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The Acquisition of English as a Second Language by Young Tokelau Children Living in New Zealand

Jamieson, Penelope (Victoria University of Wellington, 1976)

Young Tokelau children living in New Zealand are members of one of the smallest linguistic minorities in the country. Many speak the Tokelau language at home, and so their first sustained contact with the English language ...
The acquisition of variation: Arab migrants' acquisition of (ING) and Coronal Stop Deletion in Wellington

Za'rour, Rania (Victoria University of Wellington, 2018)

This dissertation investigates the patterns of acquisition found among Arab migrants to Wellington for two stable variables: coronal stop deletion (CSD) and (ING). CSD is the alternation between retained and deleted final ...
A Corpus-Based Investigation of Idiomatic Multiword Units

Grant, Lynn E (Victoria University of Wellington, 2003)

Idioms - a type of multiword unit (MWU) - are defined as being non-compositional and in general cannot be understood by adding together the meanings of the individual words that comprise the MWU. Because of this, they ...
A Socio-Cultural Analysis of Learning English in Unassisted and Assisted Peer Groups at University in Vietnam

Le, Pham Hoai Huong (Victoria University of Wellington, 2004)

The fieldwork for this study was carried out in Vietnam over a period of three months with a class of 45 first-year university students who were learning English as a foreign language. The conceptual framework was sociocultural ...
Whakawhanaungatanga A-Reo: An Indigenous Grounded Theory for the Revitalization of Māori Language Speech Communities

Pohe, Ewan James (Victoria University of Wellington, 2012)

This study focuses on the role of adult Māori language acquisition in the revitalization of the Māori language. Māori language transmission is now primarily dependent on transmission through educational institutions. The ...