NWT RESEARCH DATABASE

Principal Investigator: Jaker, Alessandro M
Licensed Year(s): 2014 2013 2012 2009 2008 2007 2005
Summary: This project is the continuation of a previous year's project, "Teaching our Yellowknives Dene Languages". The research team will produce two published materials, in each language (Dogrib and Chipewyan): an intermediate-level reader, and a verb dictionary. The reader will contain elders' stories on topics from Dene Kede, with a focus on animals: the research team would like to include at least two...

Principal Investigator: Welch, Nicholas D S
Licensed Year(s): 2013 2009 2007
Summary: The grammar of Tlicho Yatii encodes a difference between permanent properties of individuals (individual-level predicates), and temporary, limited ones (stage-level predicates). This project seeks to discover whether this difference comes from lexical meaning or syntactic structure. If the latter, the principal researcher expects that sentences with stage-level predicates such as 'Michel has a col...

Principal Investigator: Saunders, Susan J
Licensed Year(s): 2013
Summary: The aim of this project is to determine the current status of the Michif language in the North Slave region by surveying Metis community members to find out the level of fluency of community members, their attitudes toward Michif, and their goals for the future of Michif in the community. The information will be compiled into a Strategic Language Plan that the community can use to guide its langua...

Principal Investigator: Hay, Amie
Licensed Year(s): 2012
Summary: The objective of this study is to discern whether the norms associated with the test currently being used accurately depict the population being served and to provide information for future study of language profiles of Inuvialuktun and Gwich'in. The project team will provide information on the project to parents and schools, and obtain consent from parents/guardians who are interested in part...

Principal Investigator: Parker, Aliana
Licensed Year(s): 2011
Summary: The research objective is to understand the connection between Indigenous languages and the land, and to explore how that connection is represented in websites used for Indigenous language education. The central research question is: What is the significance of Indigenous perspectives of land for Indigenous language revitalization efforts? The connection between language and land will be the main ...

Principal Investigator: Oehler, Alexander C.
Licensed Year(s): 2011
Summary: At the heart of this research lies the desire to better understand the role of Inuvialuktun (and its revitalization efforts) in the construction of Inuvialuit cultural identity. The objective of the study is to provide a detailed picture of language ideologies and language attitudes surrounding Inuvialuktun among potential and current learners in order to inform the development and design of langu...

Principal Investigator: Loovers, Jan Peter L.
Licensed Year(s): 2011
Summary: The objective of this project is to re-trace Gwich’in articulations in life, and to investigate the link between poetics (language and songs), well-being, memory, and land in circumpolar Canada (Fort McPherson and Peel River Watershed). The researcher will use a pedagogical approach. This implies to travel, work and live with Tetlit Gwich'in in Fort McPherson and in the Peel River Watershed. D...

Principal Investigator: SARIKAYA, SULEYMAN
Licensed Year(s): 2010
Summary: The objective of this research is to learn different English as a Second Language (ESL) teaching techniques by observation of ESL classes. The researcher will produce a formal written report that will include all observational data, curriculum comparisons, a summary of student work comparisons and all new ESL teaching techniques. The final formal report will be presented to the Yellowknife/Nort...

Principal Investigator: Marinakis, Aliki
Licensed Year(s): 2001
Summary: The research team will travel to Rae-Edzo by air and road, in order to collaborate with the local dictionary working group. The primary activities of the team will include assisting the working group on the collection, and computer inputting, of lexical and grammatical information on the Dogrib language....

Principal Investigator: Jones, Alana
Licensed Year(s): 1999
Summary: Alana Johns and Carrie Gillon will visit Inuvik for approximately three weeks in June 1999. During this time they will employ a number of speakers of the Siglit and Ummarmiut dialects of Inuktitut for brief one hour sessions. These sessions will either be 1) story collecting where the main purpose is to collect language data, not the content of the story itself. For this reason any story which the...