2020 events

A History of /s/-retraction in New Zealand English


Investigating Air Traffic Controllers’ language use in emergency situations: Roger, Wilco


Foreign, illegal prostitutes’: migrant sex work and the media

  • Presenter: Matilda Neyland, Victoria University of Wellington

Building the body as a site of pleasure: Contributions from embodied sociolinguistics

  • Presenter: Shannon Couper, Victoria University of Wellington

Field Work, Data, Analysis, and Difficulties: Oroha Documentation in Unprecedented Times

  • Presenter: Darren Flavelle, Victoria University of Wellington
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Language in the Workplace: from Austria to Zanzibar

  • Presenter: Bernadette Vine, Victoria University of Wellington
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Undergraduate reading and writing requirements at VUW

  • Presenter: Rachael Ruegg and Aynur Ismayilli Karakoc, Victoria University of Wellington
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Who’s laughing now? Humorous resolutions to conflict in preschoolers’ interactions

  • Presenter: Anna Strycharz-Banas (Education), Miriam Meyerhoff, & Carmen Dalli (Education), Victoria University of Wellington
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Classroom talk in vocational education

  • Presenter: Jean Parkinson and Averil Coxhead, Victoria University of Wellington
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Investigating vocabulary and textbooks: Case studies from Indonesia and China

  • Presenter: Yuri Rahmat, Lu Yang, and Averil Coxhead, Victoria University of Wellington
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Socially Responsive Translanguaging in Support of Language Reclamation

  • Presenter: Corinne Seals, Victoria University of Wellington
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Grammar rules OK?


What matters in vocabulary learning?


Learning of pragmatic formulaic sequences through multimodal input: The role of genre and highlighting


Public Lecture: Children’s productive use of academic vocabulary

  • Presenter: Professor Richard Anderson, University Scholar and Professor Emeritus University of Illinois
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Public Lecture: The Ambiguity of Glottonyms: Scholarly depictions of Juraj Križanić


LALS Staff Seminar

  • Presenter: LALS Staff, Victoria University of Wellington
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Cognitive Creativity as an Individual Difference in SLA research


Linguistic discrimination in urban apartment searches: Names and accents across neighborhoods