Advancing success in learning languages
Advancing success in
learning languages
Build your skills and strengthen your language teaching practice with one of our hands-on workshops or programmes.
We offer programmes, workshops, in-person classroom support, online support and resources to help strengthen language learning in New Zealand schools, and many of our services are fully-funded.
We also advocate for language learning and language maintenance in New Zealand schools.
Just need access to some teaching resources or want to know the latest research? Join our vibrant community.
We can help you and your school build sustainable language learning programmes that meet the needs of your students, schools and communities, by providing tailored support building on your skills, strengthening your knowledge and grow your love of language teaching.
Our role includes working with you to build programmes as well as providing workshops, online support and resources via our virtual community.To find out more email tuituia.languages@auckland.ac.nz
What we do
Provide funded PLD to sustain teacher pedagogy
Develop a robust and sustainable language programme
Strengthen an existing language programme
Support the development of teacher efficacy
Improve outcomes for students taking languages
Explain the value of learning a language to students in the wider context of all their learning
Highlight career opportunities for students of languages
Help schools build international links
Plan and run cultural events to create a multicultural environment
Develop a robust and sustainable language programme
Strengthen an existing language programme
Develop your skills as a middle leader
Plan and run cultural events to create a multicultural environment
Improve outcomes for students taking languages
Explain the value of learning a language to students in the wider context of all their learning
Highlight career opportunities for students of languages
Understand the importance of ongoing development for languages teachers
Develop your skills in a wide range of research backed pedagogy
Provide access to grants to develop language teaching in your school
Improve outcomes for your students
Connect with other teachers around the country
Highlight career opportunities for students of languages
Help you to become influential within your school community and an advocate for language learning
Make languages visible
Join our vibrant community
We offer a space for teachers to connect, build lifelong friendships and get the resources needed to help inspire students to learn the official, realm and international languages of Aotearoa New Zealand.
We do this by providing research-backed pedagogy, access to resources and forums, via our LMS. There you’ll also see the workshops and programmes we offer to help our teachers connect with each other as well as with our facilitators.
Explore our upcoming programmes & workshops
Upgrade your skills and knowledge with our most popular workshops
In the current environment, the Grant-in-aid of $500 towards language study which is a part of the Strengthening Asia-Pacific Language Teaching – North Asia programme is a huge benefit to teachers to have another means of language learning and support at this time.
We warmly invite all former and current participants of our PACT and SAPLT North Asia programmes to attend a workshop day and early evening function with the North Asia CAPE and the Tui Tuia | Learning Circle Languages team.
Learning comes through action, so let's put language learning into motion!
This online workshop is intended for primary and intermediate school teachers of Spanish, as well as junior secondary school teachers.
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Co-facilitated by Lan Dai and Karen Hu, this hands-on workshop aims to provide the chance for you to explore and experience how to integrate Food Technology in the teaching of Chinese.
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Would you like to immerse yourself in Japanese for half an hour? Here’s a chance for you to join our monthly online session to engage in a casual conversation with our Japanese National Language Adviser in Japan and other Japanese language teachers in Aotearoa.
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Hands-on group activities are not only effective in providing experiential learning opportunities but also effective in enabling learners to enhance their cooperation and communication skills.
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Started in June 2022, Nǐ Hǎo-Yun Tan 你好-云坛 is a quarterly online meeting that aims to provide New Zealand Chinese language teachers to get together online once a term to share ideas and discuss challenges.
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Starting in August, a regular monthly "Chinese Conversation Corner" called "茶叙" - a Tea & Talk through Zoom - will be held.
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The Moon Festival, also known as the Mooncake Festival, is a traditional festival celebrated in Chinese culture.
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Starting from August, regional meetings for Chinese language teachers will be held in three different regions - Christchurch, Wellington and Auckland.
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If you would like to spend a weekend away in the company of fellow language teachers, using your language and enjoying a variety of activities, then we invite you to apply for our Immersion Weekend in Nelson.
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Have you ever experienced the diversity of the German city, Bonn? What facts are you able to share with your students about Bonn, the former capital city of Germany?
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