Mr Neil James Matheson

BA (Auckland), MAT (ESOL) (School for International Training, Vermont)

Senior Tutor

In: Applied Language Studies and Linguistics » Cultures, Languages and Linguistics » Faculty of Arts

Biography

Senior Tutor
Graduate Adviser Applied Linguistics & Language Teaching

Research | Current

Contributing-student pedagogy
Corpus development: AWA: Academic Writing at Auckland awa.auckland.ac.nz
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Peer review

Teaching | Current

ENGWRIT 101 English Writing for Academic Purposes

ACADENG 104 Academic English for Business

Selected publications and creative works (Research Outputs)

Matheson, N. (2018). Unbuilding the walls: Helping Pasifika students transition into diverse academic writing contexts. Paper presented at Sociolinguistics Symposium 22, Auckland, New Zealand. 27 June - 30 June 2018. Related URL.
Matheson, N. (2018). Helping students learn core features of academic writing in diverse written genres. Paper presented at Asian Conference on Language Learning (ACLL2018): "Surviving and Thriving: Education in Times of Change", Kobe, Japan. 27 April - 29 April 2018. Related URL.
Nesi, H., Matheson, N., & Basturkmen, H. (2017). University literature essays in the UK, New Zealand and the USA: Implications for EAP. New Zealand Studies in Applied Linguistics, 23 (2), 25-38.
Other University of Auckland co-authors: Helen Basturkmen
Matheson, N., & Basturkmen, H. (2017). Teaching academic writing using a text bank of student disciplinary writing. Paper presented at The 4th Asia-Pacific Language for Specific Purposes and Professional Communication Conference (Pre-Conference Workshops), Victoria University of Wellington, new Zealand. 26 April - 28 April 2017. Related URL.
Other University of Auckland co-authors: Helen Basturkmen
Nesi, H., Basturkmen, H. L., & Matheson, N. (2015). A comparison of student assignments in UK, USA and New Zealand: Implications for teachers of second language academic writing. Paper presented at Symposium of Second Language Writing 2015, Auckland University of Technology, Auckland, New Zealand. 19 November - 21 November 2015.
Other University of Auckland co-authors: Helen Basturkmen
Matheson, N. J., & Basturkmen, H. (2015). Developing a research-informed academic writing curriculum using a text bank of student writing. In P. Shrestha (Ed.) Current Developments in English for Academic and Specific Purposes: Local innovations and global perspectives (pp. 139-156). Reading: Garnet.
Other University of Auckland co-authors: Helen Basturkmen
Matheson, N. J. (2014). Increasing Pasifika student success in academic writing courses. Paper presented at 2nd Foundation & Bridging Educators New Zealand Conference, Bay of Plenty Polytech, Tauranga, New Zealand. 3 December - 4 December 2014. Related URL.
Matheson, N. J. (2014). Using student writing and insider perspectives to develop an academic writing course. Paper presented at Applied Linguistics Association New Zealand Symposium, AUT University, Auckland.. 29 November - 29 November 2014. Related URL.