Dr Rosemary Jane Wette

Biography

Rosemary has taught EFL, migrant resettlement ESL, EAP and ESP (Medical) courses in New Zealand, England and Germany to learners at all levels of proficiency from Beginner to Advanced. In recent years she has been involved in the development and assessment of Foundation level English courses, academic writing courses at undergraduate and postgraduate levels, and English for foreign medical graduates and undergraduates. She has  supervised a number of MA and doctoral students in the areas of L2 curriculum, EAP and EAP writing. Rosemary has published in the Journal of Second Language Writing, Language Teaching Research, Language Assessment Quarterly, System and ELT Journal. She was the Reviews Editor for NZSAL and TESOLANZ publications for nine years.

Research | Current

• Language teacher cognition
• Second language curriculum
• English for academic purposes (EAP) and EAP writing
• English for specific purposes (medical)

Current research projects:

• Academic discourse socialisation challenges and coping strategies of incoming international graduate students at the University of Auckland and University of Reading: a study using narrative frames in collaboration with Professor Clare Furneaux, University of Reading
• Embedded academic literacy instruction and support for Year 1 students in the School of Population Health 
• Common core and discipline (History) specific elements of proficient student writing in Arts

Teaching | Current

LANGTCHG 101 Introduction to Language Teaching

LANGTCHG 301 The Second Language Curriculum

LANGTCHG 715 Developing Academic Literacy

LANGTCHG 760 Second Language Course Design and Methodology

Postgraduate supervision

MA dissertations

Riza, D. (2018). Graduate students’  evaluation of a project-based learning unit for expository writing skill development.

Araminta, L. (2017). Influences on the speaking self-confidence of undergraduate engineering students in Indonesia.

O'Byrne, A. (2014). Using concept maps in L2 writing instruction

Shang, H. (2013). Motivation and learners of Chinese as a second language in New Zealand

Hoang, C.H. (2012). The evaluation and development of materials for Fire Science ESP courses in Vietnam.

Buriro, G.S. (2011). Needs assessment and evaluation of a communication skills course for engineering students in Pakistan

Khan, A. U. (2011). Communicative language teaching and teacher education in Pakistan

Kadri, S. (2010). Written corrective feedback and article use

Lessels, S. (2009). Writing development in a Foundation English programme 

Wallis, R.(2005). An investigation into learners’ perceptions of exchanging letters with their teachers

Marini, G. (2004). Questions as learning opportunities 

Completed PhD supervisions

Amani, S. (2014). Metacognitive strategy instruction and pre-task planning: Impact on L2 argumentative writing ability. Thesis won the 2014 ALANZ (Applied Linguistics Association of New Zealand) Best PhD Thesis Award.

Adnan, A. (2014) English language and the socio-cultural identity construction of Bumiputera Malays in Malaysia 

Bright, C. (2013). The development of academic writing in first year undergraduate students

Kitchen, M. (2012). Imagined lives: the Korean community and one Aotearoa/NZ secondary school

Current PhD supervisions

Harrington, Catherine. Publishing research in English: Issues and challenges facing Taiwan's scholars (main supervisor).

Thararuedee, Pariwat. Principles and practices of English teachers in university contexts in Thailand (main supervisor)

Baggali Basmenj, Hamideh. Genre learning and academic writing: Postgraduate students in a university in Iran (main supervisor)

Kakh, Samira. Understanding and using writing from sources strategies by postgraduate Iranian students (co-supervisor with Professor John Bitchener, AUT)

Liu, Yali. Writing for publication: lecturers of foreign languages (other than English) in China (co-supervisor)

Xun, Xiaoming. Construction of in-service EFL teacher researcher identity: a Chinese perspective  (co-supervisor).

Tran, Hien. Promoting students' interest in learning English as a foreign language: A case study of Vietnamese university teachers' beliefs and practices (co-supervisor)

Distinctions/Honours

Centre for Learning and Research in Higher Education (CLeaR) Fellow for Arts and recipient of a Schuler Educational Enhancement and Development (SEED) Fund grant for innovation in teaching, 2017

Responsibilities

Postgraduate Adviser, MTESOL (2016-)

Member of the CLL Academic Committee (2016-2017)

Discipline Convenor, Applied Language Studies & Linguistics, 2018

Areas of expertise

The second language curriculum; English for academic purposes; Second language writing; English for specific purposes (medical)

Committees/Professional groups/Services

Editorial Board memberships: Journal of Second Language Writing; System; Argentine Journal of Applied Linguistics

Reviews Editor, New Zealand Studies in Applied Linguistics; TESOLANZ Journal (2008-2016); TESOLANZ Newsletter (2008-2014)