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.

 

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

 

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

 

Jo Oranje

B.A. in Psychology (Otago), G.Dip.SLT (Otago)

M.A. Topic: Culture in the ESL classroom

Research interests: Second language teaching and learning, particularly: Intercultural teaching and learning; the role of second language learners' home cultures in their acquisition of a new languaculture; teacher knowledge about mainstreamed ESL learners and the associated impacts on learning.

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

 

Rebecca Yates

B.A. (Hons) in Linguistics (Otago), Dip.Lang (Spanish)

M.A. Topic: The effect of gender and familiarity of the use of like in New Zealand English

Research interests: Sociolinguistics, language and gender, New Zealand English, discourse markers.

Rebecca Yates can be contacted at yatre590@student.otago.ac.nz