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Foreign Language Teachers’ Language Proficiency and Their Language Teaching Practice
(Taylor & Francis, 2013)Teachers’ subject knowledge is recognised as an essential component of effective teaching. In the foreign language context, teachers’ subject knowledge includes language proficiency. In New Zealand high schools, foreign ... -
'French adds to its owner’s culture and general intelligence’. The politics of subject languages in New Zealand schools: the first fifty years
(University College London, 2015)In publicly monolingual, English dominant countries like New Zealand, why, how, when, where, which and for whom subject languages are taught in schools, are important questions. Unfortunately these questions rarely receive ... -
Group assessments: dilemmas facing lecturers in multicultural tertiary classrooms
(Taylor and Francis, 2007)'Group is good, and group is good for curing all social ills' was the cynical observation of one of the lecturers in this study. Her comment reflects the uneasiness of lecturers at tertiary institutions with the notion ... -
How much does parental language behaviour reflect their language beliefs in language maintenance?
(John Benjamins Publishing Company, 2010)It has been widely accepted that parental language beliefs play a crucial role in language maintenance. Studies show that Chinese immigrants are not exempted from language shift although they are frequently reported ... -
"I don't think we're seen as a nuisance" - The Positioning of Postgraduate Learning Advisors in New Zealand Universities
(The Australasian Association of Writing Progams, 2013)New Zealand universities host linguistically and culturally diverse cohorts of students. Many of these students, both first and second language speakers of English, struggle to achieve their potential because their academic ... -
IELTS and an English for academic study programme: points of similarity and areas of divergence
(CLESOL, 2009)This paper describes an analysis of assessments on a preparatory, English for academic study (EAS) programme at a New Zealand university and of IELTS tests. The university accepts students with the required Band 6 overall ... -
Improving psychological skill in trainee interpreters
(Conference of Interpreter Trainers (CIT), 2014)The general effects of self-efficacy and explanatory style on performance have been thoroughly researched in the field of psychology. This article is based on Atkinson’s (2012) psychological skill model, which attempts to ... -
Improving the teaching of casual conversation through collaborative action research - a 'Leap in the Dark' or a 'Shot in the Arm'?
(AUT University, 2005)There is, in recent TESOL literature, much encouragement for teachers to undertake Action Learning and Action Research in order to improve teaching and develop research skills. But how practical and beneficial is this in ... -
Improving the teaching of the pragmatic norms of conversation: a journey of reflective teacher action research
(Tesolanz, 2010)Following the recent renewal of interest in the teaching of pragmatics (Kasper & Roever, 2004), the author has conducted a series of action research investigations into the teaching of pragmatic norms using elicited recorded ... -
In a manner of speaking: assessing frequent spoken figurative idioms to assist ESL/EFL teachers
(Elsevier, 2007)This article outlines criteria to define a figurative idiom, and then compares the frequent figurative idioms identified in two sources of spoken American English (academic and contemporary) to their frequency in spoken ... -
“In Iran I Didn’t Speak English Any More”: The Effects of Contextual Changes on the Willingness to Communicate of Iranian Migrants to New Zealand
(2016)Since the development of the willingness to communicate (WTC) construct by MacIntyre et al. in 1998, a variety of psychological factors which enhance or diminish an individual’s desire to speak in a second language have ... -
‘In New Zealand I Feel More Confidence’: The Role of Context in the Willingness to Communicate (WTC) of Migrant Iranian English Language Learners
(Servicio de Publicaciones. Universidad de Murcia., 2015)This article will discuss recent theories of Willingness to Communicate (WTC) and provide an overview of studies into this individual difference which have been conducted in both Iran and New Zealand (NZ). So far few ... -
Intercultural competence: encouraging learner reflection
(Spanish Teachers Association New Zealand Aotearoa (STANZA), 2015)Presentation of research findings from a wider study on the development of intercultural communicative language teaching, with recommendations for current language teachers in New Zealand schools. The focus is on the role ... -
Intercultural Language Learners: Are You Providing Opportunities for Your Language Learners to Reflect?
(New Zealand Association of Language Teachers, 2014)As you know, the two strands of Knowledge Awareness - language and culture - have equal weighting in the Learning Languages area of the NZ 2007 Curriculum. This was a paradigm shift in the teaching of additional languages, ... -
Investigations into pronunciation teaching
(IATEFL, 2011)This article reports on the main findings of my recently completed PhD (Couper 2009) and discusses the implications for the classroom. The findings are based on a series of three cumulative studies. With the insights gained ... -
“It’s Not the Way We Use English”—Can We Resist the Native Speaker Stranglehold on Academic Publications?
(MDPI AG, 2017)English dominates the academic publishing world, and this dominance can, and often does, lead to the marginalisation of researchers who are not first-language speakers of English. There are different schools of thought ... -
Ki Te Tahatū O Te Rangi: Normalising Te Reo Māori Across Non-traditional Māori Language Domains
(Te Taura Whiri i te Reo Māori, 2019)Background In 2018, Te Taura Whiri i te Reo Māori (The Māori Language Commission) commissioned the New Zealand Work Research Institute (NZWRI) and Te Ipukarea (The National Māori Language Institute) to explore the integration ... -
Kia Kaua Te Reo E Rite Ki Te Moa, Ka Ngaro: Do Not Let the Language Suffer the Same Fate As the Moa
(The Royal Society, 2020)More than a third of the world's languages are currently classified as endangered and more than half are expected to go extinct by 2100. Strategies aimed at revitalizing endangered languages have been implemented in numerous ... -
Language shift and host society attitudes: Dutch migrants who arrived in New Zealand between 1950 and 1965
(Sage Publishers, 2012)Language shift and host society attitudes - Dutch migrants who arrived in New Zealand between 1950 and 1965 Abstract A study published in 2010 reported on past and current language use of a group of older Dutch migrants ...