Arapaho Language Project

The Arapaho Language Project is a language learning website created by the University of Colorado Boulder students and faculty in 2009. With time, the website's content and design became outdated and failed to respond to the growing needs of the Arapaho community. The project aimed to update the website's user experience and create additional language learning content. During this project, I conducted usability testing of the website with the adult learners and teachers of the Arapaho language to understand friction points. In addition, I surveyed all online learning resources for Algonquian languages to know how other communities approached teaching their language online. As a part of that task, I described language ideologies that frequent online learning materials. The redesigned Arapaho Language Project went live in March 2015, featuring added grammar lessons and more contextualized examples of speaking.