Higher Education - Edmonton, Alberta, Canada
CILLDI (pronounced ‘sill-dee') hosts an annual summer school held at the University of Alberta, and is dedicated to the revitalization of Canada's Indigenous languages through documentation, teaching, and literacy. Our purpose is to support individuals at the community level by providing basic training in linguistics, native languages, second language teaching, and other aspects of professional enhancement such as language-related research and policy making.CILLDI has been in operation since 2000. Throughout this time, it has provided practical training to students, training which has been directly implemented back in the community. It is a tri-Faculty initiative at the University of Alberta, involving the Faculties of Arts, Education, and Native Studies. CILLDI strives to be multicultural, cross-linguistic, interdisciplinary, interregional, intergenerational, and responsive to different sociolinguistic situations in language communities under threat.