Volume 10, Issue 1 (2009)
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Item type: Item , He Puna Kōrero: Journal of Māori and Pacific Development (Vol. 10, Issue 1)(Te Pua Wānanga ki te Ao, Te Whare Wānanga o Waikato, 2009-02)He Puna Kōrero: Journal of Māori and Pacific Development, Volume 10, Issue 1.Item type: Item , The tradition of facial tattoo in Taiwan: The case of the Truku people(Te Pua Wānanga ki te Ao, Te Whare Wānanga o Waikato, 2009-02) Johnson, Diane; Her, Jia-Huey; Tseng, Yi-JuThe art of body marking (tattoo), is a traditional pan-Austronesian tradition that has been lost or partially lost in many countries. In the case of the Truku tribe in north eastern Taiwan, the traditional practice of facial tattoo ceased around the 1 930s and there are now only a few tribal elders (both male and female) who still bear the characteristic tribal markings. This paper reports on a research project in which a questionnaire was administered to 100 members of the Si-La-An sub-tribe of the Truku people. The findings indicate that although the respondents know that this was once a significant cultural practice within the tribe, detailed knowledge and understanding of the traditional customs and practices associated with facial tattoo is inconsistent and opinions about the value of continuing the custom vary considerably.Item type: Item , Exploring synergies between Māori pedagogy and communicative language teaching(Te Pua Wānanga ki te Ao, Te Whare Wānanga o Waikato, 2009-02) Nock, Sophie; Crombie, WinifredThe primary aim of this paper is to explore potential synergies between Māori pedagogy and what is known as 'communicative language teaching'. A brief outline of some changes and developments in approaches to language teaching and learning over the last few decades is followed by a summary of some of the main characteristics of communicative language teaching (CLT) and of different approaches to the conceptualization of Māori pedagogy. Some of the primary characteristics of communicative language teaching are then explored in the context of Māori pedagogy and it is argued that there are some important synergies between the two.Item type: Item , The entrepreneurial spirit of the Pacific Peoples: A study of Pacific immigrant entrepreneurship in New Zealand(Te Pua Wānanga ki te Ao, Te Whare Wānanga o Waikato, 2009-02) de Vries, Huibert PThe difficulty associated with determining what constitutes immigrant entrepreneurial behaviour lies in the road being travelled differently by immigrants from dissimilar backgrounds, value systems, and cultural heritages. Migration and settlement issues present themselves in a multitude of different forms, depending on a complex and dynamic combination of the ethnic characteristics of the specific ethnic immigrant group and the receiving country's socio-economic infrastructure. This paper presents the findings of a case study-based approach to a description of the entrepreneurial spirit within Pacific People in New Zealand, an approach involving triangulation (semi-structured interviews with Pacific immigrant entrepreneurs; selected immigration literature, and interviews with Pacific community leaders). The case study is based on four constructs (migration profile, settlement profile, cultural profile and business profile) which were identified as impacting on immigrant entrepreneurship patterns. Conclusions relating to each of the following are presented: business drivers (e.g. generational differences and social obligation); business strengths (e.g. uniqueness, family, and community networks); and weaknesses that inhibit the entrepreneurial spirit (e.g. lack of confidence and social obligations).Item type: Item , Vocabulary learning strategies and language games: Reporting on a Taiwan-based study.(Te Pua Wānanga ki te Ao, Te Whare Wānanga o Waikato, 2009-02) Chen, MeihuaThis study investigates the effectiveness of games as a vocabulary learning strategy. Forty-six students of English as a foreign language (EFL) voluntarily joined a vocabulary extension training program, using games created by the author, for a total period of 20 hours in the summer of 2008. Oxford's (1990) Strategies Inventory for Language Learning (SILL) was used before and after the program to detect learning strategies and any changes in learning strategies before and after the program and Statistical Package for the Social Sciences (SPSS) was used for data analysis. In terms of strategy use, there were significant differences between pretest and post-test results, particularly in the area of memory strategies. This suggests that further research in the area of games-based vocabulary enhancement, particularly in the area of strategy use and development, would be likely to be of value.