[lg policy] New Zealand: Te Waka Reo National Language Policy

Mon Jul 19 13:05:26 UTC 2010

News & Issues
 0 New Auckland Council website completely monolingual
Thursday, July 15th, 2010
The new Auckland Council website went live on 1 July 2010. After
reviewing the site, the Race Relations Commissioner wrote to the
council expressing disappointment that the site was “completely
monolingual, fails to reflect the cultural and linguistic diversity of
the Auckland region, and has no regard to those Aucklanders whose
first language is not English”.

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 0 Come along to a celebrity cook-off to launch Te Wiki o te Reo Māori 2010
Thursday, July 15th, 2010
On Monday 26 July, Te Wiki o te Reo Māori 2010 will be launched by a
lunch-time celebrity cook-off at Midland Park in Wellington. In light
of this year’s theme, “Te Mahi Kai - The Language of Food”, the
Minister of Māori Affairs and sporting celebrities will battle it out
to be named best chef.

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 0 Resources available to celebrate Te Wiki o te Reo Māori 2010
Thursday, July 15th, 2010
Te Wiki o te Reo Māori 2010 resources, including posters, shopping
bags, stickers, t-shirts and phrasebooks are now available from Te
Taura Whiri: Māori Language Commission. The phrase book includes
vocabulary for different food cultivation and preparation areas,
recipes, karakia kai (food prayers) and proverbs.

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 0 Celebrate Māori Focus Month with Newspapers in Education
Thursday, July 15th, 2010
In the lead up to Māori Language Week, Newspapers in Education (NiE)
have published four, separate eight-page mini newspapers across levels
two-five. The following titles are now available from NiE:
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 0 Register for the NZ Diversity Forum
Thursday, July 15th, 2010
“Interpreting in the Health Sector”, hosted by Partnership Health
Canterbury, will be presented at the annual NZ Diversity Forum 2010.
The forum will be held from 22-23 August 2010 at the Christchurch
Convention Centre.

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 0 Teach New Zealand Sign Language with new toolkits now available
Thursday, July 15th, 2010
Think. Sign. Teach someone. Teach one of New Zealand’s official
languages: New Zealand Sign Language (NZSL). Deaf Aotearoa, along with
Kelston Deaf Education Centre and multichannel.media has created two
fantastic interactive resources for people to learn NZSL.

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 0 Ngāi Tahu celebrates 10 years of “1000 Homes, 1000 Dreams”
Thursday, July 15th, 2010
This year Ngāi Tahu celebrates 10 years of their Māori language
strategy Kotahi Mano Kaika, Kotahi Mano Wawata (1000 Homes, 1000
Dreams). Affectionately known as KMK, this 25-year strategy, which
aims to have 1000 Ngāi Tahu households speaking te reo Māori, is the
tribe’s answer to halting the rapid decline in the use of te reo Māori
in Te Waipounamu.

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 0 Language vital to retaining Pacific heritage arts
Thursday, July 15th, 2010
Based on research released in June, Chair of Creative New Zealand’s
Pacific Arts Committee Pele Walker says “Many Pacific communities
emphasised that the health of heritage arts in this country cannot be
considered in isolation from Pacific languages. In knowing the
language you can pick up the underlying values and the unique aspects
of culture. Often, the strength of a community’s language is a good
indication of the health of its heritage arts.”

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 0 50,000 people learning Mandarin by 2011?
Thursday, July 15th, 2010
The Confucius Institute hopes Prime Minister John Key’s push for more
Mandarin speakers will help it achieve its goal of getting 50,000
people learning the language by 2011.

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 0 Totara Park School’s Mandarin classes a hit
Thursday, July 15th, 2010
Children at Totara Park School in Upper Hutt are learning about
Chinese language and culture from two teachers fluent in Mandarin.

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 0 New research undertaken on cross-cultural communication
Thursday, July 15th, 2010
Researchers believe they could break down cultural barriers by
studying differences in the way Māori and Pākehā communicate. Critics
have questioned, however, why taxpayer money should be spent on this
when the two cultures are already perfectly capable of relating to
each other.

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 0 Samoan-language film accepted at New Zealand International Film Festival
Thursday, July 15th, 2010
The 2009 Samoan-language short film Va Tapuia (Sacred Spaces) has been
accepted at the New Zealand International Film Festival. Written and
directed by new Samoan director Tusi Tamasese, the film tells the
story of two grieving strangers who find comfort in each other in a
cyclone-ravaged Samoan village.

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 0 Language teachers to gain internationally recognised qualifications
Thursday, July 15th, 2010
Up to 60 places are available for teachers of Chinese, French, German,
Japanese and Spanish and up to 20 places for teachers of Cook Islands
Māori, Niuean, Samoan, Tongan and Tokelauan to gain internationally
recognised language qualifications as well as accreditation in
language teaching.

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 0 Innovative language resources developed to support the NZ curriculum
Thursday, July 15th, 2010
Wellington-based CWA New Media is developing an innovative new suite
of language resources for the Ministry of Education. The resources
combine the implications of recent research into language learning
with innovative ways of putting teaching and learning resources into
the hands of New Zealand teachers and students.

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 0 Potential increased internet accessibility to a billion people
Thursday, July 15th, 2010
The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN)’s
board, which is responsible for decisions relating to policy on the
Internet’s unique identifiers, has approved a set of Chinese-language
internationalised top-level domain names, enabling millions to soon be
able to access the Internet entirely using Chinese script.

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 0 Apply for a NZ-China scholarship in 2011
Thursday, July 15th, 2010
Each year, the Confucius Institute in Auckland offers up to 10
scholarships for advanced Chinese language study in China, in
cooperation with China’s Ministry of Education.

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Future Events
 0 CLESOL 2010 conference
Thursday, July 15th, 2010
The Community Languages and English for Speakers of Other Languages
(CLESOL) 2010 conference will be held 1-4 October 2010 at King’s High
School in Dunedin.

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 0 TRCC Te Marautanga o Aotearoa training course
Thursday, July 15th, 2010
The Te Marautanga o Aotearoa training course, run by the Teachers’
Refresher Course Committee (TRCC), is to be held on 2-6 October 2010
at St Margaret’s College & Camelot Motor Inn, Christchurch.

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 0 Huia Te Reo: Māori Language Expo 2010
Thursday, July 15th, 2010
The Māori Language Expo will take place from 8-9 October at the Energy
Events Centre in Rotorua. Huia Te Reo will have a particular emphasis
on improved and sustainable reo Māori usage.

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 0 Critical Link 6 “Interpreting in a Changing Landscape” conference
Thursday, July 15th, 2010
The 6th International Critical Link Conference “Interpreting in a
Changing Landscape” will be held from 26-30 July 2010, with the aim of
bringing together representatives from all spheres of the public
service interpreting community, and to examine the role of
interpreters in the world.

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http://www.hrc.co.nz/newsletters/diversity-action-programme/te-waka-reo/2010/07/
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