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<p>Dear Alan</p>
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<p>I think the answer to question two is simple: if we have more resources we should put them into strengthening and extending our offerings (hardly existing anyway) on Tok Pisin and Bislama (realistically I don't think we're as likely to offer Solomons Pijin). </p>
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<p>Will talk about other stuff when we meet</p>
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<p>Nick</p>
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<b>Sent:</b> Thursday, October 20, 2016 12:00:56 AM<br>
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<b>Subject:</b> [ANU Pacific.Institute] Two more queries about the teaching of Pacific languages</font>
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<div>Dear Colleagues,</div>
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<div>Further to my message of Sunday as below, in which I asked for information about the teaching of Pacific languages, I would greatly appreciate hearing any responses you may want to offer concerning the other two points we are charged with addressing, i.e.</div>
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<div>Do any of you have an interest in teaching Pacific languages, and if so, which?</div>
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<div><span style="font-family: Calibri;">If ANU were to make greater investment in Pacific languages, which languages should be prioritised and why?</span></div>
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<span style="font-weight: bold;">From: </span>Alan Rumsey <<a href="mailto:alan.rumsey@anu.edu.au">alan.rumsey@anu.edu.au</a>><br>
<span style="font-weight: bold;">Date: </span>Sunday, 16 October 2016 9:03 pm<br>
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<span style="font-weight: bold;">Subject: </span>Two queries concerning Pacific language teaching<br>
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<div style="font-family: Calibri;">Dear colleagues,</div>
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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;">- current activities or interest in Pacific language teaching amongst ANU pacific scholars<o:p></o:p></p>
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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
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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>
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