Browsing by Supervisor "Bruce, Ian"
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'Mama, am I always going to speak my beautiful languages?': Heritage language maintenance in New Zealand
(The University of Waikato, 2022)This study aimed to explore heritage language maintenance in New Zealand. Specifically, language beliefs, practices and education opportunities are investigated within the domains of family, community and education. A ... -
Bridging the mismatches between the lecturers’ and students’ beliefs about the value of written feedback on their assignments: A Private Malaysian University Case Study
(University of Waikato, 2015)This multi-method, qualitative study seeks to examine issues surrounding the purposes and roles of the written feedback provided by Malaysian lecturers in a private university on assessed student assignments written in ... -
Enhancing the Reading Engagement of University English Language Learners: An Action Research Project
(University of Waikato, 2015)Despite burgeoning research that has been conducted on the broad term “engagement” in the past decades, research into engagement in English as a Second Language (ESL) or English as a Foreign Language (EFL) contexts remains ... -
Changing perspectives on syllabus design in ELT: Textbook trends and tertiary teacher decision-making
(University of Waikato, 2014)By the mid-1900s, the impact of behaviourism and linguistic structuralism had led, in the area of second/ additional language teaching, to the development of structural syllabuses and audio-lingual methodology. It was not ... -
Understanding second language acquisition in relation to intentionality, epistemology and cognitive processes in an academic context: A realist perspective
(University of Waikato, 2014)This study investigated the nature of the second language acquisition (SLA) of eight international PhD students that occurred as they undertook the literature review when planning their doctoral research projects at a New ... -
Different or similar: patterns of lexical cohesion in Chinese non-narrative text and their applications in the study of Teaching Chinese as a Foreign Language-A corpus-based contrastive study
(University of Waikato, 2012)This study identifies and investigates patterns of lexical, cohesive devices in Chinese argument texts by two groups of writers: native speakers and learners of Chinese as a Foreign Language (hereafter CFL). The purposes ... -
Acts of reference and the miscommunication of referents by first and second language speakers of English
(University of Waikato, 2012)Central to communication are acts of reference, in which speakers clarify to hearers the identity of specific individuals (referents) through the use of referring expressions. Consequently, pragmatic competence in referring ...
