Research

• Gary Barkhuizen BA(Hons) (Rhodes), MA (Essex), EdM, EdD (Columbia)
  Language teacher education, sociolinguistics: learner language, studies that use narrative inquiry and other interpretative methodologies.
• Michael Barlow BSc(Hons), MSc (Liverpool), PhD (Stanford University)
  Corpus linguistics, corpora and language learning, contrastive analysis, idiolectal variation.
• Helen Basturkmen PhD
  Spoken discourse / pragmatics, error correction, ESP, teacher cognition.
• Rob Batstone MA (Oxon), PhD (London)
  Sociocognitive perspectives on identity, pedagogical grammar, teacher beliefs, learner interpretations of classroom activity, sociocognitive perspectives on language use and language learning.
• Christine Biebricher PhD
  Literacy and literacy development in second / foreign languages, approaches to teaching literature in classrooms, processes of reading comprehension, reading socialisation.
• Jason Brown PhD (British Columbia)
  Phonology, phonotactics, child acquisition, learnability and gradient vs. categorical phonological patterns, phonetics and laboratory phonology, experimental linguistics, the productivity of phonology and morphology, endangered language.
• Helen Charters BA (Auckland), MA (ANU), PhD (Auckland)
  Processing of agreement, Mandarin syntax, discourse and pragmatics, second language acquisition, lexical functional grammar, Samoan syntax.
• Ross Clark PhD
  Historical linguistics, language contact, Pacific languages.
• Rod Ellis MA (Leeds), MEd (Brist), PhD (London)
  Second language acquisition, individual learner differences, form-focussed instruction, teacher education, course design and methodology of language teaching.
• Dr Rosemary Erlam MA(Hons), PhD (Auckland)
  Form-focused instruction, teacher education, instructed second / foreign language learning in the NZ school system.
• Yan Huang BA, MA, (Nanking) PhD (Cantab), DPhil (Oxon)
  Pragmatics, anaphora, pragmatics-semantics interface, pragmatics-syntax interface, typology, philosophy of language.
• Shaofeng Li PhD (MSU)
  Second language interaction, corrective feedback, individual differences, quantitative research methods, language testing, task-based language learning and teaching.
• Frank Lichtenberk PhD (Hawai‘i)
  Functional-typological syntax, grammaticalisation, Oceanic linguistics (descriptive, historical, comparative).
• Neil Matheson MAT(ESOL) (School for International Training)
  Online learning technologies, contributing-student pedagogy, feedback, writing corpora.
• Miriam Meyerhoff PhD (Penn)
  Language variation and change, gender and language, pidgins and creoles, language / dialect contact, networks and communities of practice, perceptions and language attitudes.
• Keith Montgomery MA, PhD (Auckland), Trinity Cert (TESOL)
  Acquisition of second-language phonology, phonetics and phonology teaching Middle English language, editing Middle English literature.
• John Read MA(Hons) (Victoria), PhD (New Mexico)
  Second language vocabulary assessment, testing English for academic and professional purposes.
• Lizzy Roe MSc (Edinburgh), RSA Dip. TEFLA, RSA Cert. TEFLA, Cert French Language and Civilisation (Bourgogne)
  Teaching and learning methodology, language skills proficiency, language assessment, teacher development.
• Jan Steiner BA, MA (Auckland), CELTA (Unitec), MProfStud (Auckland)
  Student equity issues, in particular the welfare and progress of the Pasifika students taking ESOL courses.
• Tan Bee Tin PhD (Southampton)
  Materials development, studies of academic discourse, the ‘affective’ and ‘aesthetic’ aspect of language teaching and language teacher education, opportunities offered by creative writing activities in EFL/ESL classrooms.
• John Tomlins MEd(Dist) (Manchester)
  Methodological implications of teacher and learner classroom interaction, cross-cultural communication, English for Academic Purposes, English for Specific Purposes, spoken discourse, materials design.
• Rosemary Wette Dip SLT (Massey), Dip Tchg, MA(Hons), PhD
  Language teacher cognition, the second language curriculum, teaching academic writing, English for Academic Purposes, English for Medical Purposes.
• Martin White MEd (Temple), PG Dip (Sheffield), PGCE (Nottingham)
  Academic writing, academic literacy, second language acquisition, genre analysis and academic texts.
• Fay Wouk MA (UMich), PhD (UCLA)
  Voice, discourse and grammar, grammar and interaction, cross-cultural pragmatics, languages of Indonesia.
   

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