Identity construction and language investment by three tertiary level Chinese study abroad learners in New Zealand

In my experience there has been a decline in recent years of students’ willingly engaging with educational experiences unless there is some element of ensuing gain, for example marks towards a final grade. Small group law teaching in a tutorial setting has long been accepted as being the best opportunity afforded to students where they can interact with their peers under the guidance of a tutor in an effort to learn problem-solving techniques. However tutorial attendance figures show that the students who are in the most need of the experience are less and less willing to participate in these activities. The traditional methods of tertiary teaching are not encouraging this group of students to wholly engage with the learning process. This paper describes how online activities such as quizzes were introduced to increase student engagement and lead them towards achieving success in analysis and critical thinking.

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Social contact and speech act strategies in a Chinese study abroad context

Study Abroad Research in Second Language Acquisition and International Education ◽

10.1075/sar.20002.tan ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 6 (1) ◽

Author(s):

Xiaofei Tang ◽

Naoko Taguchi ◽

Shuai Li

Keyword(s):

Study Abroad ◽

Speech Acts ◽

Speech Act ◽

Social Contact ◽

Self Report ◽

Spoken Discourse ◽

Contact Group ◽

Chinese Study ◽

Compliment Responses ◽

Request Strategies

Abstract This study examined the relationship between reported amounts of social contact and speech act strategies among 70 learners of Chinese enrolled in a study abroad program in Beijing. The participants completed a computer-delivered spoken discourse completion task (spoken DCT) eliciting three speech acts: requests, refusals, and compliment responses. Speech act strategies were compared between two groups of learners who reported different amounts of social contact (high and low social contact) as assessed via a self-report survey. Results showed that both high and low social contact groups favored using similar strategies to achieve the three speech acts. However, the high social contact group produced speech acts in a more sophisticated way: with a wider variety of request strategies, multiple refusal strategies used in combination and more deflecting strategies in compliment responses, compared with the low social contact group. The findings suggest that social contact helped learners expand their pragmalinguistic repertoire and employ more varied speech act strategies.

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Long-term outcomes of hepatic resection for colorectal liver metastases at a New Zealand tertiary level public hospital

ANZ Journal of Surgery ◽

10.1111/ans.13468 ◽

2016 ◽

Vol 86 (4) ◽

pp. 285-288 ◽

Cited By ~ 3

Author(s):

Elizabeth W. Foo ◽

Tom Moore ◽

Dean Harris ◽

Ma Yi ◽

Saxon Connor

Keyword(s):

New Zealand ◽

Liver Metastases ◽

Hepatic Resection ◽

Colorectal Liver Metastases ◽

Public Hospital ◽

Tertiary Level ◽

Long Term Outcomes

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Dual-heritage households: Food, culture, and re-membering in Hamilton, New Zealand

International Review of Social Research ◽

10.1515/irsr-2016-0002 ◽

2016 ◽

Vol 6 (1) ◽

pp. 4-14 ◽

Cited By ~ 2

Author(s):

Rebekah Graham ◽

Darrin Hodgetts ◽

Ottilie Stolte

Keyword(s):

New Zealand ◽

Identity Construction ◽

Social Relationships ◽

Comparative Research ◽

Food Culture ◽

Photo Elicitation ◽

Familial Relationships ◽

Food Practices ◽

Shared Spaces ◽

Ways Of Being

AbstractFood is deeply connected to processes of re-membering, identity construction, the texturing of shared spaces, and social relationships. This case-comparative research focusses on how everyday food-related practices (sourcing, preparing, serving and eating) reproduce aspects of culture and communal ways of being. We will consider the food practices of three dual-heritage households who took part in a series of biographical, ‘go-along’, ‘eat-along’ and photo-elicitation interviews. Particular attention is paid to the ways in which food is intimately interwoven with familial relationships, the reproduction of hybrid ways of being, and connecting the present, past, and future.

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