Browsing by Supervisor "Daly, Nicola"
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Children’s negotiation of meanings about geometric shapes and their properties in a New Zealand multilingual primary classroom
(The University of Waikato, 2022)New Zealand is a nation of superdiversity in terms of ethnicities and languages spoken. This superdiversity is reflected in New Zealand multilingual classrooms. In the New Zealand primary school mathematics curriculum, the ... -
Negotiating fairness and diversity: Stories from an Aotearoa New Zealand kindergarten
(The University of Waikato, 2018)A number of research studies have utilised ‘working theories’, a key learning outcome of Te Whāriki, the Aotearoa New Zealand curriculum, as a lens to explore pedagogy in early childhood education. The perceived gap that ... -
Oceanic languages: A comparative investigation of pre-clausal constructions
(University of Waikato, 2017)This thesis presents an investigation of pre-clausal phenomena in the lesser-studied languages of the Oceanic language family. The study is innovative in that the pre-clausal structure of interest, hereinafter labelled as ... -
Year 7 and 8 Teachers' Understandings, Beliefs and Practices around the Teaching of Grammar in Relation to the Teaching of Writing
(University of Waikato, 2016)In recent times, and in fact over the past five decades, the importance of teachers’ knowledge of grammar and the teaching of grammar has encountered a resurgence of interest on the world stage as it has done within the ... -
The Effects of a Shared Reading Intervention on the English Reading Skills of Year One Students in a Level Two Māori-medium Educational Context
(University of Waikato, 2014)One of the biggest challenges confronting literacy education in Aotearoa New Zealand is accommodating the differences in English reading-related variables at school entry to produce equitable outcomes in later reading ... -
Exemplary teachers' approaches to supporting vocabulary development during shared reading
(University of Waikato, 2014)An analysis of recent PIRLS (Progress in International Reading Literacy Study) data has shown that a group of New Zealand children are struggling to learn to read well. Vocabulary knowledge supports reading in a number of ... -
Adult dyslexia in New Zealand: The professional development needs of adult literacy educators
(University of Waikato, 2013)The needs of New Zealand adults with dyslexia are typically not sufficiently catered for in the tertiary education system (Rowan, 2010a; Tunmer & Greaney, 2010). In recent years efforts have been made to increase training ... -
Japanese language teaching in Malaysia and New Zealand: Recent history, current practice and curriculum
(University of Waikato, 2012)Comparisons of curriculum have been shown to be useful in terms of finding new ideas to raise the standard of education in one country and to enhance global competitiveness (Adamson & Morris, 2007). The purpose of the ... -
E Toru Ngā Reo: A Case Study of a Spanish Language Programme in a Kura Kaupapa Māori
(University of Waikato, 2012)Learning Languages is a new area in the 2007 New Zealand Curriculum. However there have not been many studies in this subject. Kura Kaupapa Māori, established in 1985 in New Zealand with over 6,000 students currently ... -
Teacher Development for English Language Teaching in China: Based on English Language Teachers' Beliefs and Practices in New Zealand
(University of Waikato, 2011)This study inquired into English language teachers’ beliefs and practices in China and in New Zealand, and explored the process of using New Zealand English language teachers’ beliefs and practices as a stimulus in promoting ... -
The Effects of a Phonological Awareness and Alphabet Knowledge Intervention on Four Year Old Kindergarten Children
(University of Waikato, 2011)Phonological awareness and alphabet knowledge are two of the strongest predictors of reading acquisition. Many New Zealand children are entering school with low levels of emergent literacy skills, so an important area of ... -
Dynamic conceptions of input, output and interaction: Vietnamese EFL lecturers learning second language acquisition theory
(University of Waikato, 2011)Although research into language teacher learning and cognition and teaching innovations oriented to communicative tasks has been abundant, little has addressed EFL teachers’ learning and conceiving of SLA principles ...
