AUT - Clare Conway

Clare Conway

Senior lecturer; Programme Coordinator

Phone: 64 9 921 9999 ext 6000

Email: clare.conway@aut.ac.nz

Qualifications:

• MA (Hons) Languages and Literature, Victoria
• Dip Teaching, Auckland
• Dip Second Language Teaching, Massey
• CATE, AUT.

Biography:

Clare comes to her current positions after leading programmes at AUT University in Language Teacher Education at Graduate Diploma and Certificate levels.  She has had experience teaching languages in France, Finland and New Zealand.

At AUT her teaching experience includes papers on the Masters and Graduate Diploma and undergraduate papers on the BA English and New Media Studies, as well as Academic Literacies, English for Business Studies and general English language at all levels.

Her contributions to the community include writing and editing for Password Magazine, a magazine for new speakers of English, and a position as Auckland Team leader for University of Cambridge ESOL Examinations.

Clare is Programme Coordinator, Master of Professional Language Studies in Language Teaching and Co-Programme Coordinator, Master of Arts Applied Language Studies.

 

Research Summary:

Clare's research interests are in the area of language teacher education and include teachers perceptions of learning and transfer of learning. 

Current Research Projects:

Clare is currently involved in a collaborative self study/action research project with Heather Denny on the teaching of reflective practice in the one year Professional Masters.

Recent research projects

• Clare Conway, Heather Richards, and  Annelies Roskvist have recently completed a Ministry of Education funded project on an Evaluation of the Teacher and Professional Development Languages (TPDL) in years 7-10 and the impact on language learning opportunities and outcomes for students, led by Dr Sharon Harvey.  Findings have been presented at the NZALT International Conference, Wellington 2008;  CLESOL Conference, Auckland 2008; ALANZ AALA Conference, Auckland 2009.
  
• Clare Conway and Heather Richards completed a project on transfer of learning from language teacher education courses into teaching practice. English language teachers from China on a professional development course in New Zealand completed on-course and end-of-course reflections on their learning.  These reflections were compared with their pre-course needs analysis and the post-course reflections the teachers made once they were back in China to find common themes and perceptions of transfer of learning. Findings have been published in Selected Papers from the Fourth International Conference on Language Teacher Education, Minnesota 2005.

Publications:

• Harvey, S., Conway, C., Richards, H., & Roskvist, A. (2009). Evaluation of Teacher Professional Development Languages, Years 7-10 and the impact on language learning opportunities and outcomes for students. [Report] Ministry of Education: Wellington.
• Conway, C. (2009). [Review of Levy, M., & Stockwell, G. (2006). CALL dimensions: Options and issues in computer-assisted language learning. Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum].  TESOLANZ Journal 17.
• Conway, C. (2009). [Review of Hanson-Smith, E. & Rilling, S. (Eds). (2006).  Learning languages through technology. Alexandria, VA, USA: TESOL Inc]. TESOLANZ Newsletter. 18.
• Conway, C & Richards, H. (2007) Meeting the needs of visiting in-service EFL teachers from China. The TESOLANZ Journal, 15, 71-87.
• Conway & Richards, H. (2007). Was it really worth it? Chinese EFL teachers perceptions of the effects of an offshore development course on their teaching. In Voice and Vision in Language Teacher Education: Selected Papers from the Fourth International Conference on Language Teacher Education.  CARLA working paper #25.
• Conway, C. & Richards, H. (2007).  Teaching notes: The Best of Password 7. Puriri Press: Auckland, New Zealand.
• Conway, C. (2002). Teaching Notes: Best of Password 6, Puriri Press: Auckland
• Conway, C. (Producer) & Hall, M. (Director). (2000). Variations on a Teaching Theme. [Video].

Conference presentations

• Conway, C., Richards, H., Harvey, S., & Roskvist, A. (2009). Evaluation of Teacher Professional Development Languages in Years 7-10 and the impact on language learning opportunities and outcomes for students. Intercultural Competence and Communication Seminar. AUT University: Auckland.
• Conway, C., Richards, H., Harvey, S. Roskvist, A. (December 2009). Reconciling Sfard’s metaphors in a language teacher professional development course. 1st Combined Conference: The Applied Linguistics Associations of NZ and of Australia. Auckland, NZ. (Dec 2009)
  Harvey, S., Roskvist, A., Conway, C., & Richards, H. (December 2009). Now I can talk the talk’: Experiences of language teachers as students. 2009 Australian Association for Research in Education International Education Research Conference. Canberra, Australia.
• Richards, H., Conway, C., Roskvist, A., & Harvey, S. (2008) Teachers learning languages: Building communities of language learning and teaching in schools. Eleventh National Conference on Community Languages and ESOL (CLESOL): Language and Identity: Building Communities of Learning. Auckland.
• Conway, C., Richards, H, Harvey, S. & Roskvist, A. (July, 2008). Learning Language: Motivation from three perspectives. Paper presented at NZALT Biennial International Conference. Wellington.
  Richards, H. & Conway, C. (September, 2006). Chinese EFL teachers' perception of the effects of a teacher development course in New Zealand on their teaching in China.  Joint paper presented at Origins and Connections: Linking Theory, Research and Practice, Tenth National Conference for Community Languages and ESOL, Napier.
• Conway, C. & Richards, H. (June, 2005). Chinese EFL/ESOL teachers’ perceptions of offshore professional development. Joint paper presented at Voice and Vision in Language Teacher Education: Fourth International Conference, University of Minnesota, Minneapollis, United States.
  Conway, C. and Milmine, J. (October, 2002). Observing teaching performance. Joint workshop presented at Fourth National Conference on Community Languages and ESOL, Wellington.