Newsletter July 2016
Welcome to the July edition of the Newsletter for the Research Unit for Indigenous Language. Our newsletter is published thrice-yearly in 2016 and contains details of the research activities, latest news and other achievements of the Research Unit.
Fieldwork Report: Yipirinya School, Alice Springs
RUIL team member Gillian Wigglesworth, and one of our PhD students Carly Steele visited Alice Springs at the end of May. They were there to trial different data collection methods for a project currently under consideration for funding with the Australian Research Council. They are working with Rhonda Oliver (Curtin University) and Robyn Ober (Bachelor Institute for Indigenous Tertiary Education). Their week in Alice Springs was spent working with teachers and students at Yipirinya Independent School. They spent time with teachers and children in.... Continue reading....
Nafsan dictionary work
Nick Thieberger has been working on a dictionary of Nafsan (Efate, Vanuatu) and ran a workshop in Erakor village in May, following up from a similar workshop in September 2015. The participants are all very keen to work on extending the information in the dictionary, especially as government policy is now in favour of initial vernacular literacy in schools. Continue reading....
Community book launch at Ti Tree
A new book, Mer Angenty-warn alhem: Travelling to Angenty waterhole (Batchelor Press), was launched at Ti Tree on the 18 May. An Anmatyerr team led by April Pengart Campbell and Clarrie Kemarr Long worked with Jenny Green from RUIL and Margaret Carew from Batchelor Institute to document songs and stories from Angenty, a sacred waterhole in Anmatyerr and Warlpiri country to the north of Alice Springs in Central Australia. Continue reading....