Staff

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Head of School

Dr Sasha Calhoun

Head of School
School of Linguistics and Applied Language Studies

sasha.calhoun@vuw.ac.nz
VZ 211, Von Zedlitz Building, 26 / 28 Kelburn Parade

Director, English Language Institute

Dr Angela Joe

Associate Dean, International

Wellington Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences

angela.joe@vuw.ac.nz
MY 308, Murphy Building, 21D Kelburn Parade

School manager (administration)

Bernie Hambleton

School Manager

School of Linguistics and Applied Language Studies

bernie.hambleton@vuw.ac.nz
VZ 212, Von Zedlitz Building, 26 / 28 Kelburn Parade

Administration staff

Sarah Hunn

School Administrator

School of Linguistics and Applied Language Studies

sarah.hunn@vuw.ac.nz
VZ 205, Von Zedlitz Building, 26 / 28 Kelburn Parade

Christal Guo

School Administrator
School of Linguistics and Applied Language Studies

christal.guo@vuw.ac.nz
VZ 210, Von Zedlitz Building, 26 / 28 Kelburn Parade

Dr Micky Vale

Research Fellow
School of Linguistics and Applied Language Studies · Deaf Studies Research Unit

VZ 314, Von Zedlitz Building, 26 / 28 Kelburn Parade

Sign Language Interpreter
Disability Services

micky.vale@vuw.ac.nz

Michelle Warshawsky

Administrator · Postgraduate Administrator
School of Linguistics and Applied Language Studies

michelle.warshawsky@vuw.ac.nz

Academic staff

Dr Oliver Ballance

Senior Lecturer in Applied Linguistics

School of Linguistics and Applied Language Studies

oliver.ballance@vuw.ac.nz

Research Areas: Vocabulary Corpus linguistics Computer-assisted language learning Language for specific purposes Second language acquisition Language learning, teaching, and a... read more

Dr Sasha Calhoun

Head of School
School of Linguistics and Applied Language Studies

sasha.calhoun@vuw.ac.nz
VZ 211, Von Zedlitz Building, 26 / 28 Kelburn Parade

Research Areas: The functions of prosody and intonation, i.e., the rhythm, timing and tune of speech... read more

Linguistics Pacific Peoples linguistics and languages Linguistic structures (incl. phonology, morphology and syntax) Phonetics and speech science Psycholinguistics (incl. speech production and comprehension)

Dr Victoria Chen

Senior Lecturer
School of Linguistics and Applied Language Studies

victoria.chen@vuw.ac.nz

Research Areas: Syntax, historical linguistics, diachronic morphosyntax, typology; Austronesian languages; Austronesian comparative linguistics... read more

South-East Asian languages (excl. Indonesian) Pacific Peoples linguistics and languages Linguistics Historical, comparative and typological linguistics

Dr Julieta Fernandez

Senior Lecturer

School of Linguistics and Applied Language Studies

julieta.fernandez@vuw.ac.nz

Research Areas: L2 pragmatics; interaction analysis; qualitative interviews; corpus-based discourse analysis; second language acquisition and pedagogy; qualitative me... read more

Discourse and pragmatics Applied linguistics and educational linguistics Language, communication and culture Teacher education and professional development of educators

Dr Peter Gu

Associate Professor

School of Linguistics and Applied Language Studies

peter.gu@vuw.ac.nz

Research Areas: Learner autonomy and learning strategies
Language testing and assessment
Vocabulary acquisition... read more

Education LOTE, ESL and TESOL curriculum and pedagogy Education assessment and evaluation Learning sciences Teacher education and professional development of educators Educational psychology English as a second language Applied linguistics and educational linguistics

Dr Rachel McKee

Associate Professor

School of Linguistics and Applied Language Studies

rachel.mckee@vuw.ac.nz
VZ VZ317, Von Zedlitz Building, 26 / 28 Kelburn Parade

Research Areas: Sociolinguistic variation in sign language; Teaching and learning sign language; Interpreting; Language policy and planning; Deaf community ethnography; Si... read more

Translation and interpretation studies Applied linguistics and educational linguistics Sociolinguistics Lexicography and semantics Linguistic structures (incl. phonology, morphology and syntax)

Dr Robby Nadler

Lecturer (Teaching)

School of Linguistics and Applied Language Studies

robby.nadler@vuw.ac.nz
VZ 403, Von Zedlitz Building, 26 / 28 Kelburn Parade

Science, technology and engineering curriculum and pedagogy Technical writing Discourse and pragmatics Language studies Creative arts and writing Creative and professional writing Feminist and queer theory Jewish studies Artificial intelligence

AProf Jonathan Newton

Associate Professor
School of Linguistics and Applied Language Studies

Research Areas: ◾ Task-based language teaching (TBLT)◾ Language teacher professional learning and development◾ Intercultural language teaching and learning◾ Teaching listenin... read more

Language, communication and culture English as a second language Applied linguistics and educational linguistics

Dr Matthew Packer

Lecturer
School of Linguistics and Applied Language Studies

matthew.packer@vuw.ac.nz

Sara Pivac Alexander

Senior Lecturer (Teaching)
School of Linguistics and Applied Language Studies

sara.pivacalexander@vuw.ac.nz
VZ 314, Von Zedlitz Building, 26 / 28 Kelburn Parade

Research Areas: Teaching and learning sign language, Deaf Studies... read more

Language, communication and culture Language studies

Rachael Ruegg

Senior Lecturer · Writing Programme Director
School of Linguistics and Applied Language Studies

rachael.ruegg@vuw.ac.nz
VZ 319, Von Zedlitz Building, 26 / 28 Kelburn Parade

Research Areas: Instruction and assessment of writing, Language testing and assessment, English for Academic Purposes (EAP), English medium instruction (EMI)... read more

Creative arts and writing Language studies Linguistics

Dr Corinne Seals

Associate Dean, Research · Associate Professor of Applied Linguistics
Wellington Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences

corinne.seals@vuw.ac.nz
VZ 405, Von Zedlitz Building, 26 / 28 Kelburn Parade

Research Areas: -Language and identity-Translanguaging, especially to support language reclamation efforts-Forensic linguistics (language, law, and crime)-Heritage and comm... read more

Language, communication and culture Multicultural, intercultural and cross-cultural studies Language studies Linguistics Applied linguistics and educational linguistics Discourse and pragmatics Sociolinguistics Crime and social justice Other law and legal studies not elsewhere classified Linguistics not elsewhere classified

Dr Anna Siyanova

Associate Professor
School of Linguistics and Applied Language Studies

anna.siyanova@vuw.ac.nz
VZ 203, Von Zedlitz Building, 26 / 28 Kelburn Parade

Research Areas: - second language acquisition- bilingualism - psycholinguistics- corpus linguistics- formulaic language- vocabulary- eye movements- EEG- behavioural methods... read more

Psychology Language, communication and culture Language studies English as a second language Linguistics Applied linguistics and educational linguistics

Dr Stephen Skalicky

Senior Lecturer
School of Linguistics and Applied Language Studies

stephen.skalicky@vuw.ac.nz
VZ 320, Von Zedlitz Building, 26 / 28 Kelburn Parade

Research Areas: Language and Cognition Figurative Language Natural Language Processing Computational Linguistics Satirical Discourse Lexical and syntactic development... read more

Psychology Linguistics Computational linguistics

ELI teachers

Jean Arnold

Senior ELI Teacher

School of Linguistics and Applied Language Studies

jean.arnold@vuw.ac.nz
VZ 502, Von Zedlitz Building, 26 / 28 Kelburn Parade

Ricky Barrow

ELI Teacher

School of Linguistics and Applied Language Studies

ricky.barrow@vuw.ac.nz
VZ 215, Von Zedlitz Building, 26 / 28 Kelburn Parade

Anna Dowling

Senior ELI Teacher

School of Linguistics and Applied Language Studies

anna.dowling@vuw.ac.nz
VZ 310, Von Zedlitz Building, 26 / 28 Kelburn Parade

Natasha Groves

Senior ELI Teacher

School of Linguistics and Applied Language Studies

natasha.groves@vuw.ac.nz
VZ 308, Von Zedlitz Building, 26 / 28 Kelburn Parade

Tim Edwards

Senior ELI Teacher

School of Linguistics and Applied Language Studies

tim.edwards@vuw.ac.nz
VZ 505, Von Zedlitz Building, 26 / 28 Kelburn Parade

Karen Falconer

Senior ELI Teacher

School of Linguistics and Applied Language Studies

karen.falconer@vuw.ac.nz
VZ 303, Von Zedlitz Building, 26 / 28 Kelburn Parade

Alison Hamilton-Jenkins

ASEAN Academic Program Manager

School of Linguistics and Applied Language Studies

alison.hamilton-jenkins@vuw.ac.nz
VZ 304, Von Zedlitz Building, 26 / 28 Kelburn Parade

Toby Harris

ELI Teacher

School of Linguistics and Applied Language Studies

toby.harris@vuw.ac.nz

Dr Ha Hoang

Senior ELI Teacher

School of Linguistics and Applied Language Studies

ha.hoang@vuw.ac.nz

Dr Le Nguyen

Senior ELI Teacher

School of Linguistics and Applied Language Studies

le.nguyen@vuw.ac.nz
VZ 214, Von Zedlitz Building, 26 / 28 Kelburn Parade

Natalia Petersen

Senior ELI Teacher
School of Linguistics and Applied Language Studies

natalia.petersen@vuw.ac.nz
VZ 305, Von Zedlitz Building, 26 / 28 Kelburn Parade

Nicky Riddiford

Senior ELI Teacher · Course Coordinator & Teacher, Skilled Migrant Programme
School of Linguistics and Applied Language Studies · English Language Institute