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- PublicationApma BookletsSchneider has compiled three resource booklets on local birds, plants, and fish for the Apma-speaking community. The booklets contain drawings, accompanied by word-level descriptions. The drawings were sourced from the Vanuatu Cultural Centre in Port Vila. The words accompanying each drawing, and decisions about appropriate spellings for each word, are based on Schneider's ongoing research on the Apma language. To produce these books, research into Apma's morphology (word structure) and phonology (sound system) was particularly necessary.
- PublicationApma ResourcesSchneider has created three resources for elementary school children to facilitate their acquisition of literacy in the Apma language: an alphabet book, an alphabet poster, and a poster about Apma's vowel and consonant combinations. Both book and poster present each letter of the Apma alphabet one by one, with an accompanying photograph or drawing, and a word beginning with the sound represented by each letter. The book also includes translations into Bislama (Vanuatu's lingua franca). The vowel and consonant poster presents the possible combinations of these sounds. These resources are based on Schneider's ongoing work on the Apma language. To produce them, research into Apma's phonology (sound system) and phonotactic structure (possible combinations of sounds) was particularly necessary.