The Indian Weekender, 04 June 2021

4 NEW ZEALAND
Friday, June 4, 2021
The Indian Weekender
SANDEEP SINGH
The much anticipated Second languages
bill that promised hope to many for
realising a long-held dream of bringing
multiple languages in a list of 10 priority
languages that can give children the opportunity
to learn a second language in primary and
intermediate schools is all set to fail in the
second reading of the bill in parliament.
The Labour-led parliamentary committee
examining the bill, originally proposed by ex-
National MP Nikki Kaye, has shown apathy
towards the idea of making 10 languages a
priority saying that only te reo Māori and sign
language should be the priority languages
because they are both official languages.
The committee has further said that
Cook Island Māori, Niuean and Tokelauan
and other Pacific languages needed to be
valued and taught.
National Party has blasted
Labour Party for killing the bill.
Labour’s move to kill a National Member’s
Bill to give primary and intermediate schools
the tools to teach a second language is narrowminded
and misses a golden opportunity to
equip our kids with greater language skills,
National’s Education spokesperson Paul
Goldsmith says.
Labour had previously supported National’s
second language learning bill that would enable
Second languages bill likely to not
survive second reading in parliament
as Labour Party shows no interest
primary and intermediate schools to offer a
second language from a list of 10, which must
include te reo and New Zealand Sign Language.
“Labour’s problem with the Bill is that
it offers choice, when they believe there
should only be one choice for the second
language – te reo.
“One minute Labour MPs are celebrating
Samoan language week in Parliament, next
minute they are killing a piece of legislation that
would better equip schools to teach Samoan –
or Hindi, or Mandarin, or Tongan, or Punjabi
or any number of languages widely spoken in
communities around New Zealand.
“They appear to have agreed with the
Ministry of Education’s assertion that allowing
choice would be a breach of the Treaty.
“A Ministry official told the Select Committee
that if the legislation passed ‘schools would
have an open-ended choice, rather than a
guided choice’. Guided choice seems to be
departmental speak for ‘no choice’, it is te reo
or nothing.
“This is nonsense. Te reo was always going
to be included in the priority list of languages,
and the legislation doesn’t remove the existing
requirement for school boards to make teaching
available in tikanga Māori and te reo Māori.
“But not all kids will want to study te reo in
depth.
One minute Labour MPs
are celebrating Samoan
language week in Parliament,
next minute they are killing
a piece of legislation that
would better equip schools
to teach Samoan – or Hindi,
or Mandarin, or Tongan, or
Punjabi or any number of
languages widely spoken in
communities around New
Zealand
“National doesn’t believe in forcing kids
to learn one specific language. Motivation to
learn a language is essential, so giving children
options to make that choice themselves is a
much better way to do it.
“It was clear in the submissions to the
legislation that there is a keen interest in a
wide variety of languages in this country.
Implementing this law would’ve been a
significant first step towards creating smarter,
more culturally aware Kiwis.”
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