Evidence-Based Research in Language Program Assessment

Contributors

Introduction

1. A Framework for Research in SIL

Measuring Community Participation and Ownership in Language Development Programs

1. Introduction
2. A Framework for Community Participation and Ownership
3. Key Factors for Measuring Community Participation and Ownership
4. Developing CPO Assessment Tool
5. Observations from early testing of Assessment Tool (still to be tested/affirmed)
6. Discussion Benefits and Usages of the Assessment Tool
7. References

Measuring Community Interest in Bible Translation: Taste of Translation Workshops in Indonesia

1. Introduction
2. Taste of Translation workshop design
3. Piloting Taste of Translation workshops as part of the Indonesian Bible translation movement
4. Impact of ToT workshops (down the road)
5. Weaknesses and challenges
6. Conclusion
7. References
8. Coconut Tree Metaphor (Appendix 1)
9. Language use in public domain (Appendix 2)
10. Ten steps of translation and four principles in translation process (Appendix 3)
11. Example results from five participatory tools (Appendix 4)

Diaspora Language Study: Developing methods for large-scale language program assessment in diaspora situations

1. Introduction
2. Literature Review
3. Methodology
4. Summary of DLS 2023 Implementation
5. Conclusion
6. References

Introducing REBaR: A Community of Practice for Reinforcing Research at Scale

1. The problem of scale meets the solution of data science
2. The basic mindset of large-scale research
3. The basic skill set of large-scale research
4. A platform for sharing resources and knowledge
5. A protocol for accessing restricted resources
6. Conclusion
7. References

Standardized Collection of Artistic Communication Data: Local Song Genres

1. Intro
2. Literature Review
3. Vision for the Song Genre Dataset
4. Methods: what we did
5. Products of the research
6. Examples of potential findings
7. Lessons learned
8. Conclusion
9. Link
10. References

Communicability Spectrum Analysis for Bible Translations

1. Rationale for research
2. Theoretical presuppositions
3. The Communicability Spectrum Tool (CST)
4. Conclusion
5. References

Collaborative Data Collection: a ‘rapid’ means of data collection via offsite events with local experts and mother tongue speakers

1. Introduction
2. Global Voice Collaborative Data Gathering Workshops
3. The Vanuatu Global Voice Collaborative Data Gathering Event
4. Quality of the Data
5. Procedure for Planning Collaborative Data Collection (CDC) events
6. Advantages and Disadvantages of Collaborative Data Collection (CDC)
7. Conclusion
8. References

The New Testament and Genesis in Omi-ti: A Case Study in Scripture Engagement

1. Introduction
2. The present study
3. Methodology
4. Findings of the study
5. Answers to research questions
6. Conclusions
7. Recommendations
8. References
9. Some prior findings on Omi reading ability among church leaders (Appendix A)
10. Exposure to Scripture among two language communities in Cameroon (Appendix B)
11. Two Bible translation programs for communities exhibiting deferred vernacular production (Appendix C)

Observation-Based Research of Vernacular Scripture Use: the Picture in Sulawesi

Using Outcome Harvesting as a Tool for Evidence-Based Decision-Making in Language Programs

1. Introduction
2. Background Theory
3. Case Studies - Outcome Harvesting in Language Programs
4. Conclusions
5. References
6. Additional material for case studies (Appendix 1)
7. Acknowledgements (Appendix 2)

Using Outcome Harvesting with a mixed methods approach for Scripture engagement research: A case study from a mid-stream assessment of the WT Bible translation project

1. Introduction
2. Results
3. Feasibility
4. Impacts of the research
5. Summary and conclusions
6. References

Studying Intergenerational Transmission In-depth in Families: the Case of the Sso Language Community (Cameroon)

1. Introduction
2. Language Vitality, transmission of heritage languages and the family
3. About Sso
4. Research Questions
5. Methodology
6. Results
7. Summary
8. References

Quantitative tools for measuring language dominance: A literature review

1. Introduction
2. Language dominance
3. Instruments
4. Adapting an instrument
5. Adapting the Bilingual Language Profile for Cameroon
6. Summary and conclusions
7. References

A Characterization of Language Ecology in Nepal: A Case Study in Using Census Data

1. Introduction
2. Background
3. Methodology
4. Results
5. Discussion
6. Conclusion
7. References
8. Appendix