Super Maori Fullahs:

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Super Maori Fullahs

• What can we learn from exemplar Maori language
  students?

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The Research Question

• What factors influence the development of high
  levels of proficiency in te reo Maori amongst
  adult second language learners?

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Insights from the learners

• For learners
• For teachers
• For providers of adult education
• For Second Language Acquisition theory

• Identity, relationships, transferable skills,
  social service
• Understand and live Maori culture
• Language learning is culture learning, extend
  beyond the classroom
• Social service theory (Ratima, 2013)

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Insights from the literature

• Aptitude
• Age
• Motivation
• Learner strategies
• Instruction

• Anxiety and Agency
• Wairua
• Demography
• Planning
• Status

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Te Reo Quick Stats

• In 2006 131, 613 (23.7) of Maori could hold a
  conversation about everyday things
• This was an increase of 1, 128 from 2001
• 65 years just under ½ of Maori could hold a
  conversation about everyday things
• 15 64 years approx ¼ of Maori could hold a
  conversation about everyday things
• Under 15 years just over 1/6 of Maori could hold
  a conversation about everyday things

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Conference themes

• Whakapapa (whanau/hapu/iwi/hapori)
• The classroom and beyond
• Working with our tertiary institutions

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What is the ideal?How do we get there?

• 80 of te iwi Maori who can hold a conversation
  about everyday things
• Stop making excuses
• Have high expectations