Browsing by Supervisor "Johnson, Diane"
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Beyond structuralism: Exploring a semantic based approach for describing the Māori language in grammar books and textbooks for pedagogical purposes
(The University of Waikato, 2023)Since the 1950s, the advancements and developments in English language studies has had a profound impact on its description that has made it less syntactically driven and more communicatively oriented. This has the potential ... -
Case roles / relations and discourse relations: A Maori language-based perspective
(The University of Waikato, 2006)The overall aim of this research project is to explore case roles/ relations and discourse relations (referred to in this thesis as 'intra-propositional relations' and 'interpropositional relations' respectively) from the ... -
The teaching and learning of English at secondary school level in South Korea: The curriculum and its implementation
(University of Waikato, 2016)This thesis explores the professional attitudes and practices of a sample of teachers of English in South Korean secondary schools in the context of a focus point-based analysis of the South Korean national curriculum and ... -
The Teaching of German as an Additional Language in Tertiary Institutions in Taiwan
(University of Waikato, 2015)The research reported here explored the backgrounds, attitudes and professional practices of a sample of teachers of German working in the tertiary education sector in Taiwan using a mixed methods approach involving a ... -
The teaching of English in secondary schools in Japan: From curriculum to the classroom
(University of Waikato, 2014)It has often been observed that there is a significant gap between the aspirations for the teaching of English as expressed in Japanese Ministry of Education curriculum guidelines and the reality of classroom practice. ... -
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 ... -
Te whakaako i te reo Māori i te kura auraki tuarua i Aotearoa nei: Kei tua o te awe māpere. The teaching of te reo Māori in English-medium secondary schools in New Zealand: Beyond the mask.
(University of Waikato, 2014)He taonga te reo Māori nō tuawhakarere, nō tuauriuri, whāioio, nā te atua i homai kia poipoia e te iwi Māori hei reo kōrero mō te hunga kaingākau, mō te hunga kāore anō kia whānau noa. Ahakoa ia he toimaha tonu te hauora ... -
The teaching and learning of Hawaiian in mainstream educational contexts in Hawai‘i: Time for change?
(University of Waikato, 2012)There are estimated to be fewer than 1,000 native speakers of Hawaiian language (ka ‘ōlelo Hawai‘i) in Hawai‘i. The majority of those who now learn Hawaiian do so in mainstream educational contexts and the majority of ... -
Texts written in English and Chinese by expert and novice writers: A genre-based study and its implications for the teaching of writing
(University of Waikato, 2011)This thesis aims to contribute to the design and implementation of genre-based academic writing courses intended for learners of English in Taiwan by (a) examining the ways in which Taiwanese speakers of Chinese as a first ... -
The Common European Framework of Reference for Languages: A critical analysis of its impact on a sample of teachers and curricula within and beyond Europe
(University of Waikato, 2011)The situation facing European countries after World War II provided the social and political context in which the Council of Europe began its deliberations on language and culture, deliberations that eventually led (in ... -
Genre, academic writing and e-learning: An integrated tertiary level Taiwan-based study
(The University of Waikato, 2010)The research reported here has two main focus points: online learning and the teaching of academic writing to learners of English as an additional language. At its core is a study involving an intensive genre-centered ...
