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Gleeson, Margaret – Australian Review of Applied Linguistics, 2023
This paper reports on a professional learning (PL) project conducted over one year at a senior secondary school in New Zealand. Subject teachers volunteered to work with one another and a facilitator to identify the linguistic demands of their subjects, adapt teaching materials, and try out teaching approaches congruent with research evidence…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Secondary School Students, Instructional Materials, Teaching Methods
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Yin, Yijun; Chik, Alice; Falloon, Garry – Australian Review of Applied Linguistics, 2023
The impact of global mobility and technology innovations on urban linguistic diversity poses a key challenge to understand how and to what extent international students are immersed in the target language. Such diversity of languages and modes of communication has pointed to a fundamental transformation in the way that international students…
Descriptors: Multilingualism, Foreign Students, Second Language Learning, Computer Mediated Communication
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Danping Wang – Australian Review of Applied Linguistics, 2023
This study explores teacher perspectives on a government policy that seeks to integrate Indigenous knowledge into mainstream foreign language education in New Zealand schools. Based on in-depth interviews, the study found that language teachers generally support this educational change because trans/languaging involving English and te reo Maori…
Descriptors: Indigenous Knowledge, Indigenous Populations, Ethnic Groups, Malayo Polynesian Languages
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Behnam Soltani; Lawrence Jun Zhang – Australian Review of Applied Linguistics, 2023
This article investigates second language socialization of three international students in a tertiary institute in New Zealand. To understand the experiences of international students, the article draws on the theoretical framework of the production of space to examine how the students experienced their new social space. The article uses multiple…
Descriptors: Foreign Students, College Students, Socialization, English (Second Language)
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Minagawa, Harumi; Nesbitt, Dallas – Australian Review of Applied Linguistics, 2022
Pennington and Richards (2016) argue that if the medium of instruction (MOI) is not the native language of the instructor, lack of proficiency in the MOI could bring about a lack of confidence. This study inquired how native Japanese as a Foreign Language (JFL) teachers at tertiary institutions in New Zealand and Australia perceive their English…
Descriptors: Native Speakers, Language Teachers, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
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Cunningham, Una; King, Jeanette – Australian Review of Applied Linguistics, 2019
Parents and prospective parents who speak a language other than English in New Zealand are in something of an information desert when it comes to how and why they might go about raising their children bilingually. While the official languages, Te Reo Maori and New Zealand Sign Language, have special status among the languages of New Zealand, other…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Child Rearing, Parent Child Relationship
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Bitchener, John – Australian Review of Applied Linguistics, 2016
The focus of this article is on the written feedback that supervisors say they often give their second language (L2) doctoral students. Little is known about the focus of this feedback and about what supervisors consider as priorities in the early draft writing of dissertation chapters. Given the potentially different priorities and foci of…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Feedback (Response), Written Language, Applied Linguistics
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Zhang, Lawrence Jun – Australian Review of Applied Linguistics, 2016
The teaching of writing in English as a second/foreign language (ESL/EFL) has been a challenging task for many teachers due to its multifaceted nature. This paper is a reflection on ESL/EFL writing teaching in three countries, namely China, Singapore, and New Zealand, with particular reference to professionalizing ESL/ EFL writing and ESL/EFL…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Writing Instruction