MĀORI  101

Introduction to Written Māori

Description

An introduction to listening, reading, writing and translation techniques used in the composition, reading and understanding of basic Maori. Designed for students with little or no knowledge of the language, and for those with some fluency wishing to understand simple sentence structure and composition.

For full course information see the Digital Course Outline.

Digital Course Outlines for 2025 will be refreshed around November/December.

Availability 2025

Semester 1

Lecturer(s)

Lecturer(s) Dr Ake Nicholas

Reading/Texts

None. There are no prescribed texts in this course, however, he strongly recommend that you obtain a Maori-English, Maori Dictionary to help you with vocabulary translations.

Recommended Reading

English-Maori, Maori-English Dictionary, B. Biggs (AUP 1990)

Ryan, PM. (2012) The Raupo Dictionary of Modern Maori.  Penguin.  (Also has an ebook, and pocket versions)

Moorfield, J. (2011). Te Aka: Maori-English, English-Maori Dictionary (3e). Pearson, NZ.

Assessment

Coursework + exam

Points

MAORI 101: 15 points

Restrictions

May not be taken if a more advanced language acquisition course in this subject has previously been passed