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The Role of Aotearoa New Zealand Midwives As Positive Influencers on Food Literacy With Samoan Families: Report on a Small Auckland-Based Study
(Nzcom, 2021)Background: Healthy eating is crucial for optimal development during all stage of life and most particularly also during pregnancy. According to Statistics New Zealand [Statistics NZ] (2019) Pasefika people made up 8.1% ... -
Semi-authentic practices for student health interpreters
(University of Western Sydney, 2015)This paper will briefly describe some pedagogical tools used to provide semi-authentic practices for trainee healthcare interpreters. Such practices facilitate legitimate peripheral participation by a Community of Learners ... -
Teacher Provision of Opportunities for Learners to Develop Language Knowledge and Cultural Knowledge
(Taylor & Francis, 2010)This paper examines a language teacher education professional development programme in New Zealand that draws on the 2007 New Zealand Curriculum. At the heart of the Learning Languages area in the curriculum is communicative ... -
Teachers' perceptions of the value and their practices in teaching pragmatics including the use of authentic texts
(AUT University, 2009)Research shows that even learners with advanced levels of grammatical competence may still experience pragmatic difficulties (Bardovi-Harlig & Dornyei, 1998) and that some form of explicit instruction is helpful for ... -
Teaching and assessing intercultural competence
(2014)Teaching and assessing intercultural competence Debbie Corder and Alice U, AUT University This presentation is based on the experiential model of learning, teaching and assessment used in a first-year intercultural competence ... -
Teaching and learning L2 pronunciation: Understanding the effectiveness of socially constructed metalanguage and critical listening in terms of a cognitive phonology framework
(University of New England, Armidale, NSW, 2009)This thesis investigates the processes learners go through in learning the pronunciation of a second language, and how teachers can facilitate these processes. Its focus on the cognitive has led to the development of general ... -
Teaching and Testing Perception of Word Stress: Many Shades of Perception
(Iowa State University Digital Press, 2022)The teaching and measurement of L2 learners' speech perception has generally focused on high variability phonetic training (HVPT) and phoneme identification tasks. However, it is also necessary to consider how the classroom ... -
Teaching concepts of pronunciation: syllables, stress and drunk snails
(International Association of Teachers of English as a Foreign Language (IATEFL), 2014)No abstract. -
Teaching conversation and negotiation skills using teacher-made, semiscripted conversation models (New Zealand)
(TESOL, 2008)No abstracts in this publication. -
Teaching interpreters selfcare
(Conference of Interpreter Trainers (CIT), 2015)Personal factors as well as the nature of certain assignments may negatively impact interpreters and cause stress. The authors sought to examine the various stressors that affect interpreters. They argue that if interpreters ... -
Teaching pragmatics to lower level learners
(TESOLANZ, Victoria University of Wellington, 2012)The teaching and learning of the pragmatics (socio-culturally determined norms) of a second language is vital if migrants and refugees are to live and work in the country of resettlement without miscommunication (Yates, ... -
Teaching the socio-cultural norms of conversation and negotiation to lower level migrants and refugees
(AUT University, 2011)Teaching the socio-cultural norms of spoken communication to second language learners, especially refugees and migrants, is important (Yates, 2008). However there is little research into the effectiveness of classroom ... -
Teaching writing to students from Asia: linking approach and motivation
(Language Centre, Hong Kong Baptist University, 2006)This article is based on a study of the motivation and perceived outcomes of students from non-English speaking backgrounds enrolled in the English for Academic Study program at the Auckland University of Technology. It ... -
The complexities of interpreting in refugee contexts: An examination of issues and practice
(AUT Tangible Media, 2011)Interpreters working with refugees experience a complex working environment. They are sometimes required to interpret traumatic material, and those who are refugees themselves might be coping with their own traumatic ... -
'The English is not the same': challenges in thesis writing for second language speakers of English
(Taylor and Francis, 2011)In this article I describe my interaction as an English for academic purposes (EAP) practitioner with a supervisor and her two postgraduate international students, both of whom were second language speakers of English (L2). ... -
The role of teacher consultation in teacher education: a teacher development project focused on designing and evaluating pragmatics-focused instructional materials
(Applied Linguisitcs Association of New Zealand, 2011)Limited knowledge of pragmatics (the socio-cultural 'rules' of interaction in a community and how they are realised in language) can constitute a barrier to successful communication in a second language (Eslami-Rasekh, ... -
The value of an explicit pronunciation syllabus in ESOL teaching
(AMEP Research Centre, Macquarie University, 2003)This article reports on an action research project which investigated the value of systematically and explicitly incorporating a pronunciation sub-syllabus within the overall syllabus of a full-time post-intermediate level ... -
Thrown in the deep end: challenges of interpreting informal paramedic language
(School of Humanities and Communication Arts, Western Sydney University’, 2016)At the authors’ university, interpreting pedagogies reflect the situated-learning theories proposed by Lave and Wenger (1991) and others especially in specialized areas such as health and legal interpreting. This ... -
Towards a coherent and comprehensive approach to languages in education: breaking away from neoliberal and monolingual frames for education policy
(British Association of Applied Linguistics (BAAL), 2015)No abstract. -
Transformative learning and teaching through inclusiveness, power-sharing and critical enquiry
(Queen's University, Kingston, Ontario, Canada, 2014)Learner diversity has become the norm in many academic learning environments internationally. This has been accompanied by increased recognition and prominence of intercultural learning and teaching. All learners bring ...