NWT RESEARCH DATABASE

Principal Investigator: Nichol, Cynthia
Licensed Year(s): 2009
Summary: The goal of this research is to provide a framework for how educators and community members might use Gwich’in stories for revitalizing the language through connections to the land. One aspect of the research involves inviting elders from the community to share their ideas and thoughts about ways to support our youth in learning the language. Elders will be invited to share ideas through a two hou...

Principal Investigator: Balanoff, Helen
Licensed Year(s): 2006 2005 2004
Summary: This study investigates traditional, historical, and contemporary forms of Aboriginal literacy in an Inuinnaqtun-speaking community using research methods derived from Inuinnaqtun ways of knowing. Two Inuinnaqtun-speaking researchers from Holman will con...

Principal Investigator: Manga, Louise
Licensed Year(s): 1994 1993 1992
Summary: The researcher will be continuing her study on the language of Inuktitut in young Inuit children....

Principal Investigator: Sadock, Jerrold M.
Licensed Year(s): 1992
Summary: The researcher has been working on a scientific grammar of the language of West Greenland, which is closely related to the Inuit dialects of the NWT, and in particular, those of Baffin Island. The aim of the the grammar is to avoid the bias of European languages and be truer to the form of this language itself. The researcher will discuss the grammar with educators and other specialists in Iqalu...

Principal Investigator: Nowak, Elke
Licensed Year(s): 1992
Summary: The Researcher will conduct purely grammatical research by gathering information on the social and political situation of Inuktitut: what changes and/or developments have taken place during the last four years? What is the situation in schools like, what kind of teaching material is available? What is the attitude of young people (under 30 years) toward the language?...

Principal Investigator: Stairs, Arlene
Licensed Year(s): 1992 1991 1990 1988
Summary: The study concerns processes of learning in an Inuit community today. It will focus on various learning settings (e.g. land, settlement, school) and groups of learners (e.g. adults learning new skills, school students). Special attention will be given to two features of the ongoing cultural brokerage between Inuit and western models of learning -- native educator roles and bridging language forms....

Principal Investigator: d'Anglejan, Alison
Licensed Year(s): 1980
Summary: To investigae how students pick up certain lingustic structures when trying to learn a second language. Tests will be administered to high school students by Dr. d'Anglejan....

Principal Investigator: Rice, Karen
Licensed Year(s): 1979
Summary: A continuation of the study of the Slave language in order to produce a Slave grammar. This will be used to produce curriculum materials for use in the schools....

Principal Investigator: Denny, J. Peter
Licensed Year(s): 1978
Summary: To study the Inuktitut language specifically related to mathermatics. This will assist in the development of curriculum materials to teach elementary school mathematics in Inuktitut....

Principal Investigator: Ackroyd, Linda
Licensed Year(s): 1977
Summary: To develop a Dogrib grammar and dictionary to assist in the development of teaching materials....