Trading Places, Creating Spaces: Chris Candlin's contribution to aligning research and practice

2018 ◽  
Vol 52 (4) ◽  
pp. 476-489
Author(s):  
Cynthia White ◽  
Janet Holmes ◽  
Vijay Bhatia
Keyword(s):  
Hong Kong ◽  
New Zealand ◽  
Teaching And Learning ◽  
Applied Linguistics ◽  
Professional Communication ◽  
Asia Pacific ◽  
Research And Practice ◽  
Language For Specific Purposes ◽  
To Come ◽  
And Training

In referencing the title of Chris Candlin's (2008) plenary, this paper focuses on the continuing concern to align research and practice in applied linguistics, and more particularly in language for specific purposes (LSP) and professional communication. We examine how Candlin identified practices for trading places between research and practice and for creating synergies between them – and in so doing opened up new spaces for enquiry and understanding in the field. We identify and critically examine four approaches that Candlin developed to promote the alignment of research and practice: through particular research tools and methodologies, through the investigation of professional settings and inter-domain constructs (such as quality, trust and risk), through a concern with both rigour and relevance in relation to research and training, and through a focus on ‘critical moments of interaction’ in ‘crucial sites of engagement’ (Candlin 2008). To this end, we draw on the diverse domains and trajectories of enquiry outlined in the opening plenary symposium at the 4th Asia-Pacific Language for Specific Purposes & Professional Communication Association Conference from five standpoints: in recent impact case studies of professional communication in the Hong Kong context (Cheng 2017), in a ‘multi-perspectival’ account of Candlin's enacted philosophy of teaching and learning (Moore 2017), in examining the communicative basis of expertise (Sarangi 2017) and the concept of interdiscursivity (Jones 2017), and in the extensive fieldwork and analysis of workplace talk underlying the development of resources for new migrants in New Zealand (Holmes & Riddiford 2017). In conclusion, we pay tribute to an inspirational researcher and teacher whose influence will continue to impact applied linguistics for decades to come.

scholarly journals Editor's Introduction

2011 ◽  
Vol 31 ◽  
pp. vi-vii
Author(s):  
Charlene Polio
Keyword(s):  
Language Learning ◽  
Teaching And Learning ◽  
Language Teaching ◽  
Applied Linguistics ◽  
Collaborative Writing ◽  
Asia Pacific ◽  
Annual Review ◽  
Second Languages ◽  
Specific Skill ◽  
Second Language Pedagogy

With this volume of the Annual Review of Applied Linguistics (ARAL), I continue the tradition of my predecessors of producing a volume on the topic second language pedagogy about every five years. Although applied linguistics encompasses more than the teaching and learning of second languages, articles on these topics tend to be among the most downloaded from the ARAL web site. I decided, however, to break with the tradition of focusing mostly on specific skill areas. Because language teaching is a situated activity that cannot be separated from its contexts and learners, the first section is devoted to language learning in or for specific contexts (secondary school settings, online, the workplace, the Asia-Pacific region, and study abroad), and the second section focuses on specific learners (young learners, adult emergent readers, and hearing learners of sign language). These are followed by a section on integrated approaches and includes articles on language-literature instruction, content and language integrated learning, the application of corpus research to language teaching, and multimodal literacy. The final section includes articles on more specific skill areas including teaching non-Roman writing systems, collaborative writing, and pragmatics.

scholarly journals Tourism under the Early Phase of COVID-19 in Four APEC Economies: An Estimation with Special Focus on SARS Experiences

2020 ◽  
Vol 17 (20) ◽  
pp. 7543
Author(s):  
Bao-Linh Tran ◽  
Chi-Chung Chen ◽  
Wei-Chun Tseng ◽  
Shu-Yi Liao
Keyword(s):  
Hong Kong ◽  
New Zealand ◽  
Fixed Effects ◽  
Negative Impact ◽  
Asia Pacific ◽  
International Tourism ◽  
Special Focus ◽  
Tourism Demand ◽  
Data Set ◽  
The Impact

This study examines how experience of severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) influences the impact of coronavirus disease (COVID-19) on international tourism demand for four Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) economies, Taiwan, Hong Kong, Thailand, and New Zealand, over the 1 January–30 April 2020 period. To proceed, panel regression models are first applied with a time-lag effect to estimate the general effects of COVID-19 on daily tourist arrivals. In turn, the data set is decomposed into two nation groups and fixed effects models are employed for addressing the comparison of the pandemic-tourism relationship between economies with and without experiences of the SARS epidemic. Specifically, Taiwan and Hong Kong are grouped as economies with SARS experiences, while Thailand and New Zealand are grouped as countries without experiences of SARS. The estimation result indicates that the number of confirmed COVID-19 cases has a significant negative impact on tourism demand, in which a 1% COVID-19 case increase causes a 0.075% decline in tourist arrivals, which is a decline of approximately 110 arrivals for every additional person infected by the coronavirus. The negative impact of COVID-19 on tourist arrivals for Thailand and New Zealand is found much stronger than for Taiwan and Hong Kong. In particular, the number of tourist arrivals to Taiwan and Hong Kong decreased by 0.034% in response to a 1% increase in COVID-19 confirmed cases, while in Thailand and New Zealand, a 1% national confirmed cases increase caused a 0.103% reduction in tourism demand. Moreover, the effect of the number of domestic cases on international tourism is found lower than the effect caused by global COVID-19 mortality for the economies with SARS experiences. In contrast, tourist arrivals are majorly affected by the number of confirmed COVID-19 cases in Thailand and New Zealand. Finally, travel restriction in all cases is found to be the most influencing factor for the number of tourist arrivals. Besides contributing to the existing literature focusing on the knowledge regarding the nexus between tourism and COVID-19, the paper’s findings also highlight the importance of risk perception and the need of transmission prevention and control of the epidemic for the tourism sector.

Anxiety and Involvement

2011 ◽  
pp. 234-259 ◽  
Author(s):  
Roger Harris ◽  
Robert Davison
Keyword(s):  
Information Technology ◽  
Hong Kong ◽  
New Zealand ◽  
Social Context ◽  
Computer Anxiety ◽  
Cultural Factors ◽  
Social Contexts ◽  
Research And Practice ◽  
Behavioural Factors ◽  
Developed Nations

Information systems (IS) are implemented within a social context consisting of economic, political, cultural and behavioural factors which differ greatly between societies and countries. Failure to take account of such differences can inhibit adoption of information technology (IT) and increase the risks of failure for system implementations. Developing societies are particularly vulnerable to such risk as their social contexts exhibit considerable differences, not only from the developed nations but also among themselves. This study examined the computer anxiety and involvement with personal computers (PCs) of six groups of computer-using students from China, Hong Kong, Malaysia, New Zealand, Tanzania and Thailand. Differences in comuter anxiety were found to exist between some of the groups, which was probably attributable to demographic factors. Differences were found to exist between the PC involvement of some of the groups which could be attributed to cultural factors. Implications for research and practice are drawn.

scholarly journals Editorial

2014 ◽  
Vol 43 (2) ◽  
pp. iii-iv
Author(s):  
Martin Nakata ◽  
Elizabeth Mackinlay
Keyword(s):  
New Zealand ◽  
Teaching And Learning ◽  
Indigenous Education ◽  
Educational Practice ◽  
Concerted Effort ◽  
Research And Practice ◽  
Fundamental Part ◽  
The World ◽  
New Ideas ◽  
The Many

The quest to improve Indigenous people's access, participation and outcomes in education wherever we live in the world involves a concerted effort from all, and across all levels of education from the pre-school to the postgraduate sector. Improvements in these areas, as we have seen in past issues of The Australian Journal of Indigenous Education, are closely tied to improving other social and economic indicators in Indigenous lives, such as health, employment, governance and housing. The importance of research in the field of Indigenous education is a fundamental part of understanding the complexity of the issues, the level of constraints, as well as the many possibilities as we move forward in time. And, as practitioners of Indigenous education continue to keep looking for new ideas or examples of teaching and learning practice, AJIE continues to invite descriptions of educational practice and articulations of Indigenous experience from our readership. As educational research and practice have progressively become global, we have sought experiences beyond our Aeotorea/New Zealand and North American colleagues to countries and contexts that are less familiar to us. We are pleased to report that for our efforts in this regard, AJIE is now listed with SCOPUS, the largest abstract and citation database of peer-reviewed literature.

scholarly journals Evaluation of New Zealand’s Trade and Direct Investment Intensities with Major Trading Partners

2017 ◽  
Vol 2 (2) ◽  
pp. 45
Author(s):  
Satya Gonuguntla
Keyword(s):  
Hong Kong ◽  
New Zealand ◽  
Free Trade ◽  
Trading Partner ◽  
Asia Pacific ◽  
Economic Policies ◽  
Total Trade ◽  
Economic Relations ◽  
Trading Partners ◽  
Export Destination

New Zealand (NZ) has been implementing liberal economic policies since 1980s. Accordingly, NZ has negotiated Free Trade Agreements with several countries. NZ is also the founding member of the Asia Pacific Economic Co-operation (APEC) which aims to achieve sustainable economic growth and prosperity among the countries in the Asia-Pacific Region, through free trade, investment and rapid regional economic integration. The bilateral FTAs include the Closer Economic Relations Agreement (CER) with Australia in 1983, Singapore (2001), and China (2008), Malaysia (2010), Hong Kong, China (2011) which are also member economies of the APEC. The consequence is an increase in trade as well as investment flows from Australia, Japan, Singapore, USA, and China. Presently, Australia is the largest export destination for New Zealand accounting for about 20% of merchandise exports, and a similar percent of merchandise imports. Australia is also the largest investor in NZ accounting for 56% of FDI in New Zealand. Singapore is NZ’s 6th largest trading partner and China is the second largest trading partner. Singapore, and Hong Kong, China each account for 4.5% of NZ’s FDI stock. The aim of this paper is to investigate the changing pattern of NZ’s total trade with these countries and inward FDI stock from these countries. The methodology consists of calculating and interpreting the Trade Intensity Indices and FDI Intensity Indices to gauge the significance of these two ratios at bilateral and regional level.

scholarly journals Editorial

2011 ◽  
Vol 28 (3) ◽  
pp. 245-246
Author(s):  
GARY SPRUCE ◽  
PAMELA BURNARD
Keyword(s):  
Professional Development ◽  
New Zealand ◽  
Music Education ◽  
Everyday Life ◽  
Teaching And Learning ◽  
Research And Practice ◽  
The Past ◽  
Knowing That ◽  
Education Community

The past 20 years have seen ongoing changes to the musical landscape of everyday life and growing evidence of the power of music and its ubiquity in our lives. The music education community, both academic and professional, are becoming increasingly aware of the need to rethink and change practices of teaching and learning that are likely to be beneficial to all. Knowing that across nations and cultures music accompanies the lives of 3.5-year-olds to 85-year-olds for over 80% of the time makes it all the more important that the topics of research that are featured in this final issue for 2011 reflect an international line up of studies originating from Spain, China, New Zealand, Africa, Australia and Britain. Echoing BJME's original aims ‘to strengthen connections between research and practice’ several articles reflect the rise in prominence of practitioners who undertake research as a means of informing practice and professional development.

scholarly journals Book review "Online Communication in Language Teaching and Learning"

2009 ◽  
Vol 15 ◽  
pp. 94
Author(s):  
David Perry
Keyword(s):  
Teaching And Learning ◽  
Language Teaching ◽  
Applied Linguistics ◽  
Online Communication ◽  
Research And Practice ◽  
Language Teaching And Learning

<p>Lamy, Marie-Noëlle &amp; Hampel, Regine (2007)<br />Online Communication in Language Teaching and Learning<br />Series: Research and Practice in Applied Linguistics<br />London: Palgrave MacMillan<br />ISBN: 9780230001275 (280 pages)</p>

Connecting Discourses: Academic and Professional Worlds

2010 ◽  
Vol 43 (2) ◽  
pp. 230-232
Author(s):  
Sue Wharton ◽  
Steve Mann
Keyword(s):  
Hong Kong ◽  
New Zealand ◽  
Applied Linguistics ◽  
The Uk

Centre for Applied Linguistics, University of Warwick, UK; 15–16 May 2009The overall co-ordinators of this seminar were Steve Mann and Sue Wharton. C. K. Jung was web co-ordinator, and the supporting committee was made up of Tilly Harrison, Duncan Hunter, Stefanie Stadler, Fei Chuang and Tim Kelly. Approximately 27 people attended, from institutions in Austria, Hong Kong, New Zealand and the UK.

Asian Working Women and Agency: Their Voices

2003 ◽  
Vol 14 (1) ◽  
pp. 49-63
Author(s):  
Donella Caspersz
Keyword(s):  
South Africa ◽  
Hong Kong ◽  
New Zealand ◽  
Women Workers ◽  
Trade Union ◽  
Trade Unions ◽  
Working Women ◽  
The Philippines ◽  
Asia Pacific ◽  
Collaborative Activity

The aim of this paper is to discuss the challenges of organising women workers in Asia, and to discuss how trade unions can facilitate their more effective participation in these movements. The paper is primarily informed by research undertaken with Southern Initiative on Globalization and Trade Union Rights (SIGTUR). Formed in Perth, Western Australia in 1991 and made up of delegates from India, Sri Lanka, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Thailand, Malaysia, South Korea, the Philippines, Hong Kong, South Africa, Australia, New Zealand and Brazil, the aim of SIGTUR is to promote collaborative activity by independent trade unions in the ‘South’ or rather countries within the Asia-Pacific. The paper highlights the effects of neo-liberalism on workers and develop appropriate international responses.

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