Literacy Teaching in Tongan

Introduction

This series of video teaching programmes was primarily designed to educate those who are interested in learning and studying to speak and write the Tongan language. Our target audience includes people who are interested in the Tongan language, but who have not had the opportunity to obtain any formal teaching of the Tongan language. We also target Tongan parents in New Zealand and other foreign countries who have no teaching background, but who want to be provided with materials to help them teach their children to speak Tongan. This is also aimed at people who have no language educational background or foreigners but are interested in the Tongan language.

While we have made several changes to how our language should be taught that might raise some eyebrows, especially our Tongan alphabet, this programme is not intended to dispute the creations of the traditional alphabet. I believed there were good reasons behind the original alphabet. We will deal with the changes we made in more details in some of our videos which follow.  This is not an attempt to initiate an academic review of the Tongan alphabet and grammar. We leave those tasks to our Tongan grammarians and linguists, and we will welcome any feedback from them.

These digital lessons were also designed to provide an internet community forum for the Tongan language which will allow Tongan and other ethnicities’ experts and scholars to share with us their experiences in the Tongan language. These are proficient people who have abundant know-how in the Tongan language, but have not had the opportunity to share their experiences with others who needed them. We have created that place for you and here it is.  You are invited you to share with us  by leaving comments on the comment sections of these videos and posts. If you have any questions or queries about the Tongan language or our lessons you are invited to leave your concerns or even compliments in the comment sections as well. We will undertake to read and take all comments and feedback seriously and will response in due course. Online Community Forum

The skills of teaching provided in these online classes rely on classroom and technical experiences and knowledge gathered by Mr Kalino Lātū, the founder of this programme, who taught in Tonga for more than a decade. Mr Lātū, the founder of Ta’angafonua Trust and Kaniva Tonga News and Entertainment, graduated in 1992 with a Diploma in Education from the Tonga Teachers’ Training College, now known as Tonga Institute of Educations (TIHE) to teach at secondary schools level. He taught at colleges as well as primary schools in Tonga.

This teaching programme  will feature about 72 separates three-minute video clips. We would like to take this opportunity to thank the New Zealand  Ministry for Pacific Peoples for funding this programme under its The Provider Languages Fund. For our viewers, we invite you to go and watch our video two or video number VT-Two after this.

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