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Linguistics Programme

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Linguistics at the University of Otago is part of the Department of English in the Division of Humanities.

The Linguistics Programme offers not only a full undergraduate programme, Honours, MA and PhD, but also a number of courses in second language acquisition, and teaching of English as a second language with a view to meeting the rapidly increasing demand for teachers of English here in New Zealand and overseas.

Recent Deposits

Investigating and Enhancing Willingness to Communicate and Motivational Self-System of Yemeni Rural EFL Learners

Al-Murtadha, Mutahar Ahmed (Thesis, Doctor of Philosophy, 2017)

A major problem in second language (L2) learning and teaching is learners’ low willingness to communicate (WTC). WTC refers to the extent to which an individual is ready to initiate communication with others. Some L2 ...
Relativization in Korean: Formal Restrictions and Functional Solutions

Lee, Jieun (Thesis, Doctor of Philosophy, 2017)

This study is about how Korean deals with restrictions in relative clause (RC) formation by using constructions that are functionally similar to an RC. Korean is regarded as a language that uses the pronoun-retention ...
Of Beauty and Its Other: Janet Frame's Ethical Aesthetics

Hume, Samuel (Thesis, Master of Arts, 2016)

In this thesis, I argue that Janet Frame's experimental aesthetics are the manifestation of an ethical impulse that runs throughout her oeuvre. In making such an argument, I contribute to the recent scholarship that places ...
An exploration of ESL learners' emergent beliefs about academic group work and peer review at a New Zealand university

Hislop, Jane Louise (Thesis, Doctor of Philosophy, 2016)

This qualitative study explored ESL learners’ emergent beliefs about academic group work and peer review at a New Zealand university. The thesis focuses on learners’ beliefs about the factors that are necessary for successful ...
Samuel Beckett and the Emergence of the Nominalist Ethic

Phillips, Holly Louise (Thesis, Doctor of Philosophy, 2016)

In this thesis, I argue that Samuel Beckett’s 1932 encounter with late-medieval Nominalism in Wilhelm Windelband’s History of Philosophy (1901) was a decisive factor in the emergence of his mature aesthetic. Beckett’s early ...
Intercultural Communicative Language Teaching: Enhancing awareness and practice through cultural portfolio projects

Oranje, Joanne Maree (Thesis, Doctor of Philosophy, 2016)

Recommended in language education curricula around the world, intercultural communicative language teaching (ICLT) is also promoted by the New Zealand Ministry of Education for teaching and learning languages at secondary ...
Being-in-Light at the Early Modern and Reconstructed Theatres

Vallelly, Neil (Thesis, Doctor of Philosophy, 2015)

Being-in-Light explores how people experienced light in the sixteenth and seventeenth century, and to what extent these experiences impacted upon theatrical experience and practice in the period. Furthermore, it considers ...
The Relationships Among Learning Styles, Learning Strategy Use, and English Proficiency of Chinese EFL University Students: A Mixed Methods Study

Zhang, Juan (Thesis, Doctor of Philosophy, 2015)

This study investigates the multi-dimensional learning style preferences, learning strategy use, and English proficiency of Chinese EFL students studying at a university in the north-eastern part of China, with a focus on ...
'Neither here nor there, and therefore home': A Poetics of Migration in Contemporary Irish Poetry

McDaid, Ailbhe (Thesis, Doctor of Philosophy, 2015)

This thesis proposes a reading of the migration impulse in contemporary Irish poetry, arguing for a distinctive nexus of memory and an ethic of reinvention. It sets out how contemporary poets reinvent inherited tropes of ...
Maisin: A grammatical description of an oceanic language in Papua New Guinea

Frampton, Joanna (Thesis, Master of Arts, 2015)

Maisin: a grammatical description of an Oceanic language in PNG is a descriptive study of the Maisin language, spoken in Collingwood Bay, on the north coast of Oro Province, Papua New Guinea, with particular treatment of ...
Grounded narrative inquiry into language teacher cognition: Stories and case studies on English language teaching in South Korea

Moodie, Ian (Thesis, Doctor of Philosophy, 2015)

This thesis contributes to the field of language teacher cognition (LTC) research by investigating LTC and development in South Korea (Korea, hereafter), where English is taught by non-native English speaking teachers ...
The effects of L1 and L2 group discussions on L2 reading comprehension

Turnbull, Blake Alexander (Thesis, Master of Arts, 2015)

Because learners evidently access and utilise their first language (L1) throughout the second language (L2) learning process (Cook, 1992), there is no logical reason why they should avoid its use (Cook, 2001). This ...
Self-Regulation During A Reading-To-Write Task: A Sociocultural Theory-Based Investigation

Wall, Bunjong (Thesis, Doctor of Philosophy, 2015)

Most composition studies focus on students’ writing processes and written products without integrating reading into their research activities. More recently, researchers have acknowledged the reciprocal reading-writing ...
Textual borrowing in an English for Academic Purposes class: Knowledge, practices and beliefs

Henderson, Sally Jane (Thesis, Doctor of Philosophy, 2015)

Research on source use and plagiarism in second language writing in recent years has suggested that rather than being the result of intent to deceive or moral failure on the part of the student, unacknowledged textual ...
Relativisation and Accessibility: A Corpus Analysis of Relative Clauses in Arabic Written Texts

Al-Zaghir, Zainab Marzouk (Thesis, Doctor of Philosophy, 2014)

Keenan and Comrie (1977) posited that the Noun Phrase Accessibility Hierarchy (NPAH) is a universal hierarchy determining the use of relative clauses in written and spoken communication. The NPAH states that the accessibility ...
A Very Mobile Meal: the Evolution of Ernest Hemingway's A Moveable Feast

Davis, Alexander (Thesis, Master of Arts, 2013)

A Moveable Feast is a memoir about Hemingway's early years in Paris from 1921-1926, written as a series of themed sketches – each sketch focused on an event, a place, or a person. The food and fights of Paris were vividly ...
Rewiring the Avant-Gardes: Brian Kim Stefans’s Digital Poetics

Tierney, Orchid (Thesis, Master of Arts, 2013)

In the age of digital information, poetry and praxis are integrated with wireless technologies and hardware circuitry. These technologies not only permit unprecedented access to a variety of material, but they also enable ...
Weaving the Past into an Unfolding Present: Subject Formation in the Māori Novel

Tan, Yanwei (Thesis, Doctor of Philosophy, 2013)

This thesis investigates how four of the most prominent contemporary Māori novelists—Keri Hulme, Alan Duff, Witi Ihimaera and Patricia Grace—have explored in their novels the significance of the Māori past in the formation ...
Playing Games with Kenneth Koch: Poetry, Collaboration, Pedagogy

Mathews, Cy Elza (Thesis, Doctor of Philosophy, 2013)

Play and games are of great importance to post–Second World War U.S. avant-garde poetry. Yet their key role has so far gone unrecognized and unexplored due to the neglect of play and game-oriented theoretical frameworks ...
Patterns in conversations between Japanese students and New Zealand homestay parents

Pryde, Michael (Thesis, Doctor of Philosophy, 2013)

This thesis is a descriptive, qualitative analysis that involves 17-18 year old Japanese students on a study abroad programme. The study begins by reviewing the literature on study abroad, particularly on homestays, which ...