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Irmengard Wohlfart

Irmengard Wohlfart.

Senior Lecturer

Phone: +64 9 921 9999 ext 6125

Email: irmengard.wohlfart@aut.ac.nz

Physical Address:
Room WT 603, Level 6, AUT Tower, corner of Wakefield and Rutland streets, Auckland Central

Qualifications:

  • Master of Arts (Hons) Language Learning & Teaching, University of Auckland
  • Professional Master of Arts (Hons) Translation Studies, University of Auckland
  • Bachelor of Arts English & German Literature & Linguistics, Massey University
  • Diploma English Language Teaching (ESOL), Unitec, Auckland

Teaching Areas:

ESOL; Academic Writing; Translation Studies

Research areas:

  • Consequences of migration over time and across generations
  • Cultural translation of New Zealand literature.

Publications:

  • Wohlfart, I. (2009). Investigating a double translation of culture: The English-Maori classic postcolonial text Potiki and its German translation. Target: International Journal of Translation Studies. 21(2):245–268.  doi: 10.1075/target.21.2.03woh
  • Wohlfart, I.  (2009) Exploring cultural translation through mediated discourse analysis. 2nd New Zealand Discourse Conference, Auckland, New Zealand. November 18-20.
  • Wohlfart, I. (2009)  Belonging and identities: Elderly immigrants in New Zealand. 11th International Pragmatics Conference, Melbourne, Australia. July 12-17. Abstracts (p190): http://ipra.ua.ac.be/main.aspx?c=.CONFERENCE11&n=1387
  • Wohlfart, I. (2007) Translation studies perspectives on Patricia Graces Potiki: The original work and the German translation.  Dissertation submitted to the University of Auckland in partial fulfillment of the degree of Professional Master of Arts in Translation Studies, 2007.
  • Wohlfart, I. & S. Guy (2004) Intercultural pre-employment selection interviews: ESL speakers preparation and performance. CLESOL Conference, Christchurch. September 24-27.
  • Wohlfart, I. (1997) ESOL students: Their problems with academic writing and their coping strategies. Thesis submitted to the University of Auckland in partial fulfillment of the degree of Master of Arts in Language Teaching & Learning.

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