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LSPNG Annual Conference Tentative Program
UoG, 12-14 September 2017
Monday 11 September
Arrival of Participants & Registration
8.00 -10:00am Registration
10.00 –5:00pm Morning Tea & Field Trip
6.30 pm -9.30pm Dinner - PNG Cuisine. TBA
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Day 1: Tuesday 12 September
8.00-9.00 Late Registration
OFFICIAL OPENING
MC TBA
9.00 – 9.20 Welcome Performance for LSPNG 2017 Conference, Mark Solon
Auditorium (MSA)
9.20 – 9.30 Welcome Address by the Vice Chancellor of the University of Goroka,
Professor Musawe Sinebare
9.30 – 10.00 LSPNG President - Mr. Sakarepe Kamene –University of Papua New
Guinea
10.00-10.30 A Representative from National Literacy Secretariat/National Department
of Education (TBA)
10.30 – 11.00 Morning Tea
11.00 – 11.30 The A/Executive Dean of School of Humanities University of Goroka-Mr.
Sakaya Botu
11.30 – 12.00 Keynote Speaker-Adjunct Prof. Craig Volker-"Adjunct Professor, the
Cairns Institute, James Cook University
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12.00 -1.30 Lunch & Performance by UoG Students
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Session One
Chairperson: Mr. Robert Petterson
1.30-2.00 Dr. Kilala Devette-Chee – The National Research Institute.
Pidgins & Creoles in Education: A Study into the Use of Tok Pisin
in Papua New Guinea Primary Schools.
2.00-2.30 Prof Péter Maitz, Siegwalt Lindenfelser, & Adjunct Prof. Craig Alan
Volker- University of Augsburg - The Creoleness of Rabaul Creole German"?
2.30 -3.00 Prof. Stefan Engelberg - University of Mannheim. An Etymological Internet
Dictionary of Words of German Origin in Tok Pisin
3.00-3.30 Afternoon Tea
Chairperson: Professor Mark Solon
3.30-4.00 Dr. Richard Gaffney –Sacred Heart Teacher’s College, Bomana- Port Moresby.
English as a Distant Language: Investigation of Teachers Understanding
4.00-4.30 Dr. G. Hane-Nou, Mrs. Olga. Temple & Mr. Sakarape Kamene - University
of Papua New Guinea, Effect of Age of Onset (AO) of Second Language
Acquisition (SLA) on the Learning Outcomes of National High School (NHS)
Students in Papua New Guinea
4.30-5.00 Ms. Thecla Maim Koeba – PNG Education Institute - Teachers’ Perceptions of
the Jolly Phonics Program Initiated in 2013 in NCD State Elementary and
Primary Schools and its Impact on Students’ Literacy Level
5.00 – 5.30 Mr. Norris Wangina -PNG Education Institute - Research on Communication in
Selected English Classes in Semi-Rural Primary Schools in Papua New Guinea
6.00-9.00 Welcome Dinner – UoG Restaurant
Day 2: Wednesday 13 September
Session Two
Chairperson: Mr. Sakarape Kamene
8.30-9.00 Prof. Irene Rapp University of Ttibingen - & Prof. Stefan Engelberg -
University of Mannheim. The Role of Metaphors for Lexical Change in Pidgin
and Non-pidgin Languages
9.00-9.30 Ms. Selmina Rumawak – Monash University. Attitudes towards Tok Pisin: A
Comparative Study of Male and Female Papua New Guinean Students in
Melbourne
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9.30-10.00 Mr. Robert and Mrs. Deborah Petterson – SIL. Purari Orthography
Development and Literacy
10.00-10.30 Dr. Albert Davletshin - Vladivostok University. Case Marking in the Nukeria
language and its Development: Interplay of Semantics and Phonology
10.30-11.00 Morning Tea
Chairperson: Dr. Friedel Frowein
11.00-11.30 Prof. Craig Alan Volker --"Adjunct Professor, the Cairns Institute, James Cook
University & Jakob Fugger Visiting Professor, University of Augsburg" The Rise
and Fall of the German Language in PNG
11.30-12.00 Prof. Dr. Kerstin Knopf - University of Bremen. German Colonialism and the
Legacy of Texts: Translating an Ethnographic Text on “Neu-Mecklenburg.
12.00-1.30 Lunch & Performance by UoG International Students
Chairperson: Adjunct Professor Craig Volker
1.30-2.00 Dr. Friedel Frowein- University of Goroka. Walk Around the Clock: The
Shaping of a (Counter) Clockwise Distinction in Siar Demonstratives
2.00-2.30 Ms. Jennifer Boer – University of Southern Cross. Clinical Linguistics and
Developmental Phonology Sampling.
2.30-3.00 Associate Professor Patricia Paraide –Divine Word University. The Value of
Bilingual Education
3.00-3.30 Afternoon Tea
Chairperson: Professor Don Niles
3.30-4.00 Ms. Maria Lord – SIL- Ukarumpa. Chicken or Egg? The Relationship of Tune
and Lyrics in a Sepik Music Genre
4.00-4.30 Dr. Joseph Lingawa Kekeya – Divine Word University. Culture and Language
are one in a Same and Facilitate Learning and Development
4.30-5.00 Mr. Cláudio da Silva – University of Coimbra, Portugal. A Maani Birds and
Nalik Culture: Voices of the Students of the Madina Primary
Chairperson: Dr. Jane Awi
5.00 – 5.30 Postgraduate Students (University of Goroka)
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7.00-9.00 Variety Night by UoG Students
Day 3: Thursday 14 September
Session Three:
Chairperson: Dr. Thamarai Selvi
8.00-8.30 Prof. Don Niles –Institute of PNG Studies.“When is a TifaNot a Kundu?
Semantic Limits in Considering the Drums to Papua New Guinea’s West”
8.30-9.00 Ms. May Huvi – Devare High School. ‘La’ and ‘e’: What are Their Roles in the
Maututu Dialect of the Nakanai Language of West New Britain Province
9.00-9.30 Mr. Philip Tama- University of Goroka. Case Marking in Taeme
9.30-10.00 Mr. Richard Masese - Dialectal differences between North and South Fore
Dialect in Eastern Highlands Province
10.00-10.30 Ms. Sylvia Ulai – PNG Education Institute. The Role of Literacy and Education
in Empowering Women in Addressing Domestic Violence Issues in Urban
Settlements of Lae City
10.30 - 11.00 Morning Tea
11.00 -11.45 Panel Discussion on the Conference - Mrs. Olga Temple
11.45-12.00 Closing Remark by Head of Division - Mrs. Helen Vetunawa
12.00-1.30 Lunch & Performance UoG Students
1.30-3.00 AGM – Chaired by the President of LSPNG, Mr. Sakarepe Kamene
3.00 – 6.00 Free time / Organized Tour around Goroka Town (Optional)
6.30 – 9.00 Closing Dinner – MSA Backdrop, UoG
