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Review: Costuming Cosplay: Dressing the Imagination, Therèsa Winge (Bloomsbury 2018)
(Iris Publishers, 2020)No abstract. -
Book Review: Promoting Spontaneous Use of Learning and Reasoning Strategies: Theory, Research and Practice for Effective Transfer
(Frontiers Media S.A., 2020)No abstract. -
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 ... -
English Language Teachers’ Beliefs and Concerns About Pronunciation Teaching in Uruguay
(Oasis database, 2019)This article reports on the concerns and issues which 28 experienced and well-qualified teachers expressed during individual semi-structured interviews with the researcher. It describes and discusses the participants’ ... -
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 ... -
One Brotherhood in Aotearoa New Zealand: Protest, resistance and Pacific reggae
(Michigan Publishing, the University of Michigan, 2018)The band Herbs has recently been formally recognized in Aotearoa New Zealand for its cultural expression and influence, and for the musicians’ political stance in an important period of activism. The band’s highly original ... -
“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 ... -
“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 ... -
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 ... -
‘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 ... -
A Languages Strategy for Auckland: Why and What Are The Issues?
(Faculty of Education and Social Work, the University of Auckland, 2015)No abstract. -
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. ... -
'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 ... -
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 ... -
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. -
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’ ... -
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 ...