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"I don't think we're seen as a nuisance" - The Positioning of Postgraduate Learning Advisors in New Zealand Universities

Strauss, P (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 ...

I Know How to Add Them, I Didn't Know I Had to Add Them

Jhagroo, J (Australian Journal of Teacher Education, 2015)

Ten non-English speaking immigrant students shared their lived experiences in their secondary school mathematics classrooms in New Zealand. Through the voices of these students some understandings of the challenges they ...

I love you - goodbye: exit interviews and turnover in the New Zealand hotel industry [Online]

Williamson, D; Harris, C; Parker, J (ER Publishing Ltd, 2008)

Given the very tight labour market, skill shortages and staff retention have become major issues in the hotel industry. Furthermore, voluntary turnover incurs considerable expense as it is a labour intense service industry. ...

I love you – goodbye: Exit interviews and turnover in the New Zealand hotel industry

Williamson, D; Harris, C; Gent, S (Association of Industrial Relations Academics of Australia and New Zealand (AIRAANZ), 2008)

This paper presents findings from data analysis of exit interviews conducted in two hotel brands. One covers 2004 and 2005 and is a large New Zealand hotel chain with 15 sites. The quantitative data for this brand was ...

IELTS and an English for academic study programme: points of similarity and areas of divergence

Turner, E; U, A; Cartner, H; Jenner, C; Mann, E (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 ...

Immigrant students in the classroom: a spiral-threads-of-transition model

Jhagroo, J (School of Education, AUT University, 2012)

In this paper I present my rationale for the development and use of a spiral-threads-of-transition model in the doctoral study that I completed this year. Using a hermeneutic phenomenological approach I examined the lived ...

The impact of economic and social human rights in New Zealand case law

McGregor, J; Wilson, M (The Australian Human Rights Centre, 2015)

Although New Zealand has traditionally relied on ‘positive progressive realisation’ of economic, social and cultural rights (ESCR) through public policy decision-making, recently there has been small number of cases relying ...

Improving psychological skill in trainee interpreters

Atkinson, DP; Crezee, I (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'?

Denny, HG; Roskvist, A.; Englefield, B. (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

Denny, HG (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

Grant, L (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

Cameron, DL (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

Cameron, DL (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 ...

In the Market for an ECE Transition-to-school Programme?

Benade, L; De Lautour, N; Stover, S; Stewart, G (Addleton Academic Publishers, 2017)

This article draws on a small evaluation research project, conducted in one early childhood education (ECE) centre in Auckland, New Zealand, with the aim of supporting its capacity for self-review. The centre management ...

Incorporating service learning into New Zealand hospitality education: benefits and issues

Aldridge, A; Williamson, D; Harris, C (Council for Australian University Tourism and Hospitality Education (CAUTHE), 2010)

This paper discusses the benefits of offering a service learning component in the current New Zealand hospitality education curriculum. The paper is conceptual and draws on literature to build a justification for including ...

Indigenous Maori and Tongan perspectives on the role of Tongan language and culture in the community and in the University in Aotearoa-New Zealand

Kepa, TMA; Manu'atu, L (University of Nebraska Press, 2006)

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