Hi forum! I just wanted to offer my expertise and services in the area of online curriculum design for Indigenous and low-resourced languages. I’m an applied linguist and language curriculum designer with a background in documentary linguistics, minoritized language issues, and teaching. I’ve been with Duolingo for over five years now and facilitated the design of multiple less-commonly-taught languages, like Zulu, Yiddish, and Haitian Creole.
If you’re curious about things like best practices for online language teaching, how to teach skills like pronunciation or speaking, how to balance implicit and explicit instruction, or how to create a curriculum to break down typological concepts like agglutination not commonly found in “major world language” classrooms, etc., please get in touch! I’m available for shorter or potentially longer collaborations; I have time to help with this and really love doing this work. Happy to answer questions in this forum thread as well.