Postgraduate Students

Linguistics Ph.D. Candidates

 

Zainab Al-zaghir

B.ED in English (Babylon University, Iraq), MA in Applied Linguistics (Universiti Putra Malaysia, Malaysia)

PhD topic: The Accessibility Hierarchy vs. the Absolutive Hypothesis: A Corpus Analysis of Arabic and English Relative Clauses.

Research Interests: Discourse analysis, second language acquisition, typological universals

Zainab Al-zaghir can be contacted at alzza810@student.otago.ac.nz

 

Sally Henderson

B.A. Hons(Otago), R.S.A. CELTA, M.A. TESL (Illinois)

Ph.D. topic: "Source use and authorship in second language academic writing"

Research Interests: TESOL, English for academic purposes, critical linguistics

Sally Henderson can be contacted at hensa183@student.otago.ac.nz

 

Jane Hislop

B.A. (Massey), M.A. (Surrey)

Ph.D. topic: Students' beliefs about cooperative/collaborative group learning in an English for Academic Purposes (EAP) course

Research interests: learner independence, student attitudes/beliefs, cooperative and collaborative learning

Jane Hislop can be contacted at hisja270@student.otago.ac.nz

 

Grant Howie

B.A. Hons., DipLang (Otago)

Ph.D. topic: Pronunciation and identity of the L2 English of Afrikaans-speakers in New Zealand.

Research interests: Second language acquisition, TESOL, identity and language, language change, the use of modern technology in language learning

Grant Howie can be contacted at howgr345@student.otago.ac.nz

 

Ian Moodie

B.A. in Social Science (The King's University College, Canada), M.A. in Applied Linguistics (University of New England, Australia)

Ph.D. topic: A narrative inquiry into language teacher cognition in Korea

Research interests: language teacher cognition, language teacher education, TESOL

Ian can be contacted at ianmoodie@gmail.com

 

Jo Oranje

B.A. in Psychology (Otago), GDipSLT (Otago), M.A. in Linguistics (Otago).

Ph.D. topic: Teaching culture as part of teaching language

Research interests: teaching culture, involving learners' cultures, intercultural communicative language teaching

Jo can be contacted at harjo159@student.otago.ac.nz

 

Fa'afo Pat

B.A. Hons in Linguistics (University of Papua New Guinea, PNG), M.A. in Linguistics (University of York, UK)

Ph.D. topic: Grammar of Hula-Aroma

Research interests: Morphology and Syntax of Austronesian and Papuan Languages, Historical Linguistics; Psycholinguistics: Brain and Language; Language Planning & Development Issues in Developing Countries

Fa’afofonga can be contacted at: patfa117@otago.ac.nz

 

Michael Pryde

B.A., Pg. Dip. (Otago), CELTS/RSA, M.A. TESOL (Temple Univ.)

Ph.D. topic: Cross-cultural communication dilemmas for Japanese high school students on an exchange year in New Zealand

Research interests: inter-cultural communication, Japanese language and culture

Michael Pryde can be contacted at prymi775@student.otago.ac.nz

 

Bunjong (Gaye) Wall

B.Ed. in English (Srinakarinwirot University, Thailand), Dip TESL and M.A. in Applied Linguistics (Victoria University of Wellington, NZ)

Ph.D. Topic: The Effects of Textual Coherence Analysis and Metacognitive Strategy Training on Discourse Synthesis tasks.

Research interests: Autonomous Learning; Academic Writing; Internationalisation; Academic & Intellectual Mobility (Brain Drain & Brain Gain Phenomenon)

Bunjong (Gaye) Wall can be contacted at: gayewall@yahoo.co.nz

 

Juan (Jenny) Zhang

B.A. in English Language, M.A. in Teaching of English Language, (Shenyang Normal University, China)

Ph.D. Topic: Matched/mismatched teaching and learning styles and English achievement of Chinese EFL students

Research interests: TESOL, language styles and learning strategies, listening, individual differences of language learners

Juan (Jenny) Zhang can be contacted at zhaju404@student.otago.ac.nz

 

 

Linguistics M.A. Candidates

 

Joanna Frampton

B.A. (Hons) in Classics (Victoria University of Wellington), Dip Arts in Linguistics (Victoria University of Wellington)

M.A. Topic: Grammar of Maisin

Research interests: Morphology and syntax of Austronesian languages, historical linguistics, New Zealand English.

Joanna can be contacted at j.frampton@sil.org.pg

 

Anna Noble

M.A. Topic:

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Anna can be contacted at stuan060@student.otago.ac.nz

 

 

Joanna Selamat

M.A. Topic:

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Joanna can be contacted at seljo246@student.otago.ac.nz