2021 events

Dual-Seminar: A move approach to analysing a digital multimodal genre & The effect of mind mapping and outlining on EFL students’ writing performance and attitudes

  • Presenters: Erandi Kithulgoda & Vy Doan Lan, School of Linguistics and Applied Language Studies, Victoria University of Wellington
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Taking textbooks to task: Case studies from diverse language classrooms

  • Presenters: Phuong Cao, Hao Dao, Jonathan Newton, Yoshie Nishikawa, Priska Pramastiwi & Jing Yiyuan (in alphabetical order), TBLT Special Interest Group, School of Linguistics and Applied Language Studies, Victoria University of Wellington
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Problems with word meaning

  • Presenter: Laurie Bauer, School of Linguistics and Applied Language Studies, Victoria University of Wellington
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2 Minute Talks: LALS Research Students

  • Presenters: Research students, School of Linguistics and Applied Language Studies, Victoria University of Wellington
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The fish, it’s gone! The koi, I mean. Dislocations, movements, and afterthoughts: how are they expressed in Afrikaans? How do they differ from Dutch and German?

  • Presenter: Luané Lennox, School of Linguistics and Applied Language Studies, Victoria University of Wellington
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Collecting behavioural data online: Challenges, triumphs, and suggestions (or) The good, the bad, and the ugly

  • Presenters: Xin Chen, Nurul Aini Mohd Jelani, Stephen Skalicky, & Paul Warren, School of Linguistics and Applied Language Studies, Victoria University of Wellington
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Vocabulary related episodes (VREs) in EFL listening lessons: How, why, when and who benefits?

  • Presenters: Judy Wei, School of Linguistics and Applied Language Studies, Victoria University of Wellington
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Designing Tests for Academic Purposes

  1. What are the pros and cons of wordlist-based development of academic collocation tests?
    • Presenter: Hang Nguyen, School of Linguistics and Applied Language Studies, Victoria University of Wellington
  2. How to develop an integrated-writing test?
    • Presenter: Aynur Ismayilli-Karakoç, School of Linguistics and Applied Language Studies, Victoria University of Wellington

2021 LALS Public Lectures, sponsored by the Ian Gordon Endowment Fund

A study of Chinese learners’ ability to comprehend irony

2021 LALS Public Lectures by Professor Rod Ellis (Curtin University)

Options in the design of a task-based language teaching curriculum: An educational perspective

What are English Language Institute teachers working on in their language programmes?

Book Series Launch: Pedagogical Content Knowledge for English Language Teachers

Children as Language Inquirers: Developing Language Awareness through Dual Language Picturebooks

Processing of formulaic language in a first and second language

  1. Does the processing advantage afforded by cross-language congruency extend to units beyond the word level, such as binomials (knife and fork)?
    • Presenter: Lingli Du, School of Linguistics and Applied Language Studies, Victoria University of Wellington
  2. How does modification affect the processing of formulaic language?
    • Presenter: Shang Jiang, School of Linguistics and Applied Language Studies, Victoria University of Wellington

New Zealand Sign Language Evening!

PhD Celebration: Elvie Majuddin & Diep Tran

  1. What are the effects of repeated viewing and typographically enhanced captions on MWE acquisition and video comprehension?
    • Presenter: Elvenna Majuddin, School of Linguistics and Applied Language Studies, Victoria University of Wellington
  2. What are the validity concerns for localized tests of English proficiency? What factors affect test-takers’ performance on a listening test?
    • Presenter: Diep Tran, School of Linguistics and Applied Language Studies, Victoria University of Wellington

Folk perceptions of language and creativity: Figurative language and play

Humour and belonging: Insights from two LALS summer scholars

  1. How does humour in YouTube comments signal national belonging?
    • Presenter: Sofia Morrell, Victoria University of Wellington
  2. How to develop an integrated-writing test?
    • Presenter: Bryer Oden, Victoria University of Wellington

The narcissism of small differences: Sociolinguistic points of comparison in Auckland

LALS staff seminar

  • Presenters: Averil Coxhead, Anna Siyanova, Irina Elgort, Meredeth Marra, Stephen Skalicky, Jean Parkinson, Rachel Ruegg, Sasha Calhoun, Paul Warren, Rachel McKee, and Peter Gu, Victoria University of Wellington
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The use of digital technologies in an EMI context of Vietnamese higher education

  • Presenter: Vo Doan Tho, PhD candidate, School of Education, Victoria University of Wellington
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