Browsing by Supervisor "Gurney, Laura"
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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 ... -
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 ... -
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, ... -
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 ...
