Research expertise in language and culture

There is a great depth and range of research expertise in the School of Language and Culture at AUT University.

Associate Professor Sharon Harvey

Head of School of Language and Culture; Deputy Dean (Research), Faculty of Culture and Society

Languages Education, Language Teacher Development, Curriculum Studies, Refugee and Migrant Studies, Intercultural Competency, Language Policy and Planning, Discourse Analysis, Research and Science Policy, Policy Analysis, Philosophy of Education, Poststructuralism, Ethnography.

Professor John Bitchener

Professor of Applied Linguistics

Second language acquisition/learning; second language development; written corrective feedback; feedback on academic genres; effective supervisor feedback.

Professor Allan Bell

Professor of Language and Communication, Director of the Institute of Culture, Discourse and Communication (ICDC)

Discourse analysis of biblical texts, social and linguistic aspects of the Internet, stylisation in mass communication, language and identity, sociolinguistic and communication theory, science communication, multilingualism in New Zealand.

Associate Professor Pat Strauss

Associate Professor, Programme Leader

Academic literacies; issues of agency and identity; group assessment; postgraduate supervision and teaching; academic language support; issues and challenges of international students; vocational and academic literacies at postgraduate level; bridging and foundation studies programmes.

Dr Paul Mountfort

Programme Leader; Studies and Chair, Centre for Creative Writing

Popular genres, transmedia storytelling, visual language, new media and learning, hypermedia, digital literacies, ecological literacies.

Dr Philippa Smith

Research manager Institute of Culture, Discourse and Communication; Senior Lecturer

Discourse analysis, critical discourse analysis, media, new media, language and communication, identity construction and representation.

Dr Junji Kawai

Senior Lecturer in Japanese

Phonology, optimality theory, casual speech phenomena, Japanese language education.

Associate Professor Ineke Crezee

Translation and Interpreting

Research expertise: Health translation/interpreting; translation/interpreting pedagogies; corpus-based translation; bilingualism in migrant settings; language attrition, shift and reversion; literary translation; interpreting idiomatic language.

Dr George Major

Lecturer, Programme Leader NZSL and Deaf Studies; NZSL-English Interpreting

Discourse analysis and interactional sociolinguistics, narrative analysis, interpreting and interpreting pedagogies, New Zealand Sign Language linguistics, health communication, workplace communication

Dr Graeme Couper

Senior Lecturer

Second language learning and teaching, pronunciation learning and teaching, teacher cognition of pronunciation teaching, classroom-based research, cognitive phonology applied to the classroom, classroom implications of usage based theories of language, new migrant issues.

Maria Hayward

Manager, Centre for Refugee Education

Refugee resettlement, refugee education, on-arrival programmes, refugee–centred approaches.

Poetry, short fiction, long fiction, the novel, creative nonfiction, memoir, New Zealand literature, women's fiction and the essay.

Siobhan Harvey

Lecturer

Poetry, short fiction, long fiction, the novel, creative nonfiction, memoir, New Zealand literature, women's fiction and the essay.

Helen Cartner

Senior Lecturer

Language teacher education; Social media and, education; Listening as an academic skill.

Dr Darryl Hocking

Senior Lecturer

Discourse analysis (multi-perspectival and mixed methodological approaches), communication in art and design education, exegetical writing for creative practice, academic literacies and English for academic purposes, genre analysis, corpus analysis, metaphor analysis

Denise Cameron

Senior Lecturer

Feedback on error. Individual differences in EAL learning – e.g. motivation, willingness to communicate.

Dr Shanjiang Yu

Senior Lecturer in Chinese

Language maintenance and language shift; Teaching and learning Chinese as a foreign language.

Dr Salainaoloa Wilson

Lecturer in International Studies

Language shift and maintenance, Samoan language sustainability

Susan Sun

Senior Lecturer in Chinese

Design for language learning; Design for online language learning; Learning environment and learner context; Epistemic pattern and design

Jo Anna Burn

Senior Lecturer

Legal interpreting, legal language, legal questioning and pragmatic equivalence in interpreting, innovative technology to enhance student interpreter learning, self and peer evaluative feedback to enhance learning, language maintenance and attrition.