Browsing by Author "Johnson, Diane"

• A contextualized report on the impact of pre-service training on language teachers in Taiwan 

  Johnson, Diane (Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2015)

  The beliefs and practices of contemporary language teachers who have undergone professional training are expected to reflect some of the major changes and developments that have been reported in the literature on language ...

  

• Developing a draft learning progression framework for ESOL in New Zealand schools 

  Crombie, Winifred; Bruce, Ian; Johnson, Diane (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 ...

  

• English language teaching in New Zealand: Against all odds? 

  Johnson, Diane (Nova Publishers, 2015)

  English language teaching (ELT) is a multi-billion dollar sector of the New Zealand education system. This system, in spite of a high level of international respect, has been ambivalent to the teaching and learning of ...

  

• Exploring discrepancies between beliefs and practices in ESL curriculum and syllabus design 

  Fester, Anthea Marcelle; Johnson, Diane (Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2015)

  In response to a questionnaire-based survey of teachers of English as a second language (ESL) (involving a sample of teachers from five different countries), more than one third indicated that the institution in which they ...

  

• International languages in New Zealand secondary schools and universities: Coherence, consistency and transparency 

  Johnson, Diane (The University of Waikato, 2000)

  The overall aim of this research is to provide an up-to-date survey and critical evaluation of aspects of the teaching and learning of international languages other than English in secondary schools and, to a more limited ...

  

• Case roles / relations and discourse relations: A Maori language-based perspective 

  Whaanga, Hēmi (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 

  Oh, Kyoungja (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 

  Parchwitz, Jörg-Alexander (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 

  Umeda, Keiko (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 

  Fester, Anthea Marcelle (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 ...

  

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