MATAI PART 1: PROPOSAL TEMPLATE UU 204 Pacific Worlds

Student Name: Mohammed Rehan Ali

Student ID: S11208504

Vaka Leader: Dr. Frank Thomas

(Respond in black Calibri, 12 size font, 1.5 spacing over sections labelled ‘Type here’) Word limit: 500
RSD
Require
Frame Student Response
ments
work
1. Question Question:
& Topic
Question 4; Discuss + create a matai highlighting the challenges of globalization in
Select your Pacific Island community in relation to identity.
ONE
question
from the Topic:
EMBARK

7 MATAI Loss Of Mother Tongue Due To Globalization Impacting My Identity.

questions

State a
specific
topic for
the
selected
question

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2. Introduction:
Introdu
ction My language is an important aspect of my life that defines my identity as to who I
Provide a am. I respect the vulnerability and desire to protect my real identity, however, as
brief we continuously face globalization, I have personally fallen victim to the loss of
introducti identity due to the loss of language (my mother tongue) to the English language
on of your perceived as the best of the best and with aspects of globalization that are
topic – seriously impacting towards the segregation of my mother tongue.
what do
you hope to
I have chosen this topic because I can deeply and wholeheartedly relate this to my
achieve?
own self as I was someone who had lost my language (in terms of segregating it)
to the language, people perceived as the most supreme.

By doing this matai, I am hoping to highlight how our society is so blindfolded

with globalization that we compromise our identity for it. I also wish to raise
awareness as a form of an eye-opener of how I fell victim to suppression and lost
my language to school rules, movies, music, and people perceiving speaking other
languages as superior over the mother tongue which, I personally was victimized
by as the result of globalization. This led me to wear a “mask” to show/portray
that I move along with time but within I felt like my inner self was “dying out”.
Thus, with the awareness being made, people will be willing to take off the
blindfold of globalization and embrace their language as their identity rather than
feeling shameful (as I used to get).

3. Briefly Creative product & medium:

discuss
A short drama (audiovisual) is the best way to describe ways that globalization
your
made me put on the “mask” of English and also describe the suppression I felt.
creative
The drama will be less than 5 minutes with me being the main character (actor).
product
& the To supplement this, I would make a simple drawing that relates closely to the idea
medium behind the drama and what I had really faced. NOTE; I will ensure to have good
EVALUATE &

in which lighting, quality and will have sub-titles for drama.

REFLECT

you will
present it
(video
recording,
photo
collage,
drawing,
comic
strips,
poem etc.)

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4. Timeline Timeline:
Suggest a  Beginning: By week 9 (20/09/2023), I will finalize the drama script even though I
timeline do have a tentative script written currently that requires editing and final touch-
for the 3 ups. Once finalized with the script, I would have actors in drama to rehearse
ORGANIZE & MANAGE

productio every afternoon. Also, a rough sketch of what the drawing will portray will be
n stages
made.

 Middle:I hope to shoot the drama with the characters by 30/09/2023. Also, my
drawing should be done by then.

 Final:I hope to get the editing part of the drama done in a week around
06/10/2023. This will include adding a subtitle to my drama, and editing it to be
5 minutes or less. Once this is done, I will upload to YouTube as I do not have to
spend much time as I already have an account. Also, the drawing should now be
ready.

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5. Where? How?
Referenc  Internet, I will view websites that talk about the loss of language due to
es globalization such as websites, and news websites as most of the local
Explain websites share the topic closely. Also from the internet, Google Scholar
where & will be used.
how
informatio  Library, I will access the database of the USP library to get peer-reviewed
n will be articles such as J-Stor, and Pro Quest.
collected
(sources)  Videos, I will watch videos that are available to get drama up the par and
List also to get information, not only for the content, but also for making a
possible good video aspect such as how to shoot better, have better lighting to
references capture attention will also be viewed.
(sources)
&  Books and archives are also some of the resources I will refer to from the
preferred
university campus library and Suva City Library.
referencing
style
Reference list & style: (1 or 2)
COMMUNICATE & APPLY

The referencing style I am well versed with is the APA referencing style.

Some possible sources;

Grimes, J. E. (1995). Language Endangerment in the

Pacific. Oceanic Linguistics, 34(1), 1–12.
https://doi.org/10.2307/3623108

Willans, F., & Jukes, A. (2017). How far can the language ecology
metaphor take us?: A Pacific perspective on language vitality
(Response to Mufwene). Language, 93(4), e263-e274.
Available at https://muse.jhu.edu/article/680470
[Accessed: 16th September 2023]

Tolkach, D., & Pratt, S. (2021). Globalisation and cultural change in

Pacific Island countries: the role of tourism. Tourism Geographies,
23(3), 371-396.
Available at:
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/14616688.2019.1625071
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[Accessed: 16th September 2023]

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