May Language Camp and WAYK Workshop
May 27th – June 6th, 2019 Monday-Thursday | 9:30 am – 3:30 pm Join us as the Tsleil-Waututh Nation Department of Language and Culture kicks off the 2019 Summer Language… Read more »
Posts Tagged: Language Revitalization
Okanagan Indian Band Introductory WAYK Workshop
August 19 – August 23, 2019 The WAYK team will visit with N̓səl̓xcin̓ language teachers and learners to provide a 5-day introductory WAYK workshop in partnership with the Okanagan Indian… Read more »
Pueblo of Pojoaque WAYK Language Immersion Workshop
March 11 – March 15, 2019 Join the Pueblo of Pojoaque Tewa Language Department for five days of language learning and an introduction to the Where Are Your Keys (WAYK)… Read more »
February Language Camp and WAYK Workshop
February 19 – February 22, 2019 The Tsleil-Waututh Nation Department of Language & Culture and the WAYK team present a week of language and method during our February Language Camp…. Read more »
Robbie’s 2018 Update from Trevelin, Esquel, & Bariloche
Here’s Robbie Penman’s update from the spring of 2018, several months after his summer with WAYK on St. Paul Island, Alaska. Thanks for the update, Robbie! In April, me and… Read more »
WAYK 2019 Summer Language Intensive
May 17, 2019 – August 4, 2019 This summer, the WAYK team, including new WAYK interns, will live in the Vancouver area and work with a team of local speakers… Read more »
Tsleil-Waututh Nation Winter Visit
January 7, 2019 – April 12, 2019 The WAYK team returns to Tsleil-Waututh Nation in North Vancouver, BC in the winter of 2019 to partner with the TWN language department,… Read more »
Going Cold Jerky*: Outside of the WAYK Bubble
Here’s Robbie Penman’s update from the fall of 2017, a few months after his summer with WAYK on St. Paul Island, Alaska. Thanks for the update, Robbie! *Jerky is one… Read more »
Frequently Asked Questions about WAYK Internships
We’ve put together a list of some of the most common questions we get about WAYK internships and Summer Language Intensive projects. We hope that anyone who’s interested in applying… Read more »
Call for WAYK 2019 Interns!
This summer, we are once again fortunate to offer WAYK internship opportunities during the 2019 Summer Language Intensive. The internship positions are sponsored by our host community, Tsleil-Waututh Nation, in… Read more »
Announcing WAYK’s 2019 Summer Intensive: North Vancouver, British Columbia!
WAYK is very excited to announce—after months (and years!) of planning with the host community—that our 2019 Summer Intensive will take place in North Vancouver, British Columbia! This will be… Read more »
Bubble Policy: How Can Immersion Bubbles Help an Indigenous Language Community?
In my last blog, I wrote about the obstacles to maintaining an immersion bubble. In this blog, I ask how the immersion bubble, as a kind of “language policy”, can… Read more »
Bubble Policy: Why Do People Break or Keep Up Immersion?
The idea of creating an “immersion bubble” is probably nothing new in language learning. Nor is it new within the field of language revitalization in the 20th and 21st centuries;… Read more »
Tsleil-Waututh Nation Fall Visit
September 18, 2018-October 12, 2018 November 5, 2018-December 7, 2018 The WAYK team returns to Tsleil-Waututh Nation in North Vancouver, BC for 9 weeks in the fall of 2018 to… Read more »
Tsleil-Waututh Nation Fall Visit
September 18, 2018-October 12, 2018 November 5, 2018-December 7, 2018 The WAYK team returns to Tsleil-Waututh Nation in North Vancouver, BC for 9 weeks in the fall of 2018 to… Read more »
Linguistic Terminology Part 2
Read Myles’ first post about linguistic terminology here. Working in the field of linguistics over the last few years, I have noticed some divisions in terminology that I would like… Read more »
Introducing the WAYKcast!
We are happy to share the first episode of season one of the WAYKcast, a new podcast from WAYK about language revitalization, language learning, and Where Are Your Keys. In… Read more »
WAYK 2018 Summer Language Intensive
This summer, the WAYK team, including 4 WAYK interns, will live in Anchorage and work with a team of local and regional speakers and youth from both Eastern and Western speaking… Read more »
Call for WAYK 2018 Interns!
This summer, we are once again fortunate to offer internship opportunities during the 2018 WAYK Summer Intensive. The internship positions are sponsored by our host community (APIA), in partnership with… Read more »
Tsleil-Waututh Nation Winter Visit 2018
The WAYK team returns to Tsleil-Waututh Nation in North Vancouver, BC for 10 weeks in the winter/spring of 2018 to partner with the TWN language department in their work with the… Read more »