Poipoia Te Mauri O Te Reo

Ko te ture te mana o te reo, ā, kua mana te reo i ngā whare wānanga Pākehā nā ngā kaupapa here mō te reo Māori. Kei ia whare wānanga Pākehā te āheinga ki te tuku aromatawai ki te reo. Engari, kāore anō kia toka ngā whakaritenga kia māka i ērā aromatawai atu i ngā horopaki reo Māori. Kua tuhia nei ētahi wheako mō te tuhituhi me te māka i te tuhinga reo Māori tuatahi ki POPH192,he pepa o te Mātau Hauora Tau Tuatahi (HSFY) i Ōtākou Whakaihu Waka. He rautaki āwhina te māka ā-rōpū hei whakawhanake i ngā pūkenga, i ngā kaimahi, i ngā pūnaha hoki. Ko tētahi aronui hoki o te māka ā-rōpū ko te tika o te māka mō ngā reo e rua. I noho te rautaki whakarauora reo o KoPA (ZePA) hei tūāpapa mō ēnei wheako, ka mutu kei te Pō tēnei whare wānanga i tēnei wā. Kei te pari mai te tai o ngā tauira mātau ki te reo ki ngā whare wānanga, nā reira, me whai ara hāpai kia puritia ki te Awatea. Kei ia tauira ōna ake take ki te tuhi i te reo Māori, ā, me tautoko ērā katoa ka tika. Māori is an official language in New Zealand, and is recognised through the Māori language policies of each of the country’s eight universities. All universities allow students to submit assessments in Māori; however, the processes and support for marking such assessments require further development. This article describes the authors’ experiences writing and marking the first essay submitted in Māori in the Health Sciences First Year paper POPH192 at the University of Otago. We used a group marking process to support the development of staff capability to mark in Māori. This process also ensured that marking was fair across both of the languages in which the essays were able to be submitted for the entire course. Under the KoPA (also known as ZePA) language revitalisation framework, the University is currently in the Passive (te Pō) state. To be ready for the increasing numbers of fluent Māori speakers entering tertiary education, more work needs to be done to move the University into Active (te Awatea). Students have a variety of reasons for wanting to write in Māori and these should all be supported

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