Browsing by Author "Daly, Nicola"
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Audiences, referees, and landscapes: Understanding the use of Māori and English in New Zealand dual language picturebooks through a sociolinguistic lens
(Victoria University Press, 2017)When non-dominant perspectives are represented in children's literature, it is labelled multicultural, and this form of literature has much potential for altering existing power structures in society. Bishop (1990) first ... -
Cross Continental Readings of Visual Narratives: An analysis of Six Books in the New Zealand PictureBook Collection
(2015)This article argues that, by analyzing the ways in which illustrators use certain visual codes, we can learn much about a country's history/culture and demonstrates this by analyzing the visual narratives of six picture ... -
Kūkupa, koro, and kai: The use of Māori vocabulary items in New Zealand English children's picture books
(Victoria University of Wellington, School of Linguistics and Applied Language Studies, 2007)When a linguistic form from one language is used in another language, such words are known as borrowings or loan words (Crystal 2003: 56). The English language is renowned for its large capacity for borrowing and it has ... -
Language-as-resource: Language strategies used by New Zealand teachers working in an international multilingual setting
(Edith Cowan University, 2018)Research indicates that teachers can face challenges in knowing how to support language learners because they often have minimal training in teaching language learners in mainstream contexts (Martin, 2004; Sharma et al., ... -
Motivation and the reciprocal nature of professional learning between New Zealand teachers working with untrained Indian teachers
(Wilf Malcolm Institute of Educational Research, 2017)In this article eight volunteer participants in a programme for untrained teachers in India are interviewed concerning their motivation to participate in the work, and also the challenges faced and the rewards gained. ...
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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 ...
