• 13 ways of looking at a poem: How discourses of reading shape pedagogical practice in English. 

  Locke, Terry (Faculty of Education, University of Waikato, 2003)

  Different discourses of reading construct differing ways of reading texts. This article illustrates such differences by showing how three contrasting ways of interrogating a literary text arise from three contrasting ...

  

• Beyond shrek: fairy tale magic in the multicultural classroom 

  Sturgess, Janet; Locke, Terry (Routledge, 2009)

  This article draws on a recent research project in New Zealand on teaching literature in the multicultural classroom. Its focus is on how one teacher-researcher used the cultural and linguistic diversity of a junior, ...

• Book review: "A Tingling Catch": A century of NZ cricket poems 1864-2009. 

  Locke, Terry (New Zealand Association for the Teaching of English, 2011)

  The article reviews the book "A Tingling Catch: A Century of NZ Cricket Poems 1864-2009," edited by Mark Pirie.

  

• Book review: Dear Sweet Harry 

  Locke, Terry (2010)

  This article reviews the book: “Dear Sweet Harry”, by Lynn Jenner.

  

• Book review: Shift 

  Locke, Terry (New Zealand Association for the Teaching of English, 2011)

  The article reviews the book "Shift," by Rhian Gallagher.

  

• The writing of assignments in a pre-service primary education programme: Student and staff perspectives 

  Gera, Christina Mary (The University of Waikato, 2017)

  The writing of assignments by tertiary students is an area that merits exploration due to the high stakes involved for students, staff and institutions. Generally, in order for students to pass courses, they need to write ...

  

• Systematically planning and integrating intercultural communicative competence learning/teaching into the EFL curriculum/classroom to promote students’ learning motivation and confidence in ICC: A practitioner research at a tertiary institution in China 

  Li, Lanping (University of Waikato, 2017)

  Although ICC teaching/learning in foreign language classrooms has been explored over the past few decades, few studies have experimented with systematically planning and integrating ICC teaching/learning in the EFL classroom ...

  

• Developing EFL students' communicative skills through content-based instruction: A case study of EFL teaching in an undergraduate degree program at a tertiary institution in Indonesia 

  Eryansyah, Eryansyah (University of Waikato, 2017)

  This thesis reports on a mixed-methods case study, where the researcher as practitioner explored the effectiveness of a content-based instructional approach in improving the communication skills and motivation of a group ...

  

• "In this class automatic my words come out": Implementing process drama in two Malaysian English language-learning contexts 

  Abdul Samat, Norhanim (University of Waikato, 2016)

  This thesis looked at the impact of process drama implementation in two English language-learning contexts in the southern part of Malaysia. My aim of this study was to examine whether process drama was a possible method ...

  

• Can I teach these students? A case study of Vietnamese teachers’ self-efficacy in relation to teaching English as a foreign language 

  Phan, Nga Thi Tuyet (University of Waikato, 2015)

  The study looked at factors that influenced the self-efficacy in teaching English as a Foreign Language (EFL) of a group of university teachers in Vietnam. Previous studies yielded contradictory results regarding the sources ...

  

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