{"id":210,"date":"2014-11-28T14:17:06","date_gmt":"2014-11-28T01:17:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.otago.ac.nz\/tetumuresearch\/?p=210"},"modified":"2014-11-28T14:17:06","modified_gmt":"2014-11-28T01:17:06","slug":"te-tumu-academic-wins-nga-pae-fulbright-visiting-scholarship","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.otago.ac.nz\/tetumuresearch\/te-tumu-academic-wins-nga-pae-fulbright-visiting-scholarship\/","title":{"rendered":"Te Tumu academic wins Ng\u0101 Pae Fulbright visiting scholarship"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_211\" style=\"width: 260px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.otago.ac.nz\/tetumuresearch\/files\/2014\/11\/Matiu.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-211\" class=\"wp-image-211 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.otago.ac.nz\/tetumuresearch\/files\/2014\/11\/Matiu.jpg\" alt=\"Matiu\" width=\"250\" height=\"206\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-211\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Dr Matiu R\u0101tima (Te Whakat\u014dhea and Ng\u0101ti Pukeko)<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Congratulations to <strong><span style=\"color: #339966\">Dr Matiu R\u0101tima<\/span><\/strong>, one of our M\u0101ori-language\u00a0kaiako, who has recently been awarded a Ng\u0101 Pae Fulbright visiting scholarship to undertake research at the M\u0101noa campus of the University of Hawai`i, in Oahu. Matiu will be away from 10 August 2015 to 10 January 2016 during his Research and Study Leave.<\/p>\n<p>While in Hawai\u2019i where he\u2019ll be working with Dr Keao Nesmith of the Kawaihuelani Center for Hawaiian Language on their research project titled, \u201c<span style=\"color: #ff0000\">Communicative Language Teaching for Indigenous Language Revitalisation<\/span>\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>Globally there are few indigenous languages that are not under threat of decline or extinction. It has been estimated that of the world\u2019s 6,912 known languages, 95% of these are spoken by less than 6% of the population. Experts forecast that less than 10 percent of the world\u2019s living oral languages (in the year 1992) will still be spoken by 2092. \u00a0Urgent action, underpinned by good research, is vital to stop this decline.<\/p>\n<p>Matiu\u2019s research will examine four key questions.<\/p>\n<p>1. How are indigenous languages being taught within universities?<\/p>\n<p>2. What pedagogies are being applied?<\/p>\n<p>3. What constitutes \u2018best practice\u2019 in indigenous language teaching? And;<\/p>\n<p>4. How can Communicative Language Teaching help to produce speakers of indigenous languages?<\/p>\n<p>The research focuses on three case studies, the teaching in universities of the M\u0101ori, Hawaiian and Tahitian languages.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.fulbright.org.nz\/\" target=\"_blank\">Fulbright New Zealand <\/a>promotes \u201cmutual understanding between the peoples of New Zealand and the United States of America by means of educational and cultural exchange\u201d, and offers a range of grants for New Zealand academics and graduates to research in America.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Congratulations to Dr Matiu R\u0101tima, one of our M\u0101ori-language\u00a0kaiako, who has recently been awarded a Ng\u0101 Pae Fulbright visiting scholarship to undertake research at the M\u0101noa campus of the University of Hawai`i, in Oahu. Matiu will be away from 10 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15374,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8759,35274,35249],"tags":[35314,15363,35315,17863],"class_list":["post-210","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-maori-studies","category-research-funding","category-success-story","tag-language-revitalization","tag-maori-language","tag-matiu-ratima","tag-te-tumu"],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.otago.ac.nz\/tetumuresearch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/210","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.otago.ac.nz\/tetumuresearch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.otago.ac.nz\/tetumuresearch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.otago.ac.nz\/tetumuresearch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/15374"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.otago.ac.nz\/tetumuresearch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=210"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.otago.ac.nz\/tetumuresearch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/210\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.otago.ac.nz\/tetumuresearch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=210"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.otago.ac.nz\/tetumuresearch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=210"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.otago.ac.nz\/tetumuresearch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=210"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}