2025 events

Using tasks as a lever to achieve curriculum aspirations

  • 26 September, 2025 from 1.10 pm - 2.00 pm
  • Presenter: Phuong Nguyen, PhD Student, School of Linguistics and Applied Language Studies, Victoria University of Wellington
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Kia ora koutou and welcome to this kōrero! NZSL interpreter strategies for rendering codeswitching (English/ Te Reo Māori) from spoken source texts

  • 12 September, 2025 from 1.10 pm - 2.00 pm
  • Presenters: Associate Professor Rachel McKee and Melissa Simchowitz (MA), Victoria University of Wellington.
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Two talks: "Grammatical processing difficulties in L2 reading comprehension" (Presenter: Tuan Bui) and "Inflight identities: Barf bags and other semiotic resources" (Presenter: John Macalister)

  • 15 August, 2025 from 1.10 pm - 2.00 pm
  • Presenters: Tuan Bui, PhD Candidate and Professor John Macalister, School of Linguistics and Applied Language Studies, Victoria University of Wellington
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How Children Learn to Focus: Developmental Trajectories of Prosodic Focus in Mandarin Chinese

  • 25 July, 2025 from 1.10 pm - 2.00 pm
  • Presenter: Associate Professor, Dr Yan Mengzhu, School of Foreign Languages, Huazhong University of Science and Technology
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An Interactional Sociolinguistic Approach to Identity Construction among Non-Māori Participants in Te Reo Māori Revitalisation

  • 11 July, 2025 from 1.10 pm - 2.00 pm
  • Presenter: Travis Richardson, PhD Candidate , Department of Linguistics, Georgetown University and Victoria University of Wellington
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Investigating source use in L2 student writing: vocabulary, development and stakeholder perceptions (work-in-progress)

  • 6 June, 2025 from 1.10 pm - 2.00 pm
  • Presenter: Gergely Kajos, PhD student, School of Education, University of Leeds
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A typology of raising to object, with special reference to Austronesian

  • 23 May, 2025 from 1.10 pm - 2.00 pm
  • Presenter: Benji Fowler, Masters student, School of Linguistics and Applied Language Studies, Victoria University of Wellington
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Promoting De-colonizing Pedagogy through Translanguaging: A Case Study

  • 16 May, 2025 from 4.10 pm - 5.00 pm
  • Presenter: Professor Professor Fan Fang, Shantou University
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Report from the field: Fieldwork in East Santo (Nkep)

*Mas*ter your obligations! Colonisation-induced grammatical change in Vanuatu’s indigenous languages

  • 23 April, 2025 from 1.10 pm - 2.00 pm
  • Presenter: Dr Tihomir Rangelov, Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology
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Systematic Integration of Local Culture in English Lessons to Enhance English Proficiency

  • 08 April, 2025 from 12.00 pm - 1.00 pm
  • Presenter: Professor Budsaba Kanoksilapatham, Silpakorn University
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Move Analysis of Academic and Professional Discourse: From Patterns to Publications and Successful Workplace Communication

  • 07 April, 2025 from 12.00 pm - 1.00 pm
  • Presenter: Professor Budsaba Kanoksilapatham, Silpakorn University
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Why do native speakers of stress-timed English not consider stress an important linguistic feature?

  • 28 March, 2025 from 1.10 pm - 2.00 pm
  • Presenter: Prof. Laurie Bauer, School of Linguistics and Applied Language Studies, Victoria University of Wellington
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Conversion/Zero-derivation: 2000-2025

  • 05 March, 2025 from 1.10 pm - 2.00 pm
  • Presenter: Associate Professor, Dr Salvador Valera Hernandez, Department of English and German, University of Granada
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Lessons learned from language learning research in the classroom and the laboratory: Potential and pitfalls

  • 07 March, 2025 from 1.10 pm - 2.00 pm
  • Presenter: Professor Justin Harris, Kindai University, Osaka, Japan
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