This course is intended for students with little or no prior knowledge of the Māori language. The emphasis will be on developing oral and listening skills in the Māori language with reading and writing skills as reinforcement. Upon successful completion of this course, students will be able to understand language that has a familiar pattern, recognise new words and be able to interact in a communicative way with predictable exchanges. Learners will also develop an awareness of the language learning process. The medium of delivery favours a bilingual approach and the teaching strategies are based on Māori pedagogical practices and communicative language teaching methodology where possible.

This paper will be taught for five weeks; classes will use a mixture of lectures and tutorials, each week you will be introduced to new words and sentence constructions which will help develop and build on your language. In week one you will be introduced to te reo Māori, whakawhanaungatanga (getting to know each other), getting acquainted with some of the services the university provides. You will also be introduced to the whakapapa o te ao Māori, o te reo Māori, o te tangata, learn how to give a mihi and introduce/talk about your whānau (family). During week two & three you will begin learning the vocabulary and sentence constructions for talking about a trip and/or talking about the holiday of my dreams. In week four you will learn about expressing your thoughts and intentions with basic verbal structures, discussing likes & dislikes and using appropriate whakakāhoretanga/negatives in context. Week five will include revision and the final written and oral tests.

This paper is supported by Moodle. Moodle is the eLearning platform of this university that is used to foster student interaction related to learning. This paper (MAORI111) can be accessed by visiting http://elearn.waikato.ac.nz/

E tika ana kia whakapau ō koutou kaha ki te whakatutuki i ngā mahi/aromatawai i mua i ō koutou aroaro, kaua e pōhēhē ka taea ngā mahi/aromatawai katoa te whakaoti atu i roto tonu i ngā karaehe akoako. Me whakapau hāora atu anō: Students are encouraged to study every night for at least two hours (where possible). Do not be mistaken that the hours during class time will be sufficient learning time, use this time to:

- Titiro ki ngā mahi whakaū, ki ngā Mahi Parakitihi. Complete consolidation tasks not completed in class.

- Rangahaua ngā kaupapa mō te kōrero-ā-waha. Research topics, constructions and new words for oral tests and practice for oral test.

- Hoki whakamuri ki te titiro ki ngā mahi kua tirohia kētia (mō te whakamātautau-ā-tuhi). Practise all new sentence constructions learnt during class time.

- Āta pānui i ngā kōrero kua puta mai i te karaehe akoako. Read, learn and revise any material brought up in tutorial classes.

- Me parakitihi i ngā kōrero kua ara ake anō a roto o te karaehe akoako. Revise any work covered in class.

- Me ako i ngā kupu hou. Learn new words.