Education: Theses and Dissertations: Recent submissions
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Foreign language anxiety and writing performance : the effectiveness of using a learner corpus and peer corrective feedback with students learning Chinese as a foreign language.
(2022)The teaching and learning of Chinese as a foreign language has been attracting the attention of researchers, language educators and other stakeholders worldwide. How to teach Chinese to non-native speakers effectively and ... -
Some educational implications of a rural environment
(1945)The absolute isolation of the rural areas of New Zealand has undoubtedly disappeared during the last few decades, due, in the main, to modern trends and scientific inventions, and partly to the changing outlook ... -
Factors affecting the adjustment and academic performance of Malaysian students at the University of Canterbury
(1983)For many foreign students, trying to fit into a new society without any formal introduction requires strenuous effort and the problems encountered are not to be underestimated. If, in fact, most foreign students do encounter ... -
The adjustment to school of five Down's syndrome children from the I.H.C. early intervention programme
(1984)The present study investigated the adjustment to school of five Down's Syndrome children - four of whom had participated in the I.H.C Early Intervention Programme since birth. Direct observation was used to record the ... -
Writing strategies, English proficiency and rhetorical patterns influences on the written outputs of Indonesian students with English as foreign language.
(2022)The quality of international students’ writing in English is influenced by several factors, such as writing strategies, level of English proficiency, and the rhetorical patterns used. However, how these variables might ... -
New Zealand secondary school principals’ understanding and application of laws relating to student discipline: a socio-legal mixed methods study.
(2022)Education is a fundamental human right. For some children their right to education is denied when they are removed from school on disciplinary grounds. New Zealand Ministry of Education data shows substantial variation ... -
"Residential treatment of emotionally disturbed and socially maladjusted children in New Zealand and adequacy of their subsequent adjustment : a follow-up study of pupils of the McKenzie Residential School 1971-1976."
(1977)A follow-up study of eighty-one pupils who have been discharged from the McKenzie Residential School for emotionally disturbed and socially maladjusted children, in Christchurch, New Zealand. -
Transition from school to work : the educational response to the present economic crisis
(1984)This paper attempts at appraising the nature and significance of Transition education, in the context of the present economic crisis. As a starting point, the Liberal bias to the N.Z. educational approach will be briefly ... -
A study of students referred to Rotorua Activity Centre
(1988)The research was based on the students and the parents of the students attending Awhina High School (Rotorua Activity Centre) and had the aims of describing the students who attended this school and comparing them with a ... -
Special-class intermediate pupils in the school library
(1987)A detailed examination of the behaviours of 78 special class intermediate pupils during their weekly library period revealed that 91.5% of their behaviours related to library usage, while only 8.5% were unrelated.Behaviours ... -
The perceptions of six psychodrama trainees of their training in the Christchurch Institute for Training in Psychodrama
(1990)This study was undertaken to evaluate how six psychodrama trainees perceived their training process with the Christchurch Institute for Training in Psychodrama. Three Core Curriculum and three Intermediate trainees were ...