Textbooks for the teaching of te reo Māori

As part of a recent study of the teaching and learning of te reo Māori (the Māori language) in English-medium secondary schools in Aotearoa/New Zealand, I asked a sample of teachers which textbooks they used. I then analysed some of those textbooks that were referred to most often, using focus points derived from a review of literature on the design of textbooks for the teaching of additional languages. What I found was that the textbooks analysed were inconsistent with the relevant curriculum guidelines document and were also problematic in a number of other ways. This article discusses a number of the problematic concerns and outlines what would be involved in designing more effective textbooks for Indigenous languages, and textbooks that are in line with current research findings

Aotearoa · Curriculum · Focus (optics · Indigenous · Mathematics education · Pedagogy · Sociology · EFL/ESL Teaching and Learning · Gender Studies · Multilingual Education and Policy · Psychology · Second Language Learning and Teaching

• Communicative language teaching

  Open Access•Theo Bongaerts•System•1982

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• Authentic Discourse and the Survival English Curriculum

  Ruth Larimer Cathcart•TESOL Quarterly•1989

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• Techniques and Principles in Language Teaching

  Leo A W Van Lier, Diane Larsen‐freeman et al.•TESOL Quarterly•1987

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• Communicative Tasks and the Language Curriculum

  David Nunan•TESOL Quarterly•1991

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• The Psychologist and the Foreign-Language Teacher

  A V P Elliott, Amber Elliott et al.•British Journal of Educational…•1965

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