learning resources that have been produced over the last 50 years;
  • making the materials available by grade level and subject categories in an online database; and
  • working with a cadre of CHamoru language instructors to create and edit existing resources that meet the immediate needs of CHamoru language instruction in the Mariana Islands.

The University of Guam will partner with the CHamoru studies divisions of both the Guam Department of Education and the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands Public School System to gather, archive, and digitize the resources they have created for CHamoru instruction. The university will also seek to partner with other organizations, government agencies, language experts, and educators who produce language and cultural resources that can be included in the database.

“As a non-profit, we have always focused on what can we give to our people,” YMLG President Johnny P. Taitano expressed during the grant presentation. “We’re humbled to be a part of this project.”

YMLG has a long history of supporting the promotion and perpetuation of the CHamoru culture, language heritage, and identity through active engagement with the community and support of other cultural groups and organizations.

In 2019, the YMLG Committee on Cultural Preservation, headed by Carlos T. Laguå’ña and Wilfred Leon Guerrero, approached Monique Storie, dean of University Libraries at the University of Guam, and Victoria-Lola Leon Guerrero, the managing editor of the UOG Press, with an interest in creating a program that ensures resources that teach the CHamoru language are accessible to educators through a centralized source at the university. Over the last two years, they have worked together to develop this project with the goal of providing accessibility to existing language and cultural resources and preserving the rich cultural knowledge found in them.

The database, which will take about three years to develop, will allow the university and YMLG to actively promote the availability of CHamoru language and cultural resources to the local, regional, and worldwide communities.

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