Browsing by Author "Gurney, Laura"
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Collaborator, applied linguist, academic, expense? Exploring the professional identities of academic language and learning professionals
(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
(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
(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 ... -
‘Is it ever enough?’ Exploring academic language and learning advisory identities through small stories
(SAGE Publications, 2019)Contemporarily, higher education workplaces are characterised by collaboration, transitions, fluidity and the crossing of boundaries, where individuals are involved in ongoing negotiation of multilayered identities and ... -
Tracing new ground, from language to languaging, and from languaging to assemblages: rethinking languaging through the multilingual and ontological turns
(Informa UK Limited, 2019)This paper traces recent theorisation stemming from the multilingual turn and brings this into dialogue with assemblage thinking, discussing the critical potential of bringing these perspectives together to explore what ...
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Aro Mai Aro Atu: Raising Māori-medium students' academic oral language proficiency
(The University of Waikato, 2023)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
(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
(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
(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
(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, ...
