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Showing 1 to 16 of 16 for “"Māori language"”.
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Te Whare Tāhuhu Kōrero o Hauraki Revitalising 'Traditional' Māori Language of Hauraki
He nui ngā tūmomo reo o te Māori. Ko te reo tuauriuri whāioio tērā, ko te reo ōkawa tērā, ko te reo ōpaki tērā, ko ngā mita, ko ngā kīwaha, ko ngā whakataukī me ngā whakatauākī a ngā iwi puta noa i te motu. I roto i ngā tau maha kua taha ake, kua tāharahara te reo Māori, kua mimiti haere. Hei ātete …
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Mā te hangarau te oranga o te reo Māori e tautoko ai? Can technology support the long-term health of the Māori language?
… to support the ongoing health of an endangered language? Since the late twentieth century unprecedented and substantial social changes have been propelled by advances in contemporary technologies. Continuous connectivity harnessing digital communication, mass media and social networking has …
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Kia mate rā anō a Tama-nui-te-rā: reversing language shift in Kōhanga reo
This thesis focuses on reversing language shift (RLS) efforts via the revernacularisation of te reo Māori (the Māori language) in Te Amokura Kōhanga Reo (Māori language nest). J. Fishman’s (2001a) graded intergenerational disruption scale (GIDS), and M. Durie’s (2001, 2003) discussions on Māori …
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Aro mai aro atu: Raising Māori-medium students' academic oral language proficiency
… worked systematically to eradicate the language and culture of the indigenous people of Aotearoa / New Zealand, and, by the late 1960s, the death of the Māori language was being predicted by leading linguists. Māori leaders responded in the 1980s with language regeneration initiatives …
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Kia Whai Reo Te Wao
The Māori language has been in a constant state of change and evolution since the arrival of the ancestors of Māori to New Zealand. The environment known by traditional Māori was vastly different to that known today. Daily tasks and conversation related greatly to providing food which relied on …
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Kia matatau ki te reo: Factors influencing the development of proficiency in te reo Māori with adult learners
… the question: what factors help or hinder adult Māori second language learners to become proficient speakers of te reo Māori? I ask this question at a moment in history when te reo, like other indigenous languages, sits on the edge of a precipice in terms of its survival as a living language. …
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Tīhei Mauri Ora: Negotiating primary school teachers' personal and professional identities as Māori
Colonial attitudes that positioned Māori language, knowledge and pedagogy as inferior and deficient continue to impact on 21st century primary school contexts in Aotearoa/New Zealand. They continue to impact particularly on the personal and professional identities and experiences of Māori teachers …
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Te pā harakeke: Educational success and kōhanga reo
… of living and being in the world. Indigenous language immersion settings, such as kōhanga reo (Māori immersion “language nests” for children from birth to six years old in Aotearoa New Zealand), have emerged in response to the desires of Indigenous peoples to retain their knowledge, language, …
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Digital Taniwha: Growing Māori participation in the IT industry
… factors on the participation levels of Māori (indigenous people of New Zealand) in the national IT industry. It particularly focusses on Māori IT professionals and why their participation in IT sector events and activities are not as visible as non-Māori. The researcher, who is also a …
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Ko te reo Māori te tatau ki te ao: Rautaki reo Māori ki Te Kura Matatini ki Otago
… I mua i te taenga mai o te Pākehā, ko te reo Māori te reo i mōhio whānuitia ki Aotearoa nei. Engari i mua i te mutunga o te rautau 19, ko te reo Pākehā kē te reo i mōhio whānuitia ki Aotearoa (Rewi, 2012), tae noa ki te tau 1950, kua whakamāoritia te reo Pākehā (King, 2003). Ko te āwangawanga …
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An interface of mātauranga Māori and archaeology to generate a whakapapa of pā tawhito
Mātauranga Māori (Māori knowledge, epistemology) is foundational to iwi-Māori pasts and is essential to generating new knowledge about those pasts. Archaeology (the study of the physical remains of past human activity) is also an invaluable tool in understanding human history in Aotearoa New …
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The impact of childhood homelessness in Aotearoa’s education spaces: Educators’ ever-expanding roles with children and whānau
… there was a focus on “Hauora” (an Indigenous Māori language term for holistic well-being) when working with children impacted by homelessness, it was difficult for children to focus on or make progress in their academic learning. A key finding in this research was that strong relationships …
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The Application of Critical Discourse Theory: A Criterion-Referenced Analysis of Reports Relating to Language Revitalisation in Australia and New Zealand
The discipline of language policy and planning (LPP) is often proposed as a viable tool for language revitalisation. However, the conventional paradigm upon which LPP is based is inadequate for such an inherently political, contentious and problematic area of social policy, and does not address the …