Academic Partnership Building in Indigenous Education Through Social Media and Digital Contents in Bangladesh

Abstract

Language is, through both utterance and understanding, an inevitable element of human existence. In addition to being substantially endangered, indigenous languages are also digitally endangered. The digital divide that causes this danger infringes most of the indigenous community's linguistic rights. This paper will illustrate, along with this detailed background, the extent to which the indigenous communities can develop academic partnerships by digitising educational content and using Social Media. From the observation and discussion with the community members, some feasible suggestions came up that demonstrated the academic partnership as a way language documentation and teaching in MTB-MLE. The aspects of indigenous language education and connection of social media based content making is another solution tool in present days in which this paper also narrates the possibility.