YOUR BAHASA IS ELEGANT AND SMOOTH

Language teachers please read

As an officer of the Australian Army, I attended the RAAF School of Languages in 1973 to study Bahasa Indonesia. I passed the year with a broad skill in Bahasa. But I was not brilliant.

Each week, we had to pass tests involving translation and interpreting. It was pressure study.

I graduated in December 1973 and was immediately put to work .... in Papua New Guinea. I have never used my Bahasa in a formal way.

I worked for two years in PNG and was sent back to teach language. Bahasa? No. I conducted courses in Tok Pisin.

After one year of teaching Tok Pisin, I returned to the RAAF School of Languages for refresher in Bahasa. To my surprise, it came out smoothly, far better than in 1973.

The lecturer in charge briefed me at the end of the course as was done to each refresher student. He said that my Bahasa skill was OK at the end of the course in 1973.

The lecturers commented that my fluency had improved markedly over the five years since 1973. But I had not ever used Bahasa in that time.

I had used Tok Pisin. I feel now that there was transfer from Tok Pisin to Bahasa in so many ways. Often I found my Bahasa running smoothly in Tok Pisin formats. Some patterns were identical.

When the Army School moved to the RAAF School, I found there were PNG officer students having problems with their Bahasa. So I found myself given the task to produce lists of Tok Pisin to Bahasa.

Saya John. Mi John
Saya orang Indonesia. Mi man bilong Indonesia
Itu buku.  Em i buk
Itu buku saya. Em i buk bilong mi.
Itu buku merah. Em i retpela buk.

Jangan masuk. No ken kam insait
Jangan kwatir. No ken wari.

Saya pergi. Mi go
Saya pergi ke kota. Mi go long taun.
Siapa yang akan pergi? Husat bai go?
Saya pergi dengan ibu saya. Mi go wantain mama bilong mi.
Saya akan pergi. Mi bai go.
Dia akan pergi tiap tiap hari. Em bai go wan wan de.

and hundreds more.

TEACH YOURSELF TOK PISIN

BAHASA INDONESIA TREE (1)

RHYTHM IS A KEY TO LANGUAGE LEARNING

So there may be a transfer of skill from vernacular to English. But the vernacular teacher has to include English patterns to be able to show the links. Focus should be on rhythm.

English should be taught with the occasional comparison with the vernacular pattern. Elementary teachers will not naturally have the skills mentioned in this report.

It is not enough just to teach vernacular then English and think that it will all fall into place.

SIL DEFENDS VERNACULAR LITERACY

In the Weekend Courier of Papua New Guinea dated 17 November 2012, there is a report from an SIL linguist justifying elementary vernacular literacy.

The sincerity of Robbie Petterson is applauded but he is obviously not a teacher. Please click:

VERNACULAR TEACHING IS ACADEMIC FANTASY

In recent months, the Summer Institute of Linguistics has been under pressure from the PNG Government in the removing of vernacular literacy training in elementary school.

This has been the reason-to-be for the SIL for many years. They are preparing us all for the Second Coming. The official suggestion has been that vernacular training in literacy has been a failure.

But one Robbie Petterson of SIL has lifted the veil of secrecy to explain the success of vernacular learning by a story of a school involved in vernacular learning supported by SIL.

The propaganda has always been that students involved in vernacular language do better in English later on. Robbie Petterson does not produce statistics but tells us a nice story in anecdotal format.

For your interest, the literacy statistics for this grade 7 class are typical for schools in the area. Seven out of 17 students are good readers of English. Six can only read at beginner level and four can not read at all.

But the really interesting finding is that of the seven good readers in this class, nearly all came from tok ples elementary feeder schools. 

Only two came from the local English only elementary schools. All the non- readers went to the local English-only school.

There are many flaws in this description:

He generalizes on all schools in the area without a formal survey cited.

He makes subjective sampling of students.

How does he assess 'good readers'? Do they come out one at a time and read?

What of spelling, structure, writing, comprehension and vocabulary?

Surely all schools are different for various reasons.

Are all the schools open throughout the year?

Do all students attend throughout all terms?

How many students from vernacular schools have low achievement?

There only a few books in the school in the vernacular language? Is this satisfactory?

Many schools have no vernacular books as tok ples has not been translated into the bible.

If the SIL wants to explain the worth of vernacular, let them show solid statistics of the schools under question.

Robbie says that students who did not learn to read, should not be pushed up to grade 3 without having learned to read. This means they should be kept back in elementary. Not good. Please click:

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EDUCATIONAL UNDERCLASS IN PNG SCHOOLS

The report above makes me sad to reread. But it does reflect the true situation in many Papua New Guinea schools, particularly in the rural area. It is a worst case scenario which means that many schools are not a bad as that.

Surely a little remedial work would help. Reading is not a difficult task if done in a practical mastery way.

There have been reports of 800 languages in PNG. Recent media reports give the figure at 1100. Perhaps the Second Coming should just come.

It will take another 500 years to translate all these languages. Too bad for the local vernacular schools.

VERNACULAR SHOULD BE PROMOTED TWO LESSONS A WEEK

ACADEMIC GETS OBE WRONG

There is a report in the Post Courier of PNG explaining why Outcome Based Education should be scrapped.

It was written by one Dr Michael Unagi of the National Research Institute and has all the appearance of academic rubbish full of unjustified opinions paraded as fact.

Dr Unagi wrote Reviewing Education (sic) Process. Educational is the word Doctor.  That appears to be the basis of his fame. He does not have any paper posted on Google, not even the report above.

Unagi has put together a mixture of opinions. No wonder he says that OBE is described as gobblegook, scandalous and phantasm. He just made that up. Quotes are always to the point if we make the quotes up ourselves.

This foolish doctor pontificates that advocates and technical advisors have beguiled themselves in their own pomposity. He seems to be doing the same.

He claims that OBE is propagated under cliches of "No child left behind." and "continue until success". There is a grain of truth.

It was begun at a time in the 1950s when education was seen as the right of all children. But the process was sabotaged with removal of basics in literacy and numeracy.

But properly designed, OBE must have a cut-off point for the non-achievers and enrichment exercises for the high-achievers.

Unagi may be explaining the dumbing down of education but does not explain how the high achievers can go forward into higher success. He damns Mastery Learning as if just by mentioning it, the process is damned. Is he a teacher?

Unagi wants to kill OBE not suggest ways of making it work. Keep academics out of curriculum. Please click:

KEEP ACADEMICS AWAY FROM SCHOOL CURRICULUM

He damns that OBE outcomes involve values, attitudes and relationships. He just wants facts, facts and facts. Values encompass so much.

What were the values of Adolf Hitler and the Greens Movement? What are the attitudes of those who reject measures to protect the planet from the greenhouse effect?

Study of values puts it all together. He says this puts cognitive development into disarray. Is he a teacher? Knowledge of values is at the basal level of Bloom's Taxonomy of Educational Objectives.

He says all this can be covered in guidance, personal development, religious instruction and social science. He is probably not a teacher. He seems to be looking in from the outside.

He talks of the massive expense. It will not cost as much as maintenance of the road system of Port Moresby.

The key to successful Mastery Learning is that mastery resources are centralized from grades 1-12. Teaching of literacy starts with phonics.

All such Mastery Learning is practical. High achievers can have a library book to read if the work is finished. That is a small problem. Please click:

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LEARNING BASICS THE PLAY-WAY METHOD

Writing skills could be developed from grades 1-12 with 2000 mastery exercises. A design team could put these together ready for validation in 3 months. 

So too mastery of science. Primary school mastery exercises from Gr 1-8 could be put together in 8 weeks by a team of designers.  Much would be pitched at the village environment. It would be unforgettable learning. Please click:

MASTERY LEARNING IN SCIENCE

Failure of systems in the world is often due to the fact that chaos came with massive decentralization. Take the old Soviet industrial system.

There was not even uniformity in vehicle and electronic spare parts. Every factory made their own. Nothing fitted. OBE was decentralized in PNG schools so that nothing at all fitted.

Mastery Learning can only succeed if planned and prepared by a skilled design team of teachers with academics carefully screened out.

But Dr Unagi seems not to know about the mastery of skills by Mastery Learning. He thinks it is all gobbledgook and phantasm. Silly man. How did he learn to ride a bicycle and tie his shoe laces? Please click:

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What does the nation do if OBE is removed? Please click:

EDUCATION IS NOT EDUCATION IN PAPUA NEW GUINEA

Education in this country is as low as it can get. It is not just OBE but the removal of basics. It is good to hear the education curriculum people in PNG talking about phonics and memorization of poetry and multiplication tables.

Teachers are conmfortable with having students focus on theory from books. Most younger teachers do not know the practical application of theory. Read the report above.

Sadly too many teachers started their primary school lives with the new and stupid strategy of removing memorization that was slipped into school curriculum without consultation in the 1960s. It is not what teachers know.

Dr Unagi is helping to sabotage the curriculum by ignoring the basics. He does not understand the basic cause of the problems of education.

Memorization is back but not practical application of skills. The curriculum below is based on practical scenarios. Students remember correct decisions more than just blank theory. Please click:

WORK PROGRAM FOR GRADE 10

Teachers should choose the best. That is to (1) memorize basics and (2) work out practical problems. But the publishers came to dominate content without consultation with Education.

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PORNOGRAPHY DAMAGES FAMILY

The National 15 November 2012 A. Saiyama journalism student.

Pornography is a major threat to marriage, family, children and individual happiness. Director of Family Missions to the Papua New Guinea Union Mission Pastor Simeon Nara says that pornography is becoming a major issue.

Many individuals consider pornography as a neutral entertainment with little or no negative influence.

Pornography significantly impacts the user, as well as family, work place and community. Most negative effects were found in couple relationships.

Married men feel less satisfied with their conjugal relationships. It is a pathway that could lead to infidelity and divorce. Pornography leads to a loss of interest in good family relationships.

Pornography increases negative attitudes towards women as objects existing for male sexual pleasure. It leads to early experimentation by young people.

There was an earlier report that sex education in schools has to match the messages on internet pornography. Please click:

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PAEDOPHILE ABUSE IN CATHOLIC PNG

There are two reports on the blog PNG Attitude about the priests charged with paedophilia in Australia who have done service in Papua New Guinea. Please click:

Was PNG a training-ground for priestly child molesters?

Precedent for PNG 'dumping ground' for abusive priests

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AIDS Holistics has written on blog about the report from a past student on the gross paedophilia among Catholic clergy at De La Salle College in Port Moresby during the 1970s and 1980s. Please click:

STEALING A CHILD'S BODY AND SOUL

We were told of clergy taking school boys swimming in the Laloki River and swimming among them masturbating and penetrating their anuses. These boys would be in their 50s now.

The past student stated that he left the Catholic church the moment he graduated.

People suffering from HIV can also be sexually abused. There was once a priest who had strong interest in young women. He set up a live-in centre for them.

But he would not let family visit. He did not allow them to leave the centre on threat of being expelled. They had to stay with him. Families were turned away at the gate.

There were young women who left the centre probably the result of wandering like demented sheep in final AIDS. They were kicked out.

Why would he not let the families visit? The young women were dying. The key to Positive Living was family. It may be that he had something to hide.

Care centres welcome families. But not at 16 Mile outside Port Moresby. He did his best to destroy the Positive Living message.

He worked to isolate AIDS Holistics from the community in conspiracy with the AusAID lesbian advisors. The priest wanted to be the leader in AIDS awareness but had no knowledge of the basics.

He ordered the founder to stop any input on HIV/AIDS claiming that he did not have the intellect to understand the intricacies of the infection.

Yes Father. No Father. Then he turned nasty when the Positive Living message did not stop.

Some priests think they really are vicars of Christ, even when they are vicious pagans claiming a holy mandate to turn bread and wine into the body and blood of Christ.

For some, authority corrupts but absolute authority corrupts absolutely. All paedophile priests fit this mould. Developing countries promote and attract non-team players and misfits among missionaries.

This priest in Port Moresby was a one man band. He has now been replaced and moved on.

The AIDS centre at 16 mile was then looked after by nuns. Something stinks there. He was doing something reprehensible.

Has the real story been told of the priest shot in his bed at the Bomana Franciscan friary? Were the attackers intruders come to steal? Did they shoot the wrong man?

Or were they angry uncles, father and brothers come to rescue a young boy or girl?

There was a national priest arrested recently on charges of paedophile sex with boys he lured into his house.

The problem may not be solved with priests allowed to marry. Some were paedophiles before being ordained.

An expatriate priest in East Boroko, Port Moresby was moved on about 3 years ago after problems caused by allegations that he made homosexual advances to the assistant priest.

I have been a Catholic convert for 40 years. I can no longer accept membership in a paedophile church that stresses the authority of priests including the servants of Satan. Please click:

SEX ABUSE AT BOYS' TOWN

We had better ask Father.

What do you want us to do Father?

Whatever you want Father.

Bless me Father for I have sinned.

My child, you must not have carnal thoughts.

Say 10 Hail Mary's and 10 Our Fathers.

Bless you father.

My father was English and anti- Catholic. He would tell the family of the practice of Irish Catholic priests in hanging their black hat on the door knob of a house.

This was to tell the husband not to come in as his wife was being serviced. I would always disregard my father's story on being biased.

But in the paedophile stakes across the world, many paedophile priests do have Irish names. See the names in the blog above.

We may recall that 500 years ago, the English put bounties on the heads of Irish priests. When caught, priests were hung, drawn and quartered. Was there more to this than meets the eye? Or was it that the priest was the leader in the community?

To be hung, drawn and quartered, the victim was hung by the neck until almost dead. He was cut down and stretched on a rack. Then his stomach was cut open.

This is barbaric treatment. We saw Mel Gibson executed like this in the movie Braveheart.

We must not forget the paedophiles who have come to PNG in AusAID and the UN to have sex with boys and girls under the guise of HIV/AIDS awareness.

They just seem to move in and move out of PNG at times under promotion, particularly in the United Nations.

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START KIDS EARLY TO READ, WRITE AND SPEAK

I seem to have had success with teaching kids to read, write and speak. It all started with my children in Australia. From 1975, I started them on reading the Dr Seuss way.

It started when I was not happy that my first daughter could not read after one year at school. So I prepared a book of exercises.

cat, fat, mat, hat, rat, bat, sat

man, fan, ran, van, tan, can

ball, call, fall, hall, tall

funny, sunny, bunny
day, may, ray, hay, say, lay
play, pray, clay, way
did, hid, lid,
it, sit, fit, bit, hit, lit
fish, dish, wish

and many more.

Then we became creative just like Dr Seuss.

The cat lay on the hat.

See the fat rat on the mat

A man ran to a van with a can.

See funny bunny run to a cat on a hat

The fat man sat on the tall ball

I see the man fall on the mat

I will call the funny cat on the mat
I sit on the lid with a fat cat in the hat.
He eats fish on the dish.

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My Australian children learned quickly to read. My eldest seemed to benefit most and she is now a dentist. Other children are lawyers and a teacher.

My daughters in Papua New Guinea learned English quickly. The younger spoke only Tok Pisin for the first two years while she was away with her mother. Now she can read any text as the result of the Dr Seuss approach.

Both state that English is their first language. I am fluent in Tok Pisin but speak to them only in English.

They are now in Grade 7 and 8 and are moving on in their home language teaching program. Please click:

WRITE SWEET ENGLISH

There are reports on children who succeeded at school. The reason is that parents required their children to read a book a week and write a book review.

I will have to tie my daughters down and get them to do that. Perhaps this Christmas holiday will be the start.

Last year, there was a little girl of 2 years old living next to my family. Her name was MJ and her parents were Filippino and Papua New Guinean. MJ was bright but spoke little English.

Seated at their kitchen table, I would talk to her in a question-answer format. This is a standard language teaching technique. The question format often provides the format for the answer.

Every child in school should be interviewed by the teacher in this way. Other students are given work to do while 5 students are interviewed for 4 minutes each. Every child is interviewed at least once a week.

What is your name. My name is MJ.
How old are you? I am 2.
No you are not. You are 23.
No. I am 2.
Are you sure? Yes.
Your mother said you were 23. She is tricking.
What is your mother's name? Julie.
Is she from the Philippines? No. Papua New Guinea.
Where is your dad from? Philippines.
Do you go to school? No.
Why not? I am too little.
Do you go next year? No.
Why not? I am still little.
Do you have a sister? Yes.
What is her name? Kate.
Where does your daddy work? in town.

These were quite deep conversations for a small child. We would talk again next time with the same basic patterns repeated. Gradually the range of patterns were extended to dozens of responses.

Giving incorrect information helps the child to think and to discriminate true from false. The child learns that everything heard is not always true. You were born in China. No. I was born in Papua New Guinea.

We also went through picture books. She was learning a wide range of basic structures in question-answer format.

I used the same technique to teach Tok Pisin at the RAAF School of Languages.

Kolim nem bilong yu. Nem bilong mi John
Yu man bilong we? Mi bilong Australia.
As ples bilong yu Sydney? Nogat. As ples bilong mi Melbourne.
Melbourne i stap we? Melbourne i stap long Victoria.
Em i bikpela taun? Yes em i bikpela tru.
Em i taun bilong nambis? Yes em i taun bilong nambis.
Yu marit o nogat? Yes mi marit.
Yu gat pikinini o nogat? Yes mi gat.
Yu gat hamas pikinini? Mi gat 2pela pikinini.

Four weeks of question-answer conversations made most students skilled in all basic structures. Then the next step was for the students to do the asking.

Then MJ went to live in the Philippines. My daughters are forever phoning to talk to the family. We were told that MJ went on a TV program and carried a long conversation in clear English.

She was asked how she learned to speak English so sweetly. She said she had a friend in Papua New Guinea who taught her. He was a white man.

MEDICINS SANS FRONTIERES STRIKES AGAIN

Post Courier 12 November 2012 Nellie Setepano

No cure without accurate diagnosis

There is a report about the high levels of social violence in the Papua New Guinea highlands. But the community is being brain washed into accepting that the violence is all about men to women.

Dr Karunaka is reported to have told Radio Australia that people come to the clinics with wounds from all sorts of violence.

Again by omissions, readers are fooled into believing that violence is man to woman only. Reality in the highlands is that men and women share the violence.

We read of a woman raped six times. We have to ask about her lifestyle. Is she a sex worker? Is she mentally disabled? Is she telling lies? Are the counsellors telling lies?

There are women who will not argue with a man without a rock in their hand, a bush knife or kitchen knife.

A favoured punishment that can be seen by all is for a rock to smash the front window of husband's new car. The girl friend will see it too, even if he does not have one.

The best husbands are white men. They are cowards and will not fight back. They just want to talk rather than fight. This is a view held by some women. 

White men have no wantoks to come around to defend them if the wife brings her uncles and brothers to bash the husband up.

They are also frightened with threats of deportation. White men are basically stupid as well as cowards. They believe anything.

Men may often bash a wife purely in self defence. His fist reached her face before her rock reached his skull. His punch made her let go of his testicles. But women are bashed by cruel husbands too.

Readers are told that between September 2009 and October 2011, Medicins Sans Frontieres (MSF) and Tari hospitals reported 1471 survivors of intimate partner violence.

That is less than two per day. No mention is made of the ratio of men to women. In the highlands, there is a high level of violence of women towards their men.

This is what you will get if you are ever unfaithful. Whack.

There are highlands women who bash their husband even on the suspicion of infidelity. It is a strategy designed to intimidate even good husbands from ever thinking of adultery.

In the Enga Province, there are reports of women and girls drinking homebrew and smoking marijuana. That would help the violence. Many women in villages prefer to play cards than cook the evening meal.

MSF appears to have an anti-man gay and lesbian agenda.  The one time leader of the Australian gays  and lesbians Professor Michael Toole is a director of MSF.

Remember Nellie Setepano. She was the journalist who wrote last year that 60% of PNG men confess to group sex that was most likely gang rape. She is forgiven as she got that statistic from MSF.

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