Browsing by Author "Gurney, Laura"

• Assemblage drawings as talking points: Deleuze, posthumans and climate-activist teachers 

  Everth, Thomas; Gurney, Laura; Eames, Chris (Cambridge University Press (CUP), 2022-12-01)

  In this paper, we employ Deleuzian philosophy to explore the complex challenges confronting teachers and education systems posed by the climate emergency and the implications of the resulting posthumanist turn. Self-identified ...

  

• Can nonhumans speak? Languaging and worlds in posthumanist applied linguistics 

  Demuro, Eugenia; Gurney, Laura (Walter de Gruyter GmbH, 2023-09-01)

  This paper mobilises posthumanism as a way to theorise and articulate what language(s)/languagingmay be for nonhuman animals. This is investigated via various concepts brought together: we turn to the on-tological turn in ...

  

• Collaborator, applied linguist, academic, expense? Exploring the professional identities of academic language and learning professionals 

  Fenton-Smith, Ben; Gurney, Laura (2022)

  The complex role of academic language and learning (ALL) professionals in higher education is poorly understood, even though it contributes to key outcomes such as improved study skills, academic language enhancement, ...

  

• Conceptualising “unexpectedness” during the doctorate 

  Hosseini, Seyed Hossein; Gurney, Laura (Wilf Malcolm Institute of Educational Research, 2022)

  The doctoral research process has been metaphorically described as a “journey” (Edwards & Mackay, 2012; McAlpine & Amundsen, 2009; Rath & Mutch, 2014; Skakni, 2018a, 2018b). While the doctoral journey has the potential to ...

  

• Exploring languaging through an ontological register 

  Gurney, Laura; Demuro, Eugenia (NatureCulture, 2022-03-01)

  Law and Mol (2020) provide an insightful critique to dominant approaches to language, arguing that “to talk of language is to imply that it is possible to disentangle how people talk (or sign or write) from the practices ...

  

• Aro mai aro atu: Raising Māori-medium students' academic oral language proficiency 

  Shandley, Rosina Mary (The University of Waikato, 2022)

  From the early 1860s, colonial governments worked systematically to eradicate the language and culture of the indigenous people of Aotearoa / New Zealand, and, by the late 1960s, the death of the Māori language was being ...

  

• Between the lines: A critical realist discourse analysis of inclusive education policy development in Malaysia from 1996 to 2018 

  Chin Lee Lee, Mellisa (The University of Waikato, 2023)

  Enhancing access to equitable and quality education for children with special educational needs in Malaysia has been a vexing policy issue. Within these debates, its inclusive education policy has been nationally promoted ...

  

• Content and language integrated learning in practice: Exploring pre-service EFL teachers’ beliefs and negotiation of meaning of subject-specific language in Thai secondary classrooms 

  Tachaiyaphum, Nutthida (The University of Waikato, 2023)

  The demand for English in Thailand has been increasing rapidly due to socio-political developments and the continuing growth of the economy. For Thai students, being proficient in English can enhance their education and ...

  

• Exploring teachers' knowledge and practice of multiliteracies pedagogy: A narrative inquiry 

  Yap, Jia Rong (The University of Waikato, 2023)

  Multiliteracies encapsulates literacy that is understood as deictic and plural. Furthermore, advances in digital technologies and digital spaces are encouraging the emergence of new literacy practices and new texts. This ...

  

• Professional learning in a Vietnamese university language teaching context: An inquiry-driven approach 

  Phan, Thy Canh Minh (The University of Waikato, 2020)

  This study investigated the engagement in an inquiry process of six EFL (English as a foreign language) teachers from two Vietnamese universities, and how the inquiry process shaped the teachers’ professional learning, ...

  

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