NWT RESEARCH DATABASE

Principal Investigator: Pater, Joseph
Licensed Year(s): 1991
Summary: The Researcher will investigate how the cultural background of Native speakers of Inuktitut influences their use of the English 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: Kritsch, Ingrid D.
Licensed Year(s): 1990
Summary: The Researcher will live in the community of Trout Lake for 14 months. During that time, she will write a general ethnography of the Trout Lake people with a particular emphasis on the economy and the social networks within the community....

Principal Investigator: Ireland, Jeanette
Licensed Year(s): 1990 1989 1988
Summary: Jeanette Ireland will continue collecting oral Inuit stories from elders of various eastern Arctic communities and written Inuit textbooks. The researcher hopes to improve approaches to the study of Inuktitut texts, oral and written, as literature representative of Inuit perceptions of world issues and social interaction....

Principal Investigator: Clark, Leigh
Licensed Year(s): 1989
Summary: Mr. Clark will examine the use of computers in elementary schools in Iqaluit. He will make classroom observations as well as interview children, staff and school board members. Special attention will be paid to information referencing the use of computers in language learning....

Principal Investigator: Harnum, Betty
Licensed Year(s): 1987
Summary: To complete a study of Inuktitut in the Eastern Arctic and Keewatin with respect to how the language is currently changing. Interviews will be conducted with the informed consent of various community agencies and individuals regarding the development of new words which explains new items and ideas as well as changes in the sounds and sentence structure. Influences from other languages will be ex...

Principal Investigator: Mazurkewich, Irene
Licensed Year(s): 1985
Summary: To focus study on the acquisition of a particular grammatical structure in English by Inuit students....

Principal Investigator: Prattis, Iain
Licensed Year(s): 1985
Summary: Comparative analysis of bilingualism policy in Northern Canada (Inuktitut - English) and the Western Isles of Scotland (Gaelic - English)....

Principal Investigator: Dorais, Louis-Jacques
Licensed Year(s): 1985
Summary: Through tests and questionnaires administered in the schools, to measure the degree of bilingualism of the 9-15 year old pupils....

Principal Investigator: Wilman, David
Licensed Year(s): 1984
Summary: Research on language acquisition by Inuit children....