ABSTRACT This article explores the extent to which task-based language teaching (TBLT) as an emerging but increasingly popular language teaching approach can be used successfully for teaching te reo Māori as a minority and endangered language in Aotearoa/New Zealand. The article presents the experiences and perspectives of one beginning teacher of te reo in an initial teacher education programme. This teacher participated in a one-year course with a dedicated focus on TBLT, designed principally for teachers of the so-called Modern Foreign Languages (MFLs). The article outlines this teacher’s initial struggle to see the relevance of the MFL course for her work as an intending teacher of te reo, and her ultimate embracing of her peers and the ideas explored in the course. The study raises issues for the pertinence of TBLT for strengthening and supporting New Zealand’s indigenous language, and concludes that an approach such as TBLT may have an important role to play.

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基于任务的语言教学是振兴毛利人的一种工具：一位初学者的观点

摘要本文探讨了基于任务的语言教学（TBLT）作为新兴但日益流行的语言教学方法在多大程度上可以成功地用于在新西兰奥泰塔罗阿（Aotearoa / New Zealand）教授毛利语作为少数民族和濒危语言。本文介绍了一名初任教师的教师在初始教师教育计划中的经验和观点。这位老师参加了为期一年的课程，主要针对TBLT，主要是为所谓的现代外国语言（MFL）的老师设计的。这篇文章概述了这位老师最初的努力，以期了解MFL课程与她作为目标教学老师的工作的相关性，以及她对同学们的最终拥护和在课程中探索的想法。