Digital Museum of Greek Oral History: How Dialectal Speech Corpora Remain Vivid in Class

Dialectal variants are complete linguistic systems just like standard languages (cf. Kontosopoulos 1997, Ntinas & Zarkogianni 2009). The teaching of different linguistic varieties of a standard language gives pupils the possibility a) to be acquainted with the treasures of the expressive means of their mother language, b) to embody the mother language in a broader cultural and historical context and c) to discover the grammatical adjacency of the dialects and the standard language. We believe that the above can be maximally achieved if there is active interaction between pupils and language teachers/ educators during the process of language teaching. Aim of the project presented here is the design, construction and organization of the Digital Museum of Greek Oral History (DiMuGOHi) as a research and educational tool available to pupils and language teachers/ educators. Goals of the project are a) the training of primary and high school pupils in methods of language data collection and processing and, b) the collection, processing, filing and preservation of dialectal linguistic data, and, c) the design of authentic didactic/ pedagogical material to be used for the teaching of dialectal varieties in combination with the standard language. The DiMuGOHi will have the form of a digital platform in which all the materials described above will