Rate My Professor Jeanette King

King earned her PhD from the University of Canterbury in 2007. Her doctoral dissertation is titled “Eke ki runga i te waka: The use of dominant metaphors by newly-fluent Māori speakers in historical perspective.” Her research focuses on the Māori language, including the worldview of second language speakers of Māori, indigenous language revitalization, bilingualism, and language maintenance. She has contributed to projects examining knowledge among non-Māori-speaking New Zealanders and developed tools such as a part of speech tagger for Māori. King maintains an active academic profile with numerous publications and grants in these areas.

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