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Academic Reading and Pacific Students: Profiling Texts, Tasks & Readers in the First Year of University in New Zealand

Toumu'a, Mary Ruth (Victoria University of Wellington, 2012)

Central to tertiary study in the literate world is the storage, transmission and retrieval of knowledge via the written word through the complex, multi-faceted and largely invisible process of academic reading. With New ...
An Acoustic Analysis of New Zealand English Vowels in Auckland

Ross, Brooke (Victoria University of Wellington, 2018)

This study presents an acoustic analysis looking at phonetic diversity in Auckland. New Zealand English is often characterized by a lack of regional variation; however, this claim has been made without considering Auckland, ...
The acquisition of variation: Arab migrants' acquisition of (ING) and Coronal Stop Deletion in Wellington

Za'rour, Rania (Victoria University of Wellington, 2018)

This dissertation investigates the patterns of acquisition found among Arab migrants to Wellington for two stable variables: coronal stop deletion (CSD) and (ING). CSD is the alternation between retained and deleted final ...
Address terms in New Zealand English: Tracking changes to the social indexicality of gendered terms of address

Giles-Mitson, Amy (Victoria University of Wellington, 2016)

Recent research has suggested that some conventionally masculine address terms are becoming more gender neutral in English speaking countries. This study examines the four most prominent gendered address forms in New Zealand ...
“All the people who live in Auckland”: A study of subject and non-subject relative clauses in Auckland English

Birchfield, Alexandra (Victoria University of Wellington, 2018)

This thesis is a study of the variation in relative marker choice by speakers of Auckland English. The data used in this study was collected as part of “Breaking Babel – Rethinking Language Change in a super-diverse city” ...
Applying cognitive linguistics to second language idiom learning

Wang, Xinqing (Victoria University of Wellington, 2020)

Idioms are known to cause great difficulty for second language (L2) learners, who may understand the literal meanings of the constituent words of idioms like (be) waiting in the wings, but often fail to interpret the ...
Argument-based validation of a high-stakes Listening test in Vietnam

Tran, Diep (Victoria University of Wellington, 2020)

More than a decade ago, the Vietnamese Government announced an educational reform to enhance the quality of English language education in the country. An important aspect of this reform is the introduction of the localized ...
Aspects of New Zealand English Intonation and Its Meanings: an Experimental Investigation of Forms and Contrasts

Vermillion, Patricia (Victoria University of Wellington, 2006)

The first aim of this thesis was to examine the form of New Zealand English intonation. The results of the first series of experiments illustrated several distinctive features of NZE intonation and the preferential tonal ...
Assessing English as an International Language for Government Officials

Meyer, Douglas (Victoria University of Wellington, 2017)

The function of English as an international language (hereafter called EIL) is firmly entrenched in many aspects of modern life, such as academia, aviation, business, education, international relations, science, and tourism. ...
Attitudes of Teacher Educators in Aotearoa New Zealand towards Bilingualism and Language Diversity

Smith, Hilary Anne (Victoria University of Wellington, 2004)

This thesis examines the attitudes of teacher educators in Aotearoa New Zealand towards bilingualism and language diversity. The research used a theoretical framework developed from the social psychology of language to ...
Attitudes to Foreign Language Learning in New Zealand Schools

Shearn, Sandra (Victoria University of Wellington, 2003)

This thesis examines attitudes towards the learning of languages other than English and Maori among New Zealand school students in years 8 and 9, parents of year 9 students, and a wide range of teachers. The research ...
The beliefs and practices of Indonesian high-school EFL teachers regarding the teaching and learning of culture and interculturality

Munandar, Muhammad Iwan (Victoria University of Wellington, 2019)

This study examined the pedagogic beliefs and practices of Indonesian teachers of English as a foreign language (EFL) regarding the teaching and learning of culture and interculturality in the local high-school English ...
A Collocation Inventory for Beginners

Shin, Dongkwang (Victoria University of Wellington, 2006)

This study has two goals - (1) to see what criteria are needed to define collocations and (2) to make a list of the high frequency collocations of spoken English that would be useful for guiding teaching, learning and ...
The communicative competence of Samoan seasonal workers under the Recognised Seasonal Employer (RSE) scheme

Salanoa, Honiara (Victoria University of WellingtonVictoria University of Wellington, 2020)

The Recognised Seasonal Employer (RSE) scheme is New Zealand’s first contract labour migration programme aimed at enhancing development in the Pacific and assisting employers in New Zealand (Gibson & McKenzie, 2010). The ...
Comparative alternation in y-adjectives

Chua, Deborah Fengyi (Victoria University of Wellington, 2016)

There are two main ways of expressing the comparative in English adjectives. One is to precede the adjectival base with more and the other is to suffix -er to the base. For the group of adjectives ending in an orthographic ...
A Comparative Genre Analysis of Boutique Hotel Webpages in Thailand and New Zealand

Leelertphan, Pakjira (Victoria University of Wellington, 2017)

This study analyses the characteristics of boutique hotel websites in Thailand and New Zealand as a genre. The study has four main objectives: 1) to identify moves and steps of English boutique hotel websites in Thailand ...
Computer-mediated and face-to-face peer feedback in second language writing

Pham, Ha Thi Phuong (Victoria University of Wellington, 2019)

With the ongoing development and application of technology in the writing classroom, peer feedback through computer-mediated communication (CMC) has been increasingly practiced and researched in the past couple of decades. ...
A Corpus-Based Analysis of Simultaneous Speech in English Conversation

He, Anping (Victoria University of Wellington, 1996)

This is a study of the distribution of 2011 instances of simultaneous speech in a 91,802-word subcorpus from the London-Lund corpus of Spoken English. Five categories of simultaneous speech (successful and unsuccessful ...
A Corpus-Based Investigation of Idiomatic Multiword Units

Grant, Lynn E (Victoria University of Wellington, 2003)

Idioms - a type of multiword unit (MWU) - are defined as being non-compositional and in general cannot be understood by adding together the meanings of the individual words that comprise the MWU. Because of this, they ...
Creating and Validating an Advanced Practical Word List

Wang, Chen (Victoria University of Wellington, 2012)

This study aims to create and validate a list of highly practical words used in the daily lives of people living in an English-speaking environment. These words are known to most native speakers of English, but are unknown ...