He peka o roto i te mātai reo, e titiro ana ki te whakaahuahanga o te reo. Ko te aroā ahureo o te ākonga, koirā tana ahei ki te āta whakaaroaro i te whakamahinga o te reo me te hanga o te reo.
A branch of linguistics which studies the way a language is described. A student's metalinguistic awareness is their ability to think about how language is used, and the structure of language.
mātai - to inspect, examine, investigate (field of study)
ahu - to tend, foster
reo - language
Ko tana tohungatanga, ko te mātai ahureo.
Me mōhio ngā pouako katoa ki ngā mātauranga matua o roto i te mātai ahureo.
Ko te aroturuki a te ākonga i tōna ake reo tētahi āhuatanga o te mātai ahureo.