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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 ... -
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 ... -
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 concepts of pronunciation: syllables, stress and drunk snails
(International Association of Teachers of English as a Foreign Language (IATEFL), 2014)No abstract. -
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). ... -
"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 ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
An emerging framework for ethnography of adult mathematical and numeracy practices
(Adults Learning Mathematics, 2013)This paper presents a potential ethnographical framework for examining in-situ adult mathematical practices. It results from a meta-analysis of over 400 articles and reports published on adult mathematics and numeracy ... -
What’s Be Happen? The discourse of reggae lyrics thirty years on
(University of Otago, 2012)This article discusses What’s Be Happen?, New Zealand’s first reggae album, released by the band Herbs in July 1981. The lyrics and adopted ‘message music’ constitute a nexus that connects, marks and speaks of salient ... -
Making the implicit explicit: raising pragmatic awareness in trainee interpreters, using semi-authentic spontaneous discourse samples
(TESOL, 2012)Following the recent interest in the teaching of pragmatics and the recognition of its importance for both cross-cultural communication and new speakers of an additional language, the authors carried out an action research ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
'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). ... -
Discourse analysis of popular song lyrics
(AUT University, 2011)This paper outlines a thesis that involves a three-tier approach to the discourse analysis of historically and culturally significant song lyrics in the New Zealand album Whats’ Be Happen? (Herbs, 1981). The study is framed ... -
English phonology and pronunciation teaching [Book Review] [online]
(Applied Linguistics Association of New Zealand, 2011)Review(s) of: English phonology and pronunciation teaching, by Rogerson-Revell, P. (2011), London: Continuum. ISBN: 978-0-8264-2403-7. 19.99 pounds. 352 pp. -
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 ... -
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 ...