AUT - Annelies Roskvist

Annelies Roskvist

Associate Head of School; Head of Department, Department of English and Applied Linguistics; Senior Lecturer

Phone: 64 9 921 9999 ext 6089

Email: annelies.roskvist@aut.ac.nz

Physical Address:
Room 1401, Level 14, AUT Tower, corner of Wakefield and Rutland Streets, Auckland Central

Qualifications:

• Master of Arts (Applied Linguistics) (First Class Honours)  
  
• Post-Graduate Diploma in Second Language Teaching
• RSA Certificate in Teaching English as a Foreign Language
• Diploma in Teaching 
  
• Bachelor of Arts

Memberships and Affiliations:

• TESOLANZ (Teachers of English for Speakers of Other Languages, New Zealand)
• AKTESOL (Auckland Teachers of English for Speakers of Other Languages)
• AUT Refugee and Migrant Research Cluster

Teaching Areas:

• Undergraduate: Sociolinguistics
• Undergraduate and Post Graduate: Language Teacher Education

Research areas:

• Refugee and Migrant Education (adult)
• Vague language usage in informal oral discourse
• Language Teacher Education
  
• Immersion/Study Abroad programmes for teachers

Research Summary:

Annelies has research interests in several areas related to Language and Language teaching She has published in the area of Adult Refugee and Migrant Education in New Zealand, teaching English conversation skills, using corpora to inform language teaching and vague language markers used in informal spoken discourse.

Her current research interests include Immersion/Study Abroad programmes for teachers of languages,  and the teaching of Intercultural competence. 

Current Research Projects:

Harvey, Sharon, Clare Conway, Heather Richards and Annelies Roskvist ‘Evaluation of Teacher Professional Development Languages (TPDL) in Years 7-10 and the Impact on Language Learning Opportunities and Outcomes for Students’.

Harvey, Sharon, Annelies Roskvist, Debbie Corder and Karen Stacey. ‘Evaluation of the Language and Culture Immersion Experiences for teachers programmes – their impact on teachers and their contribution to effective second language learning’.

Publications:

• Denny, H., Roskvist, A., & Englefield, B. Improving the teaching of casual conversation through collaborative action research - a 'Leap in the Dark' or a 'Shot in the Arm'? In Major, J., & Howard, J. (Eds) (2005), CLESOL 2004: Refereed Conference Proceedings of the 9th Community Languages and English for Speakers of Other Languages Conference. Christchurch: CLESOL 2004.
• Harvey, Sharon, Clare Conway, Heather Richards and Annelies Roskvist (2009). ‘Evaluation of Teacher Professional Development Languages (TPDL) in Years 7-10 and the Impact on Language Learning Opportunities and Outcomes for Students’. Commissioned Report to Ministry of Education. (192 pages).
  
• Harvey, Sharon., Clare Conway, Heather Richards, and Annelies Roskvist (2008). ‘Evaluation of Teacher Professional Development Languages (TPDL) in Years 7-10 and the Impact on Language Learning Opportunities and Outcomes for Students’. Milestone 3. Commissioned Report to Ministry of Education. (110 pages).
  
• Roach, K., & Roskvist, A. (2007). ESOL provision for adult immigrants and refugees in New Zealand: Policy, practice and research. Prospect: An Australian Journal of TESOL, 22(3), 44-63.
  
• Roskvist, A. (2009) ‘and stuff like that’. Informal spoken language: what should we be teaching and how can we do it? In Bhanot, R. and E. Iles (eds.) Best of Language Issues: Articles from the first 20 years of NATECLA's ESOL Journal London: LLU and London South Bank University.
• Roskvist, A. Using corpora to inform language teaching: A case for teaching learners to use vague language. In Major, J., & Howard, J. (Eds) (2005), CLESOL 2004: Refereed Conference Proceedings of the 9th Community Languages and English for Speakers of Other Languages Conference. Christchurch: CLESOL 2004.
• Strauss, P., Roach, K., Roskvist, A., Smedley, F., & Yee, V. (2007) An investigation of EAL (English as an additional language) student pathways in the School of Languages, Auckland University of Technology. Commissioned Report to Ministry of Education. (140 pages).