To Value a language is to Empower

Te Kura Roa

•-Whaihua – Community responsiveness

•-Waiaro – State responsiveness

Reorientation

Māori Language Strategy (2003)

• 1- increase numbers;• 2- improve proficiency;• 3- increase situations;• 4- ensure its use for the full range of modern

activities ; and• 5- foster positive attitudes bilingualism becomes a

valued part of New Zealand society

Reorientation

Reorientation: Increase Numbers & Proficiency

Reorientation• Fishman’s Graded Intergenerational

Disruption Scale (GIDS)

MuaPast

MuriFuture

Huri te tū: aronga kē, tauranga kēReorientation

Huri te tū: aronga kē, tauranga kēReorientation

MuaPast

MuriFuture

Huri te tū: aronga kē, tauranga kēReorientation

MuriFuture

MuaPast

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Mua Muri

Huri te tū: aronga kē, tauranga kēReorientation

Reorientation: KoPA/ZePA

Reorientation: ZePA – Nuku Whakamua (Right Shift)

Reorientation: ZePA – Hoki Whakamuri – Rere whakatemauī

(Left Shift)

Reorientation: ZePA – Nuku Whakamua (Right Shift)

‘Ko te reo te kākahu o te whakaaro Māori’ (Sir James Hēnare)

• Nō wai te reo Māori?• Mō wai te reo Māori?

• Ko te reo te aha o Aotearoa?

• Taonga vs Citizenship

• Ko tāu e tangi ai, e te reo, “Mā wai au e kawe ki ōku whenua haumako? Mā wai au e marotiritiri kia pītau māta-a-tipu kia anga nui ki te rā, kia kawea ahau e ngā hau kāinga, e ngā hau takiwā ki a Pokotaringa, ki a Ngākau-nui, ki a Whakaihi mā?” (Milroy 2012).

KoPA: ZePAKoPA: ZePA