Browsing by Author "Bruce, Ian"
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The arguing genre and the explaining genre: A comparison in terms of discourse relational analyses of texts written in English and texts written in Maori
(School of Māori and Pacific Development, The University of Waikato, 2005)There is a commonly held belief that those who are immersed in indigenous cultures have a tendency, when constructing academic texts, to avoid sequential, deductive argumentation. We report here on a comparison of two ... -
Cognitive genre prototype modelling and its implications for the teaching of academic writing to learners of English as a second language
(The University of Waikato, 2003)The overall aim of this research project is to identify and analyse recurring prototypical discourse patterns in academic writing in English in order to inform the teaching of writing for academic purposes to non ... -
Cognitive genre structures in Methods sections of research articles: A corpus study
(Elsevier, 2008)This paper reports a corpus investigation of the Methods sections of research-reporting articles in academic journals. In published pedagogic materials, Swales and Feak [Swales, J. M., & Feak, C. (1994). Academic writing ... -
Creating a curriculum for indigenous and community languages: Te reo Māori as an example
(School of Māori and Pacific Development, The University of Waikato, 2002)Part 1 of this paper introduces the draft Common European Framework of Reference (CEFR) for languages and describes how it was used in the construction of draft New Zealand curriculum guidelines for French and German. Part ... -
Developing a draft learning progression framework for ESOL in New Zealand schools
(Wilf Malcolm Institute of Educational Research, The University of Waikato, 2005)Early in 2003 we were commissioned to produce a draft Learning Progression Framework (LPF) for ESOL in the New Zealand curriculum. The draft Framework was completed in June 2003 and entered the consultation round. In ...
