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2019 events

Choosing a Mother Tongue - Book Launch

  • Presenter: Corinne Seals, School of Linguistics and Applied Language Studies, Victoria University of Wellington
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PhD Celebration and Presentation

  • Presenter: Mark Toomer, School of Linguistics and Applied Language Studies, Victoria University of Wellington
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Assessing academic vocabulary knowledge in more depth

  • Presenter: John Read, Professor Emeritus, The University of Auckland
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The Development of English L2 Phrase Knowledge in a Listen and Repeat Test Format

  • Presenter: David Coulson, Graduate School of Language Education and Information Science, Ritsumeikan University, Japan
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Translations of academic vocabulary in English

  • Presenter: Kimberly Skjelde, PhD Candidate, Department of Foreign Languages, University of Bergen, Norway
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Multiple case studies on the practice of EFL teachers at a Vietnamese university

How did teachers implement the task-based textbook and what did they say about their teaching from that textbook?

  • Presenter: Hao Dao, PhD candidate, School of  Linguistics and Applied Language Studies, Victoria University of Wellington

How is culture teaching/learning perceived by teachers/learners? What culture teaching is evident in teachers’ practices?

  • Presenter: Minh Ta, PhD candidate, School of  Linguistics and Applied Language Studies, Victoria University of Wellington

Introducing innovations in EFL teaching: Case studies from Thailand and Vietnam.

  • Presenter: Thi Phuong Thao Tran & Paweena Jaruteerapan, PhD candidates, School of  Linguistics and Applied Language Studies, Victoria University of Wellington
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A listening textbook in the EFL classrooms at a Chinese university

  • Presenter: Judy Wei, PhD candidate, School of  Linguistics and Applied Language Studies, Victoria University of Wellington

What do we talk about when we talk about assessing listening?

  • Presenter: Diep Tran, PhD candidate, School of  Linguistics and Applied Language Studies, Victoria University of Wellington

Identities and Ideologies in Study Abroad Contexts (PhD Celebration)

  • Presenter: Shelley Dawson, School of  Linguistics and Applied Language Studies, Victoria University of Wellington
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Approaches to Reading in South East Asia

  • Presenters: Say Phonekeo & Hong Phuong Thao Le, PhD candidates, School of  Linguistics and Applied Language Studies, Victoria University of Wellington
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Speed reading: The next generation

  • Presenters: TJ Boutorwick, LALS PhD alumnus, Learning Adviser | Te Taiako Student Learning
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Discursive navigation of employable identities in the narratives of former refugees (PhD Celebration)

  • Presenters: Emily Greenbank, LALS PhD Alumnus, Learning Adviser | Te Taiako Student Learning
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What is the lexicon of spoken rugby discourse?

  • Presenter: Stuart Benson, PhD Candidate, School of Linguistics and Applied Language Studies, Victoria University of Wellington

How do teachers teach listening in the English for Academic Purposes classroom?

  • Presenter: Naheen Madarbakus-Ring, PhD Candidate, School of Linguistics and Applied Language Studies, Victoria University of Wellington

What are English Language Institute teachers working on in their language programmes?

  • Presenters: ELI Teachers, School of Linguistics and Applied Language Studies, Victoria University of Wellington
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Comparing vowel movements: Dynamic vs. static comparisons of diphthongal vowels

  • Presenter: Paul Warren, School of Linguistics and Applied Language Studies, Victoria University of Wellington
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Asymmetries in Tagalog relative clauses: Insights from child language

  • Presenter: Nozomi Tanaka, Assistant Professor, Indiana University & Amber Camp PhD Candidate, University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa
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Production and Perception of Prosody and Information Structure

  • Presenter: Mengzhu Yan & Olcay Turk, PhD Candidates, School of Linguistics and Applied Language Studies, Victoria University of Wellington
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Ian Gordon Fellow Lecture: When Learning to Speak is a Challenge

  • Presenter: Professor Lucie Ménard, Université du Québec à Montréal
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Our language on outsider’s tongues: Situating non-heritage language users of Native American languages

  • Presenter: Assistant Professor Jenny Davis, at the University of Illinois
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Reading Tone in Vietnamese: A Preliminary Psycholinguistic and Sociolinguistic Study

  • Presenter: Rolando Coto-Solano, Lecturer, School of Linguistics and Applied Language Studies, Victoria University of Wellington
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Empirical studies on enhancing L2 learners’ uptake of multiword expressions (MWEs)

The effects of repeated viewing and typographically enhanced captions in incidental and intentional acquisition of MWEs

  • Presenter: Elvenna Majuddin, PhD Candidate, School of Linguistics and Applied Language Studies, Victoria University of Wellington

How does learners’ perceived transparency of idioms affect L2 idiom retention?

  • Presenter: Xinqing (Aileen) Wang, PhD Candidate, School of Linguistics and Applied Language Studies, Victoria University of Wellington

An argument-based framework for validating formative assessment in the classroom

What is classroom-based formative assessment? How do we know if it’s good or bad?

  • Presenter: Associate Professor Peter Gu, School of Linguistics and Applied Language Studies, Victoria University of Wellington
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The good, the ugly and the beautiful: Linguistic fieldwork and a community orthography project on Malekula Island

  • Presenter: Brittany Hoback, PhD Candidate, School of Linguistics and Applied Language Studies, Victoria University of Wellington
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Extracting Multiword Expressions from Texts with the Aid of Online Resources: A Classroom Experiment

  • Presenter: Thuy Bui, PhD Candidate, School of Linguistics and Applied Language Studies, Victoria University of Wellington
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Developing a college English coursebook series for Chinese university students

  • Presenter: Jack Richards, School of Linguistics and Applied Language Studies, Victoria University of Wellington
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