DaCURENT RESUME. ED 205 041 FL 012 454 AUTHOR Huebner, Thom, Comp. TITLE Sqloton-Tslands:Pitin:_Special Skills Handbook. Peace Corps Language Handbook_ Series, INSTITUTION School for International Training, BrattlebOro, V+. '. SPONS AGENCY Peace Corps; Washington, D.C. PUB DATE 79 CONTRACT Pc-78-043-1037 NOTE 237p.: For related documents see FL 012 454-456. AVATLABLE,FPOM The Eicperiment in'Tnternational Living, Brattleboro.' VT 05301. !DRS PRICE MF01/PC10 Plms Postage. DESCRIPTORS *CulturkI Education: Dicttonaries: Geography: *Legends: *Maps: Postsecondary Education: *Second Language Learning: Supplementary Reading Materials: nc6mmonly Taught Ltnguages IDENTIFIERS Peace Corps: *Pitin: *Solomon Islands ABSTRACT This handbook is intended to acauaint Peace_Corps Volunteers.vith the geography and culture of the Solomon Islands. It IS dll.iiid°0d into five parts:(11 an atlas of pen-and-i0 maps of the isI*nds: (21 custom stories "3.n with an English translation of elch one: -(31 miscenanemus readings.inPilin:(41 'posters in Pijin: and (51a picture dictionary era learning guide. 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The Solomon Islands Pijin materials were developed under the auspices of Ae Foreign Language Officeof The Experiment in International Living's School for International Training. Project director and editor Raymond C. -Clark Assistant director and editorial assistant Arthur A. Burrows Administrative assistant Susan McBean Copyright CS1979 by Thom Huebner and The Experiment in Inter- national Living,All Rights Reserved;No part of these materials may be reproduced; stored in a retrieval system; or transmitted in any form or by any means except by ACTION/Peace-Corps or other agency of the U.S.government or with the prior written permission of one of the following: ACTION/PeaceCorps,aU.S. __government agency, The Experiment in Inteniational Living or Thom Huebner.Furthermore; no part of these materials may be republished commercially without the written permission of The Experiment in International Living and Thom Huebner. Peace Corps contract # 78-043-1037 3 SOLOMON ISLANDS PIJIN SPECIAL SKILLS HANDBOOK Compiler and Translator Thom Huebner LanguageInformant Luke-- Susuta Consultants Stephen' Rex Horoi, Bernadine -Roughan ArtistS Calvin Fujioka, Eric Woo Typists Thomas, Furrie, Karen Dorst Lisa Forrett, Susan Leu4ter (_ ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS This work; like many others;is the result of the cooperation of many people.There is not space enough to thank everyone who has been of assistance in bringing this series of books', to fruition; but I would like to thank a few of them publicly. The funding for these books was \_prdvidedl.by a grant from the Peace Corps to The Ejcperiment in International Living.I am grateful to the Peace Corps for recognizing a need for these materials ;to Paul Krause for recommending me for the job; and to the people at The Experimentin Vermont who have made working onthisprojecta pleasure. Iwould especially liketo thank Ray Clark for hisable arection,Susan McBean and Andy Burrows for their patience and support, and the other six writers on the projet for _the ideas they sharedwith me. Thislatter group includes Steve Trussel;Annie Hawkinson;JonDayley;Dave Hopkins;SteveHanchey,and Tim Francis. My first contacts with the Solomons were through John, Bernadine Ind Paul Damien Roughan. ,Throughout the writing of these materials, John was always generous with his time and advice whenever I asked. 3ernie;who wasasecondary informant oh .theproject,provided support in the form of advice; ,information; enbouragement; and good tumor.She also provided material support in the form of photographs 'dr the illustrators and the female voice on the tapes.Paul Damien. was fiery understanding about Our taking his mother from him and provided I warmth to the project that no one else could-have.t Upon my arrival in the Solomon Islands; Ann IvirirsIrld, co=director )f the Peace Corps arranged for me to meet with people concerned with 'itin and language policies.Francis Labu was kind enough to 'let me ookat 'hi§ .translationof T.E.Dutton'sConversational New Guinea 'idgin. Marion -t'Cl-ark is responsible for introducing me to the co-author of these books, Rex Horoi; and for encouraging him to work with me. on them, DanielMaeke,thePermanent SecretaryoftheMinistryof Education and Training,generously granted Rex a leave of absence from his teaching responsiblities so that he might participate in this project. The staffsoftheGovernment InformationOffice,the Solomon Islands Museum, and the Solomon Islands Toktok all helped to make these books a little more appealing to :-he eye by providing photographs frOm which the illustrators could get ideas, Ron Campbell,training project coordinator for the Peace Corps group which trained in the fail of 1978, compiled a pamphlet entitled Resour I _.s,which wasusedasthe basis, for many of _the follow-upactivitiesin -The Communication and Culture Handbook.{ The trainees during that program and many of the volunteers who were in the country at that time were very candid in telling of their rektions to their- own Pijin courses, of the cross cul- tural and ling-aisticj difficulties they had had; and of what they would like to see in a new \course: Back in Honolul,Bob Gibson and Bonnie Davis of the Pacific Area Language Materials D velopment Project of the University of Hawaii and Ken Rehg and Rick = ackson. of the Bilingual Education for the Trust TerritoriesProject of the University of Hawaii were very helpful in sho*ing me, how to avoid some of the pitfalls in work' of this kind.In additien; Bob and Bona were responsible for findinrme the excellent illustrators who worked n the project.' . Dick Day and HeleHarper of the Department of English as a Second Language,and yron Bender and Larry Thompson of .the Department of Linguisticsat the University of Hawaii were'very kind to allow Rex to take advantae of the expertise. they have to offer in their respective fields while he s in Honolulu. Renee Heyum, Curator of the Pacific Collection of Hamilton Library at the University of Hawaii, was helpful in providing us with access to the closed shelves of thatollection and in leading us to information when we didn't know where to look. Don Topping, Director of the Social Sciences Research Institute at the Unkftrsity encouraged us to make. tapes to accompany the materials and provided us with our first contact with the University of Hawaii Foreign Language Laboratories.Jerry Chalig and his staff saw toit that the tapes we made were of the finest quality. The tapes of the custom stories were made by Luke Susuta of the Solomon Islands Br(')adcasting Corporation.He also ihelped record the basic materials for The Communication and Culture Handbook and edited the Pijin materials in that volume.' ivs During the Spring;1979;training program;the Pijin teachers, Johnny Morgan; Patrick- Billy, Eric Sepi; Joshua 'Tenau, Malachai Hato; and Grace Wale,- pointed out many of the weaknesses in the first draft of the materials and had many useful suggestions for= revisions.Ernie Lee,who satinonthattraining program,also had many- useful suggestions from both a linguistic and a pedagogical point of view. CarolineSiota;theAdministrativeOfficer_ ofthePeace_. Corps Solomons;and finny Marten;the Secretary; were very suportive; patient;andhelpful. Discussions .cwith.Peace Corps Solomonsco- director Terry Marshall led to a change in the format of the lessons in The Communications and Culture Handbook- whichresultedinan >im- proved product. Three people I've never met; but whose ideas made a great con- tribution to the basic direction these books have taken are E. Thomas Brewster and Elizabeth S.12 Brewster, 'co-authors of Language Acquisition Made Practical,and Alan Healey,author of Language Learner's Field Guide. Pete Lincoln proved to be a very helpful consultant by reading most of the lessons in The Grammar Handbook and making suggestions for improvethent; IllustratorsCalvin Fujioka and EricWoo, whoe skillattheir profession you can judge for yOurSelyeg, provided all of the illustra- tions for The Special Skills Handbook .apd some of the illustrationd for the other two books.Pat Moran of The Experiment in International Living did the lion'sshare of the illustrations in The Communication andGultureAaandbook ...,, Typists\ThomasFurrie and Karen -Dorst worked very hard pre- paring the m`anydrafts of the manuscripts.Npicy Hendricks, Lisa Forrett, andusan Leuchtkr typed the prelithinafy texts for field test- ingandd Lisa d _Susan sa*---thIsproject through_ to the final typing of the manuscript;\Needless to say; typing the drafts and texts was a challenging task involving many many revisions.A thousand thanks for their patience an skill.: Finally,a very .special"Ivhank you"to Rex Hor9i.-He threw himself into the pr\oject with tr,Tiendous enthusiasm anthefiergy. r_. i There are ma:ny morePeople who have helped in one way or another during the course of this project and if I have failed to mention them by name, plea e forgive me. -1* TABLE OF CONTENTS PART_ ONE "Atlas 1 Pacific Ocean 2 South-we_st Pacific 3 Solomon Islands 4 New Georgia Group, Choiseul, 5 Santa Isabel 6 Guadalcanal, Thissell Is., Savo & Nggela Group 7 Guadalcanal 8. Malaita 9 San Cristobg -10 Santa Cruz & Eastern District r 11 Ontong Java, Rennell & Bellona 12 Honiara 13 PART TWO Cu-tom Stories 15 .