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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 ... -
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, ... -
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 ... -
Moving Out of Our Comfort Zones to Make a Difference - Do We Really Want To?
(Higher Education Close Up (HECU), 2014)In this paper I would like to focus on postgraduate teaching and supervision. I ask whether some of the issues raised by our keynote speakers could not be meaningfully addressed by academics if they were willing to think ... -
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 ...