Tok Pisin 1
UndergraduateANU-TOKP10022025
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- Study method
- 100% online
- Assessments
- 100% online
- Entry requirements
- Prior study needed
- Duration
- 14 weeks
- Start dates
- 17 Feb 2025
- Loan available
- FEE-HELP available
Tok Pisin 1
About this subject
Upon successful completion, students will have the knowledge and skills to:
- Recognise and pronounce all Tok Pisin vowels, consonants, with appropriate intonation.
- Use an active vocabulary of around 1000 items.
- Recognise and produce basic phrase and sentence structures to allow short conversations and the reading, writing, and translation of short, basic texts.
- Communicate in speaking and writing, using simple phrases and sentences, on such topics as greetings, giving and understanding instructions, questions and answers about personal details statements, and the quantity and quality of things they encounter in everyday life.
- Demonstrate an understanding of the culture and everyday life of Papua New Guinea including work, travel, and family relationships.
- What is Tok Pisin? Introductory lessons: greetings, introducing yourself, goodbyes, basic expressions, vocabulary practice 1, song.
- Focus lessons, conversations, pronunciation (vowels), vocabulary drills, vocabulary practice 2, grammar points, exercises, vocabulary practice 3, song, short audio interviews, questions, vocabulary practice 4, learning outcome checklist, following week's learning themes, song.
- Overview, focus lessons, short conversations, vocabulary practice 1, song, pronunciation (consonants) vocabulary drills, vocabulary practice 2 song.
- Grammar points, exercises, vocabulary practice 3, song, audio short interviews, questions, vocabulary practice 4, poem, learning outcome checklist, following week's learning themes, song.
- Overview, focus lessons, short conversations, vocabulary practice 1, song, pronunciation (consonant sequences), vocabulary drills, song, vocabulary practice 2.
- Grammar points, exercises, practice drills, vocabulary practice 3, song, listening of short audio interviews, questions, vocabulary practice 4, learning outcome checklist, following week's learning themes, bugle call.
- Overview, focus lessons, conversations, conversation notes, vocabulary practice 1, song, vocabulary drills, song, vocabulary practice 2.
- Grammar points, practice drills, vocabulary practice 3, flute, audio listening of short texts, questions, vocabulary practice 4, learning outcome checklist, following week's learning themes, taxi operator.
- Overview, focus lessons, conversations, vocabulary practice 1, song, vocabulary drills, vocabulary practice 2, song, exercises.
- Grammar points, practice exercises, vocabulary practice 3, song, audio excerpts, questions, vocabulary practice 4, learning outcome checklist, following week's learning themes, yodel.
- Overview, focus lessons, conversations, vocabulary practice 1, song, vocabulary drills, supplementary exercises, vocabulary practice 2, song.
- Grammar points, practice exercises, vocabulary practice 3, song, audio listening of short interview texts, questions, vocabulary practice 4, learning outcome checklist, cartoon, audio listening (short text).
Tok Pisin is an official language of Papua New Guinea, and is the most commonly and widely used language in the country with approximately 4 million native speakers. By learning Tok Pisin, students will gain a deeper understanding of the rich cultures, histories and societies of the people of Papua New Guinea and surrounding areas of the Pacific.
In this introductory course, students will gain a practical command of beginner spoken Tok Pisin, and an elementary capacity to read various types of texts in Tok Pisin with the help of a dictionary. By the end of the course, students should have an active vocabulary of approximately 1000 of the most frequently used and useful words in Tok Pisin. Students will have covered the main features in a grammar of Tok Pisin, and will have a command of the pronunciation of the language.
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- 4 x Quizzes cover topics covered (10%)
- 4x Written Assessments.Each assessment will contain multiple questions covering translation, reading comprehension, grammar, composition etc. The length will be up to 4 pages (A4). (20%)
- Based on the quality of each student's participation in in-class exercises, and completion of weekly homework tasks, including contributing to our class Tok Pisin Glossary. (10%)
- Oral Test: 1. Short interview/conversation/role play (reading & answering questions) (5 min) (20%)
- Oral Test 2: Short interview/conversation/role play (10mins) (30%)
- Translation: A brief translation task (around 100-150 words). (10%)
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Entry requirements
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This is a subject for beginners. Students with prior knowledge of the language will be required to take a placement test. Students are not permitted to enrol in a subject that is lower than the level they achieve in the placement test, or a lower level than a subject they have already completed.
Additional requirements
- Equipment requirements - To successfully engage in this course students will need the following: • Laptop or computer • Computer camera (either inbuilt or webcam) • Headset with microphone • Mozilla Firefox or Google Chrome browser • Reliable internet access • Access to a scanner or smartphone
- Other requirements - Each week students are expected to study for five hours as follows: 1. 90 minutes, before online class, working on the written and audio materials for the week, and, memorising the written and spoken forms of that week’s vocabulary 2. 90 minutes, participating in one 90 minute online class 3. 90 minutes, completing online follow-up exercises regarding listening, speaking, reading and writing skills and vocabulary 4. 30 minutes, completing weekly assessment and quiz. It is also expected that students should spend at least 5 hours of individual study practicing the week’s written and spoken language forms and vocabulary and reviewing feedback on their work. The total workload for the course is 130 hours including independent study
Study load
- 0.125 EFTSL
- This is in the range of 10 to 12 hours of study each week.
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