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 ...
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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 ...
