Bilingual & Multilingual

Sociology and Anthropology Thesis (M.A.)--Concordia University, 2003.

Looks at program using first language for number concept development.

Discusses the health of the four Polynesian Pasifika languages from the researchers and writers perspective.

Looks at relationship between education system with local districts, funding, state and federal policies, and standards and sovereignty, all external obstacles effecting language revitalization.

Discusses how language can empower people or disenfranchise them.

Looks at policies for language practices and official language status for Norway's Aboriginal peoples.

Discusses Navajo specialized bilingual programs.

Documentary aboutthe scars and legacy of residential schools on the First Nations Reserve of Wikwemikong on Manitoulin Island In Georgian Bay Ontario. Duration: 59:29.

Comments from a bilingual teacher about his experiences and concerns.

Looks at the correlation between student success and parental support.

Curriculum and Instruction Thesis (M.Ed.)--University of New Brunswick, 2007. Appendices not available.

Reports national results as well as regions and selected states. See Part II - The Educational Experiences of Fourth and Eighth Grade American Indian and Alaska Native Students: Statistical Analysis Report.

Reports on results of survey of 10,000 participants in reading assessment and 10,300 in mathematics assessment. Compares results to National Indian Education Study for 2005. See Part II - The Educational Experiences of American Indian and Alaska Native Students in Grades 4 and 8: Statistical Analysis Report.

Study to determine whether a highly-structured, phonetic approach to reading might be useful for Navajo children at the Rough Rock Demonstration School.

First issue of graphic magazine designed to support literacy in Inuktitut and English and promote Inuit culture. This issue focuses on supernatural beings from traditional stories.

Examines the status of nine Indigenous languages in South Africa and the attempts to protect and preserve them. Paper presented at the Indigenous Knowledge Conference 2001 held at the University of Saskatchewan.

Looks at ways to improve language, literacy, and quality of life for young Aboriginal children.

Looks at significance of Indigenous languages and language policy at national and state levels.

Methodists and Ojibwa cooperatively developed a system, which included bilingual instruction, some Ojibwa teachers and the Pestalozzi teaching method that seemed more suitable for the learning styles.

Chapter 7 from Nurturing Native Languages edited by Jon Reyhner, Octaviana V. Trujillo, Roberto Luis Carrasco and Louise Lockard. Discusses Indigenous language education, language revitalization and the role of the Canadian Indigenous Languages and Literacy Development Institute.

Program created to aid Navajo students whose first language is not English and enhance their language, motor, and conceptual skill development.

Discusses the role that books can play in language revitalization, criteria for selection, themes, and potential use in the classroom.

Discusses the importance of pretend play for the overall development of the child as well as encouraging emergent literacy.

Results appear to suggest that those students who had learned English at an early age may have had an advantage in solving the most difficult problem.

Studies Seminole word use by third and fourth graders attending a Bureau of Indian Affairs elementary school.

Describes project undertaken in 2000 by a grade 6,7,8 class to carve a totem pole. Site is bilingual Nisga'a and English and includes 4 minute streaming video.

States that Native Americans have little input with respect to education and that culturally sensitive teaching would better prepare students for success.

Comments on a successful program that returned the Yup'ik language into the classroom.

Overview of government services in Nunavut resulting from a series of public consultations.

Education Leadership and Foundations Thesis (D.Ed.)--Western Carolina University, 2006.

[Education, Health and Human Development] Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Canterbury, 2007.

Looks at factors which have led to the success of the curriculum in Arviat, Nunavut.

Literature review reveals that students are not developing cognitive academic language skills to be successful and recommends processes for transitioning from reservation English.

A resource for teacher and supplement to Research Into Practice: An Overview of Reading Research for Washington State. Looks at facets of education influenced by parents and teachers not policymakers.

Looks at the link between linguistic and cultural diversity and Indigenous languages to knowledge systems of the Mohawk in Canada and the United States, the Hawaiian in the Pacific, and the Hopi and Navajo in the U. S. Southwest.

Language and Literacy Education Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of British Columbia, 2015.

Looks at three approaches: English as Second Language, English Developmental Programs and the use of aural-oral vocabulary.

Comments on how three territories correlate cultural diversity. To access article scroll to p. 30.

Discusses the preservation, protection and promotion of the Inuit language and debates about the development of language politics and policies in Nunavut.

Looks at the issues surrounding multiculturalism and multicultural education.

Bilingual Cree-English education program created at the Red Earth Reserve in Saskatchewan.

Studies the development of Maori immersion programs, which have helped change the nature of Maori-government relations.

Uses the example of a program at Michigan State University to explore issues in incorporating heritage languages into the curriculum of post-secondary institutions.

Looks at factors that may explain the difficulties Cree Students are faced with in present day school format and that these difficulties are also encountered by other school environments.

Looks at the challenges of offering language programs at both universities and technical institutions.

Looks at the concept of va (relationship/relatedness) and its use in the educational system.