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Ko toku reo ko toku ia mana: My language, my identity - The Pacific language nest: How language, culture and traditions are supported and promoted for the Pacific communities of the Cook Islands, Niue and Tokelau in Aotearoa New Zealand

Glasgow, Ali (Victoria University of Wellington, 2019)

Within the early childhood sector of New Zealand, Pacific language nests have played a pivotal role in promoting Pacific education, language development and building Pacific communities. Pacific Island language nests have ...
K-Regular Matroids

Semple, Charles A (Victoria University of Wellington, 1998)

The class of matroids representable over all fields is the class of regular matroids. The class of matroids representable over all fields except perhaps GF(2) is the class of near-regular matroids. Let k be a non-negative ...
Lady-Husbands and Kamp Ladies: Pre-1970 Lesbian Life in Aotearoa/New Zealand

Laurie, Alison J (Victoria University of Wellington, 2003)

This study explores pre-1970 lesbian life and lives in Aotearoa/New Zealand before the impact of women's and gay liberation and lesbian-feminism, using written sources and oral histories. The thesis argues that before 1970 ...
LA-ICP-MS Trace Element Analysis of Planktonic Foraminifera and Application to Marine Isotope Stage 31 in the Southwest Pacific Ocean

Bolton, Annette (Victoria University of Wellington, 2011)

Trace element/Ca ratios were measured by LA-ICP-MS in Gs. ruber and N. incompta from a wide range of core top and plankton tow samples in the Southwest Pacific Ocean, with particular focus on linking measured Mg/Ca ratios ...
Land-cover choices and governance structures: lessons from Māori

Cortés Acosta, Sandra Liliana (Victoria University of Wellington, 2020)

Decisions on land utilisation and management have socio-economic and environmental implications. In this study, I use a mixed-methods approach to explore how Māori land governance structures influence decisions on land ...
Landscape aesthetics, tourism, and change: Case studies in Nepal

Joshi, Jharna (Victoria University of Wellington, 2019)

This research explores how residents and tourists perceive landscape aesthetics in tourism-based landscapes that are continuously changing. Three case study sites in Nepal are examined. Landscapes are dynamic, multifunctional ...
Land to Ocean Transfer of Erosion-Related Organic Carbon, Waipaoa Sedimentary System, East Coast, New Zealand

Brackley, Hannah Lema (Victoria University of Wellington, 2006)

Mountainous islands of the Pacific Rim (such as New Zealand) purportedly deliver up to 40% of the suspended sediment load and up to 35% of the riverine particulate organic carbon (POC) load to the world's oceans. On the ...
Langoron: Music and Dance Performance Realities Among the Lak People of Southern New Ireland, Papua New Guinea

Wolffram, Paul (Victoria University of Wellington, 2007)

This thesis seeks to describe the indigenous realities, meanings, and perspectives that are central to the music and dance practices of the Lak (Siar) people in Southern New Ireland, Papua Now Guinea. The insights recorded ...
Language and Cognitive Functions in a Neurological Tumour Population: A Long-Term Follow-Up Study

Fowler, Katherine (Victoria University of Wellington, 2018)

Complex cognitive capacities such as language and “executive function” are difficult to evaluate in neuropsychological populations due to their multifactorial nature. The current study takes a cognitively-motivated core-skills ...
Language AND Content? How do Curriculum Teachers of Year 12 English Language Learners Combine Two Disciplines?

Gleeson, Margaret (Victoria University of Wellington, 2010)

The provision of language instruction in secondary schools for students who speak English as an additional language (EAL) is moving from the domain of the English for speakers of other languages (ESOL) classroom where it ...
Language-Games in the Later Philosophy of Ludwig Wittgenstein

Sinclair, Michael Benjamin Warren (Victoria University of Wellington, 1974)

1.1 When I first looked, into Wittgenstein's Philosophical Investigations I felt not so much that this was great work, but that it was alive and exciting, a going concern. I next learned of its difficulty; it seemed to me ...
Language learner cognition: Exploring adult migrants’ L2 activity beyond the classroom

Navarro, Diego (Victoria University of Wellington, 2016)

For years, understanding the relationship between behaviour and cognition has been a central concern of research conducted in the social sciences. In fields as diverse as anthropology, business, medicine, and education it ...
Language Learning Strategies: An Action Research Study from a Sociocultural Perspective of Practices in Secondary School English Classes in the Seychelles

Simeon, Jemma Christina (Victoria University of Wellington, 2014)

Research on language learning strategies (LLS) suggests that LLS are indispensable to helping second language learners learn English (Oxford, Crookall et al. 2008). However, most research studies to date have been experimental ...
Language Policy in Multilingual Workplaces: Management, Practices and Beliefs in Banks in Luxembourg.

Kingsley, Leilarna Elizabeth (Victoria University of Wellington, 2010)

For decades the primary focus of language policy research has been activities by states and their agencies, while language policy activities in workplaces have attracted little attention. Addressing this gap, explicit and ...
Language Policy, Language Practices and Language Shift in Tabriz

Mirvahedi, Seyed Hadi (Victoria University of Wellington, 2014)

This thesis examines how Azeri, a minority language with the largest number of speakers in Iran, is marginalized by de facto monolingual language policies of the state favoring Farsi, the only official language, over Azeri ...
La Représentation du local, de l’universel et de la réalité dans Rue la Poudrière, Le Voile de Draupadi et Le Sari vert d’Ananda Devi

Dausoa, Mukta (Victoria University of Wellington, 2015)

This doctoral thesis, written in French and entitled « La Représentation du local, de l’universel et de la réalité dans Rue la Poudrière, Le Voile de Draupadi et Le Sari vert d’Ananda Devi », is an in-depth historico-sociological ...
Large Number of Rare Events: Diversity Analysis in Multiple Choice Questionnaires and Related Topics

Kvizhinadze, Giorgi (Victoria University of Wellington, 2010)

The statistical analysis of a large number of rare events, (LNRE), which can also be called statistical theory of diversity, is the subject of acute interest both in statistical theory and in numerous applications. A careful ...
L'Arte Di Interazione Musicale: New Musical Possibilities Through Multimodal Techniques

Hochenbaum, Jordan Natan (Victoria University of Wellington, 2013)

Multimodal communication is an essential aspect of human perception, facilitating the ability to reason, deduce, and understand meaning. Utilizing multimodal senses, humans are able to relate to the world in many ...
Last Cretaceous Geology of Taranaki Basin, New Zealand

Thrasher, Glenn Paul (Victoria University of Wellington, 1992)

Taranaki Basin is a large sedimentary basin located along the western side of New Zealand, which contains all of this countries present petroleum production. The basin first formed as the late-Cretaceous Taranaki Rift, and ...
The Last Glacial Maximum and Deglaciation in Southern New Zealand: New Pollen-Climate Reconstructions

Callard, Sarah Louise (Victoria University of Wellington, 2011)

The project builds upon existing knowledge of late Quaternary palaeoenvironmenta change and tests the recently developed New Zealand INTIMATE (Integration of Ice Marine and Terrestrial archive) climate event stratigraphy ...