Browsing by Supervisor "Barnard, Roger"
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Acts of reference and the miscommunication of referents by first and second language speakers of English
(University of Waikato, 2012)Central to communication are acts of reference, in which speakers clarify to hearers the identity of specific individuals (referents) through the use of referring expressions. Consequently, pragmatic competence in referring ... -
An Integration of a Process Approach and Formative Assessment into the Development of Teaching and Learning of ESL Writing in a Malaysian University: A Sociocultural Perspective
(University of Waikato, 2014)A review of relevant literature indicates that assessment of students’ academic writing needs to include formative as well as summative feedback, especially when process approaches to the teaching of writing are adopted. ... -
Bridging the mismatches between the lecturers’ and students’ beliefs about the value of written feedback on their assignments: A Private Malaysian University Case Study
(University of Waikato, 2015)This multi-method, qualitative study seeks to examine issues surrounding the purposes and roles of the written feedback provided by Malaysian lecturers in a private university on assessed student assignments written in ... -
Challenges Faced – Implications for Policy: The Everyday Lives of Eastern European Women in New Zealand
(University of Waikato, 2016)This study explored the everyday lives, aspirations, and coping strategies of seven Eastern European immigrant women in New Zealand who came from Bulgaria, the former Eastern Germany, Hungary, Poland, Romania, Serbia, and ... -
Constructing Learner Autonomy Through Control Shift: Sociocultural Implications of Teacher Cognition and Practice in a Chinese Secondary School
(University of Waikato, 2016)Recognised as an educationally desirable goal, the development of learner autonomy (LA) has been extensively implemented and researched in various settings. Many have advocated that the goal can be achieved in a conventional ... -
Enhancing the Reading Engagement of University English Language Learners: An Action Research Project
(University of Waikato, 2015)Despite burgeoning research that has been conducted on the broad term “engagement” in the past decades, research into engagement in English as a Second Language (ESL) or English as a Foreign Language (EFL) contexts remains ... -
Form-focused instruction: A case study of Vietnamese teachers’ beliefs and practices
(University of Waikato, 2011)Despite the reported powerful influence of teachers’ beliefs on their pedagogical practices in the classroom, very few in-depth case studies of foreign language teachers’ beliefs and the correspondence between their beliefs ... -
Language, identity and parenting in acculturation: A case study of Saudi Arabian mothers sojourning in New Zealand
(The University of Waikato, 2019)The international education sector is rapidly growing in New Zealand, with increasing numbers of students arriving from Saudi Arabia under the scholarship scheme, with the firm intention of returning home at the end of ... -
Lusophonization returns? The condition of language policy and planning in a post-colonial plurilingual Timor-Leste
(University of Waikato, 2013)The present study examines the national language policy and language in education policy in Timor-Leste, a post-colonial nation that has adopted an exogenous language (Portuguese) and an autochthonous language (Tétun) to ... -
Moving towards normalising CALL: A case study from Timor-Leste
(University of Waikato, 2012)It is now widely understood that teachers are the main decision makers in the classroom, so when an innovation is introduced into a teaching and learning setting it seems that teachers‟ beliefs and attitudes may be a major ... -
On the fluidity of languages: A way out of the dilemma in English medium instruction classrooms in Thailand
(The University of Waikato, 2020)Nowadays internationalisation has become an aggressive agenda of growing strategic importance to tertiary education around the globe, driven by the influence of a highly competitive economy domestically and globally. A ... -
Oral corrective feedback in a blended learning environment: Challenges and contradictions faced by teachers in a Vietnamese university
(The University of Waikato, 2019)Although much research has investigated oral correction feedback (OCF), little has addressed EFL teachers’ cognition and practices about OCF provision in blended learning environments. This qualitative case study aims to ... -
Orienting to pedagogical innovation: A case study of Vietnamese teachers' beliefs and practices regarding Task-based Language Teaching
(University of Waikato, 2013)Although research into language teacher cognition has become a well-established domain of inquiry for applied linguists over the past few decades, few in-depth studies have explored language teachers’ beliefs regarding ... -
Rethinking formative assessment through peer observation and reflection: A case study of Pakistani ESL lecturers’ cognition and practices
(The University of Waikato, 2019)Peer observation can be applied to assess teachers’ performance. Despite an ever-growing corpus of literature on peer observation of teaching in education, very little research has been undertaken in tertiary level contexts ... -
Student agency in collaborative writing: A sociocognitive perspective
(The University of Waikato, 2020)There is a vast amount of literature on collaborative writing in second language teaching and learning, much of it inspired by Storch (2002 - 2015). Although the topic of collaborative writing has been researched extensively, ... -
The role that experiential learning plays in intercultural awareness development: A case study of South Korean students sojourning in New Zealand
(The University of Waikato, 2019)Research has shown that study abroad does help international students improve their language studies (Kinginger, 2011) and their understanding of another culture. Furthermore, the experience has often led to changes in the ... -
Understanding second language acquisition in relation to intentionality, epistemology and cognitive processes in an academic context: A realist perspective
(University of Waikato, 2014)This study investigated the nature of the second language acquisition (SLA) of eight international PhD students that occurred as they undertook the literature review when planning their doctoral research projects at a New ... -
University tutors’ beliefs about and practices in assessing undergraduates’ writing - A New Zealand case study
(University of Waikato, 2012)Although teacher cognition has been explored widely, university tutor cognition of professional activities, such as evaluating and giving written feedback on students’ written work, has rarely been explored. Very few studies ...
