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ng:inherit;font-family:"Merriweather Sans","Open Sans",Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:inherit;margin:10px;overflow:visible;outline:none;color:rgb(211,211,211);background:rgb(68,68,68);border-width:1px;border-style:solid;border-color:rgb(0,0,0);text-align:left;padding:0px 10px;height:30px;width:110px;border-radius:5px"></button></div></div></div></div><div class="gmail-sics-component__caption__top-line" style="box-sizing:inherit;display:flex;margin:0px 0px 5px"><span class="gmail-sics-component__caption__icon-text" style="box-sizing:inherit;font-size:0.88235rem;line-height:1;display:block;width:298.625px;height:1em;color:rgb(159,159,159);text-transform:uppercase;margin-left:0.75em"></span><cite class="gmail-sics-component__caption__producer" style="box-sizing:inherit;display:block;width:298.625px;height:1em;line-height:1;color:rgb(162,174,180);font-style:normal;text-transform:uppercase;margin-left:0.75em;font-size:10px;text-align:right">CHRIS SKELTON/STUFF</cite></div><div class="gmail-sics-component__caption__caption" style="box-sizing:inherit;width:616px;font-size:14px;border-bottom:1px solid rgb(235,238,240);padding:0px 0px 0.58824em;line-height:1.41176em;color:rgb(115,120,123)">Soreta Felise of south Auckland's Finlayson Park School says bilingual teachers need better support from the government.</div></div></span><span class="gmail-sics-component__story__body gmail-sics-component__story__body--nativform" style="box-sizing:inherit;font-size:17px;line-height:1.45"><p class="gmail-sics-component__html-injector gmail-sics-component__story__intro gmail-sics-component__story__paragraph" style="box-sizing:inherit;line-height:1.45;margin:0px 0px 0.7rem;padding:0px;color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:"Merriweather Sans","Open Sans",Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif">Soreta Felise spends countless hours gluing printed out Samoan words over the original English text of children's books.</p><p class="gmail-sics-component__html-injector gmail-sics-component__story__paragraph" style="box-sizing:inherit;line-height:1.45;margin:0px 0px 0.7rem;padding:0px;color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:"Merriweather Sans","Open Sans",Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif">It's in her own time, but the bilingual Samoan teacher at south Auckland's Finlayson Park School says "I just have to" because there aren't enough resources for Pasifika language units available in New Zealand.</p><p class="gmail-sics-component__html-injector gmail-sics-component__story__paragraph" style="box-sizing:inherit;line-height:1.45;margin:0px 0px 0.7rem;padding:0px;color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:"Merriweather Sans","Open Sans",Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif">Felise, 59, wants the government to either ramp up its support of Pasifika bilingual education – or compensate the teachers compelled to make course materials essentially from scratch.</p><div class="gmail-sics-component__story-image__image-wrapper" style="box-sizing:inherit;width:616px;text-align:center;overflow:hidden;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><img class="gmail-sics-component__story-image__image--not-gallery" src="https://resources.stuff.co.nz/content/dam/images/1/v/k/v/5/p/image.related.StuffLandscapeSixteenByNine.710x400.1vj9id.png/1560647661523.jpg" alt="Soreta Felise says she puts in the extra hours because she can't bear to see students "swimming without hope"." style="box-sizing: inherit; border-style: none; width: 616px; display: inline-block; max-width: 100%;"></div><div class="gmail-sics-component__caption__top-line" style="box-sizing:inherit;display:flex;margin:0px 0px 5px"><span class="gmail-sics-component__caption__icon-text" style="box-sizing:inherit;font-size:0.88235rem;line-height:1;display:block;width:298.625px;height:1em;color:rgb(159,159,159);text-transform:uppercase;margin-left:0.75em"></span><cite class="gmail-sics-component__caption__producer" style="box-sizing:inherit;display:block;width:298.625px;height:1em;line-height:1;color:rgb(162,174,180);font-style:normal;text-transform:uppercase;margin-left:0.75em;font-size:10px;text-align:right">CHRIS SKELTON / STUFF</cite></div><div class="gmail-sics-component__caption__caption" style="box-sizing:inherit;width:616px;font-size:14px;border-bottom:1px solid rgb(235,238,240);padding:0px 0px 0.58824em;line-height:1.41176em;color:rgb(115,120,123)">Soreta Felise says she puts in the extra hours because she can't bear to see students "swimming without hope".</div><p class="gmail-sics-component__html-injector gmail-sics-component__story__paragraph" style="box-sizing:inherit;line-height:1.45;margin:0px 0px 0.7rem;padding:0px;color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:"Merriweather Sans","Open Sans",Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif">Ministry of Education entablement and support sector deputy secretary Katrina Casey confirmed the ministry was aware of the issue.</p><div id="gmail-fourth-par-video" class="gmail-sics-component__oovvuu-recommendation" style="box-sizing:inherit;max-width:1150px;margin-left:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-right:0px;padding-top:0.7rem;color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:"Merriweather Sans","Open Sans",Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif"></div><p class="gmail-sics-component__html-injector gmail-sics-component__story__paragraph" style="box-sizing:inherit;line-height:1.45;margin:0px 0px 0.7rem;padding:0px;color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:"Merriweather Sans","Open Sans",Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif"><span style="box-sizing:inherit;font-weight:600">READ MORE:<br style="box-sizing:inherit">* <a href="https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/education/105705984/plans-to-build-a-bilingual-new-zealand-a-bold-step?rm=m" style="box-sizing:inherit;background-color:transparent;color:rgb(10,89,141);text-decoration-line:none">Plans to build a bilingual New Zealand a 'bold step'</a><br style="box-sizing:inherit">* <a href="https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/education/104130661/mori-no-longer-extracurricular-as-bilingual-school-finds-teacher?rm=m" style="box-sizing:inherit;background-color:transparent;color:rgb(10,89,141);text-decoration-line:none">Māori no longer 'extra-curricular' as bilingual school finds teacher</a><br style="box-sizing:inherit">* <a href="https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/education/98243957/call-for-a-national-languages-policy-to-preserve-childrens-bilingual-skills?rm=m" style="box-sizing:inherit;background-color:transparent;color:rgb(10,89,141);text-decoration-line:none">Call for a national languages policy to preserve children's bilingual skills</a></span></p><p class="gmail-sics-component__html-injector gmail-sics-component__story__paragraph" style="box-sizing:inherit;line-height:1.45;margin:0px 0px 0.7rem;padding:0px;color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:"Merriweather Sans","Open Sans",Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif">"We acknowledge the time and effort of these teachers and principals to provide bilingual opportunities," she said.</p><span style="box-sizing:inherit;line-height:1.45;padding-top:0.7rem;color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:"Merriweather Sans","Open Sans",Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif"></span><div class="gmail-display-ad--border-container" style="box-sizing:inherit;color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:"Merriweather Sans","Open Sans",Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;border-top:1px solid rgb(225,225,225);border-bottom:1px solid rgb(225,225,225);margin-bottom:15px"><div class="gmail-sics-component__ad-space gmail-sics-storybody gmail-agnostic-display" style="box-sizing:inherit;display:table;margin:10px auto 30px"><p class="gmail-sics-component__ad-space__caption" style="box-sizing:inherit;font-size:0.6rem;line-height:1.45;margin:0px;padding:0px;text-transform:uppercase;text-align:center;color:rgb(175,190,198)">ADVERTISEMENT</p><div class="gmail-sics-component__ad-space__content" style="box-sizing:inherit"><div class="gmail-nativform-item" id="gmail-gpt_2998" style="box-sizing:inherit;border-top:none;border-bottom:none"><div id="gmail-google_ads_iframe_/6674/onl.stuff.national/education_4__container__" style="box-sizing:inherit;border:0pt none"></div></div></div><a class="gmail-sics-component__ad-space__advertise-with-us" href="https://advertise.stuff.co.nz/" style="box-sizing:inherit;background-color:transparent;color:rgb(175,190,198);text-decoration-line:none;font-size:0.6rem;font-style:italic">Advertise with Stuff</a></div></div><p class="gmail-sics-component__html-injector gmail-sics-component__story__paragraph" style="box-sizing:inherit;line-height:1.45;margin:0px 0px 0.7rem;padding:0px;color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:"Merriweather Sans","Open Sans",Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif">National scrapped the popular 'Tupu' bilingual language series in 2010. Last year Labour introduced a new series, called Dual Language, but it only caters to year four students and younger.</p><br class="gmail-Apple-interchange-newline"></span></div><div><br></div>-- <br><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature">=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+<br><br> Harold F. Schiffman<br><br>Professor Emeritus of <br> Dravidian Linguistics and Culture <br>Dept. of South Asia Studies                     <br>University of Pennsylvania<br>Philadelphia, PA 19104-6305<br><br>Phone:  (215) 898-7475<br>Fax:  (215) 573-2138                                      <br><br>Email:  <a href="mailto:haroldfs@gmail.com" target="_blank">haroldfs@gmail.com</a><br><a href="http://ccat.sas.upenn.edu/~haroldfs/" target="_blank">http://ccat.sas.upenn.edu/~haroldfs/</a>    <br><br>-------------------------------------------------</div></div>