• Time: 4-5pm
• Venue: Zoom
• Member: Free
• Non Members: Free

Our refreshed curriculum, Te Mātaiaho foregrounds te reo Māori as a taonga, unique to Aotearoa New Zealand. Reading picture books with ākonga is a wonderful way of appreciating and supporting te reo Māori, particularly as our thoughts turn to the celebration of Matariki. In this webinar, Nicola Daly explores seven Matariki picture books and the different ways in which te reo Māori is woven into the English text.

Nicola Daly is a sociolinguist and Associate Professor in the Division of Education, University of Waikato, where she teaches children’s literature, and leads the Postgraduate Certificate in Children’s and Young Adult Literature. She also co-directs the Waikato Picture book Research Unit. Her research focus is multilingual picture books, and their role in perpetuating and challenging language attitudes. She was a Fulbright New Zealand Scholar at the University of Arizona, USA in 2019/2020