School of Language and Culture: Recent submissions
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"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 ... -
Working Towards the Mainstreaming of Languages and Cultures in National Curricula: Norway and Aotearoa/New Zealand
(Faculty of Education and Social Work, the University of Auckland, 2015)In this symposium we bring together colleagues from Norway and Aotearoa/NZ to consider the place of languages and cultures within our respective national curricula. We will examine what still needs to be achieved in each ... -
Pacific Languages, Neoliberalism and Language Education Policy
(Faculty of Education and Social Work, the University of Auckland, 2015)Since 1984 and the election of a fourth Labour Government, New Zealand has been characterised as one of the most neoliberal countries in the world. Neoliberal theory frames most policy, including educational language policy. ... -
Willingness to Communicate in English As a Second Language As a Stable Trait or Context-influenced Variable: Case Studies of Iranian Migrants to New Zealand
(John Benjamins Publishing Company, 2013)Whether Willingness to Communicate (WTC) is a permanent trait or is modified by situational context has previously been investigated in various studies (e.g. Cao & Philp, 2006; Kang, 2005; MacIntyre & Legatto, 2011). ... -
What’s Be Happen? A Dialogic Approach to the Analysis of Herbs’ New Zealand Reggae Lyrics
(Addleton Academic Publishers, 2015)This paper extends aspects of Mikhail Bakhtin’s theory of dialogic relations in the discourse of novels to popular song lyrics. Involving three levels of analysis, it examines the well known New Zealand band Herbs’ ... -
'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 ... -
A model-based online framework for Kanji learning
(Computer-assisted Language Learning (CALL), 2013)This article presents a conceptual CALL model of kanji learning set within a framework of outcome-specific learning tools and cognitive support structure. The kanji learning ‘package’ will enable learners to manage the ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
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. -
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 ... -
Pronunciation teaching: getting stress without getting stressed
(Association Internationale de Linguistique Appliquée (AILA), 2014)It has been established that stress plays an important role in intelligibility, but few studies have investigated teaching stress. This paper reports on the findings of two small-scale exploratory studies which investigated ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
Teaching concepts of pronunciation: syllables, stress and drunk snails
(International Association of Teachers of English as a Foreign Language (IATEFL), 2014)No abstract. -
Reflection and dialogue on postgraduate professional development for experienced language teachers
(RMIT Publishing, 2013)Recent discussion has focused on the benefits and constraints of using and teaching reflection for professional self-development (Farrell, 2007; Volk, 2010). Alongside this is an interest in the value of dialogue in teacher ...