Indigenous College of Education and Research
The Unaipon School
The Unaipon School
Summer School
The Pitjantjatjara Language Summer School will benefit people who have contact with Pitjantjatjara people in the course of their work. People completing the summer school should be able to enter into elementary conversations with Pitjantjatjara people. There will also be historical and cross-cultural information within the curriculum.
Consisting of oral practice, elementary vocabulary, basic grammar and written exercises the School will be conducted with sessions of role play with an emphasis on oral fluency, small group sessions for revision and practice or oral language and grammar sessions. It will provide structures on which students can build further progress in the language.
By the end of the school, students should be familiar with a basic vocabulary of approximately 300 words, be familiar with the sounds of the language and able to reproduce them, and have a basic grammatical knowledge with an understanding of the four noun and four verb classes and four or five tenses of the verbs in each class, and should be able to converse in simple sentences.
Enquiries are now being taken for the next Summer School to be held in
February (subject to demand). Please email your expression of interest
to:
Ms Taryn Pool
taryn.pool@unisa.edu.au
Tel: (08) 8302 9194
The
University of South Australia and its antecedents have a history of
teaching Pitjantjatjara Language since 1975. Before then, students
enrolled in Aboriginal Studies subjects could attend Pitjantjatjara
Summer Schools conducted by the University of Adelaide.
As there were inquires from prospective students who were not enrolled
in Degrees at the University, one week Summer Schools were commenced in
January 1993. They have been conducted annually, except for 1999, ever
since. In 1998 the Summer School was then extended to a two week course.
Former students have included teachers from Anangu schools,
community workers, land management officers, anthropologists, nurses,
geologists, prison officers and current University students. As well as
a number of Aboriginal people who work in areas such as health,
education, police, courts, native title and drug counselling.
For enquiries please contact:
Taryn Poole
