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Journal of Undergraduate Research

Keywords

linguistic research, Fijian language, grammar instruction materials

College

Humanities

Department

English

Abstract

For nearly fifty years, Fiji has been the only major South Pacific LDS mission without its own Missionary Training Center (MTC) language program. For this reason, missionaries have gone without language skills and their ability to do missionary work was limited. Today, the MTC has a fledgling program that struggles to teach its missionaries the language. The program=s major challenge was the lack of adequate language lesson materials. As a return missionary from Fiji and founder of its MTC language training program, I have a strong love for the people and an intense interest in improving the instructional methods used to teach missionaries Fijian. The purpose of this project was to research the Fijian language and report my results in the form of grammar lessons. These lessons fill a gap in current grammar instruction materials, specifically materials for missionaries going to the Fijian Islands.

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