2023 events

LALS PhD student seminar

  • 1 December, 2023 from 4.10 pm - 5.00 pm
  • Presenters: LALS PhD students
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A sociohistorical approach to language contact and change: The case of William Caxton as a translator and multilingual businessman

  • 27 October, 2023 from 4.10 pm - 5.00 pm
  • Presenter: Prof. Mitsumi Uchida, School of Sociology, Kwansei Gakuin University
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Online Verbal Irony: Irony the Internet Loves

  • 20 October, 2023 from 4.10 pm - 5.00 pm
  • Presenter: Megan Dykes, Postgraduate Student, Linguistics and Applied Language Studies, Victoria University of Wellington
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Where is home? War-displaced Ukrainians in New Zealand

Bachelor students' perspectives, experiences and (written) practices in an English-medium education context in Austria

  • 22 September, 2023 from 4.10 pm - 5.00 pm
  • Presenter: Mag. Verena Grau BA, PhD Student, Department of English and American Study, University of Vienna
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The gastroliths of Sapelo: Essays on banal cruelty

  • 15 September, 2023 from 4.10 pm - 5.00 pm
  • Presenter: Dr. Robby Nadler
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Fostering learner autonomy through self-regulated learning skills in an EFL Malagasy context

  • 8 September, 2023 from 4.10 pm - 5.00 pm
  • Presenter: Dr. Dominique Vola Ambinintsoa
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Analysing semantic transparency of Chengyu

  • 18 August, 2023 from 4.10 pm - 5.00 pm
  • Presenters: Dr. Stephen Skalicky and Lin Ruo, PhD student
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Motivation and negotiation in L2 writing

ELI Teacher Snapshots

L1 and L2 processing of plausible and implausible English passives

  • 28 July, 2023 from 4.10 pm - 5.00 pm
  • Presenters: Dr. Stephen Skalicky, Senior Lecturer and Dr. Victoria Chen, Senior Lecturer (Associate Professor) in Linguistics, School of Linguistics and Applied Language Studies, Victoria University of Wellington
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Revisiting the Relationship Between Receptive Vocabulary Knowledge and Receptive Language Proficiency – a Multi-Group SEM Approach

  • 26 May, 2023 from 4.10 pm - 5.00 pm
  • Presenter: Hung Tan Ha, PhD Student, LALS, Victoria University of Wellington
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Triple LALS PhD celebration – Hang Nguyen, Erandi Kithulgoda, Tran Thi Phuong Thao

  • 19 May, 2023 from 4.10 pm - 5.00 pm
  • Presenters: Dr Hang Nguyen, Dr Erandi Kithulgoda, and Dr, Teacher Tran Thi Phuong Thao
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Understanding Discourse Analysis

  • 28 April, 2023 from 4.10 pm - 5.00 pm
  • Presenter: Dr Bernadette Vine, Senior Researcher and Corpus Manager, Language in the Workplace Project, Victoria University of Wellington
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LALS staff seminar 2023

Linguistic and communicative demands in the professional field. What Swedish does the foreign physician need?

  • 24 March, 2023 from 4.10 pm - 5.00 pm
  • Presenter: Dr Stina Haallsten, Visiting Scolar, Faculty of Education, Victoria University of Wellington and Södertörn University
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Teacher Strategies in Implementing English Medium Instruction

Pronouns: Linguistic Structure and Symbolic Power

  • 13 March, 2023 from 4.10 pm - 5.00 pm
  • Presenter: Prof. Dr. Peter Siemund, Institute of English and American Studies, Universität Hamburg
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L3 English in the German secondary school context: Longitudinal development of bilingual heritage speakers’ multilingual repertoire

  • 13 March, 2023 from 12.00 pm - 1.00 pm
  • Presenter: Prof. Dr. Peter Siemund, Institute of English and American Studies, Universität Hamburg
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LALS PhD student seminar

Contextual learning of new meanings for familiar wordforms from reading and listening to stories (PhD Celebration)

  • 3 March, 2023 from 4.10 pm - 5.00 pm
  • Presenter: Nurul Aini Mohd Jelani, PhD Candidate, School of Linguistics and Applied Language Studies, Victoria University of Wellington
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Natural Language Processing for Language Documentation: Study cases in Bribri and Cook Islands Māori

  • 10 February, 2023 from 4.10 pm - 5.00 pm
  • Presenter: Prof Rolando Coto Solano, Assistant Professor, Linguistics, Computer Science, Dartmouth College
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