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<p><span style="font-family:Calibri; font-size:18px">Hi Alan</span></p>
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<p><span style="font-family:Calibri; font-size:18px">I'</span><span style="font-family:Calibri; font-size:18px">m familiar with the University of Auckland's Pacific languages program.</span></p>
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<p><font face="Calibri"><span style="font-size:18px">Four Polynesian languages, Maori, Samoan, Tongan and Cook Is. Maori, <span style="font-family:Calibri; font-size:18px"> are taught there, by staff of the Centre for Pacific Studies, with courses up to 3rd
year. </span> The program for Maori is far more extensive than for the other languages, as you would expect, and includes Master's papers and PhD.</span></font></p>
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<p><font face="Calibri"><span style="font-size:18px">There are also two linguistics courses that are part of the program: Languages of the Pacific, and Polynesian Comparative Linguistics, plus a course on poetry of the Pacific Islands.</span></font></p>
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<p><font face="Calibri"><span style="font-size:18px">There's a Maori language program at each of the universities in NZ. </span></font></p>
<p><font face="Calibri"><span style="font-size:18px">Samoan is taught at Victoria U. of Wellington, at the undergrad. level.</span></font></p>
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<p><font face="Calibri"><span style="font-size:18px">At the Manoa campus of the University of Hawaii, the Indo-Pacific Languages Dept has extensive BA and MA programs in Hawaiian and Samoan. There are 8 faculty listed as teaching Samoan language and culture.</span></font></p>
<p><font face="Calibri"><span style="font-size:18px">There's also an extensive program in Hawaiian at the Hilo campus.</span></font></p>
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<p><font face="Calibri"><span style="font-size:18px">The Laucala Bay campus of the University of the South Pacific offers a few undergrad courses in Fijian language and culture, in the School of Language, Arts and Media. No other PI language is taught there unless
you want to count Hindi, which of course is one of the main languages of Fiji. </span></font></p>
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<p><font face="Calibri"><span style="font-size:18px">I had a look at the UPNG website. There's a Linguistics program but I found no mention of courses in particular PNG languages, not even Tok Pisin. </span></font></p>
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<p><font face="Calibri"><span style="font-size:18px">Tahitian is taught at the Tahiti campus of the U. French Polynesia. Don't know about Noumea. I can ask my French colleagues. </span></font></p>
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<p><font face="Calibri"><span style="font-size:18px">Andy</span></font></p>
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<b>Sent:</b> Sunday, October 16, 2016 9:03:26 PM<br>
<b>To:</b> pacific.institute@mailman.anu.edu.au<br>
<b>Subject:</b> [ANU Pacific.Institute] Two queries concerning Pacific language teaching</font>
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<div style="font-family:Calibri">Miranda and I (as co-convenor) have recently received a request from Stephan Fruehling —chair of a CAP working group on language teaching in CAP — for a submission from the Institute on Pacific language teaching at ANU, with
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt">In response to this request I am forming a working group to look into these matters and prepare a submission. If any of you wishes to volunteer to serve on that working group please let me know. Your participation
would be greatly appreciated.</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt">My second, related query is this. As you can see, one of the tasks we are charged with is to compile information about ‘national and international offerings of Pacific language teaching’. Whether or not you
would like to serve in the working group, I would greatly appreciate it if you could send me information about any current or recent offerings in Pacific languages that you may know of at universities of other institutions anywhere in the world.</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt">Best regards,</p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt">Alan Rumsey</p>
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