Louisa Buckingham
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 173569 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Louisa Buckingham |
| NOMBRES | Louisa |
| APELLIDO | Buckingham |
| FIRMA | BUCKINGHAM L |
| AFILIACIONES | University of Auckland |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-9423-0664 |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 44 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 62 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 43 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 1 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2013 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 5 |
Reinvigorating Punjabi language through popular media
Using Ethnolinguistic Vitality Theory, this study examines the attitudes of Punjabi youth towards Punjabi language and their engagement with Punjabi popular media (movies, music, and social media). Questionnaire data were collected from 1,139 university students in Lahore, Pakistan. These young adults displayed highly positive attitudes towards Punjabi and frequently engaged with Punjabi-language popular media content that originated in both Indi…
Late‐Life Migration Among Older Chinese
Older migrants' migration decisions are shaped by both contextual and individual factors. Previous studies have tended to overlook the structural drivers of migration and the interaction between structural and agentic factors in migration decision‐making. Drawing on a critical realist perspective, this study examines these factors and their interrelationships among 18 older Chinese migrants in New Zealand. Three key structural drivers were identi…
Enhancing learners’ genre competence in proposal writing with data-driven learning
This study proposed a genre-based data-driven learning (DDL) pedagogical framework and explored its effectiveness in enhancing English as a foreign language (EFL) learners’ genre competence in research proposal writing. Two classes of undergraduates participated in this study. The experimental class received instruction based on a genre-based DDL pedagogical framework (n = 23), while the control class received traditional teacher-led instruction …
Cross-sectional distribution of authorial presence in medicine research articles
Developing Pre‐Service Teachers’ Digital Self‐Efficacy Through Self‐Directed Language Learning
Contemporary online language learning typically involves the use of multiple digital platforms. Drawing on digital self‐efficacy and self‐directed learning theories, this study investigates the self‐directed language learning experience of 19 pre‐service teachers as they navigate the affordances of two platforms, Duolingo and ChatGPT. We collected data through participants’ theory‐informed reflections on their learning experiences and screenshots…
An Empirical Study of Older Chinese Migrants’ Use of Coping Strategies for Language Challenges
Host-country language competence is an important contributor to older migrants’ well-being. Language-related challenges can be pervasive in everyday life, and impact older migrants’ overall wellbeing. We conceptualize language-related challenges as potential stressors. Drawing on coping theory, we examine the strategies that older migrants employ to cope. Based on interviews and go-alongs with 18 older Chinese migrants in Auckland, New Zealand, w…
The development and trends of complex dynamic systems theory in applied linguistics
This study investigates the evolutionary trajectory of complex dynamic systems theory (CDST) in applied linguistics from a bibliometric perspective. Drawing on a dataset comprising 290 citing papers sourced from the Web of Science Core Collection and Scopus (1997–2023), Citespace was employed to examine the major themes, seminal works, developmental phases, citation trajectories, academic venues, and transformative publications. Underpinned by Sh…
The English-language learning difficulties of older migrants in New Zealand
Older migrants are often later-life language learners by necessity. While the bulk of extant research on older language learners focuses on those who elect language learning as a constructive leisure pursuit, for older migrants with low proficiency in the dominant host country language, progress in language learning is a key factor that contributes to their independence, social inclusion, and well-being. Drawing on the life-course perspective, th…
Advising Parents on Heritage Language Maintenance
Migrant-heritage parents may lack confidence in their skills and knowledge related to bilingual child raising. This qualitative study explores the communicative act of advice giving to caregivers (14 mothers) of young children in New Zealand, following the integrated model of advice giving. Participants had expressed interest in improving their ability to raise their children bilingually (Mandarin Chinese and English) and had solicited advice on …
Digital agency and daily life challenges
This study examined the use of technology for daily life challenges by older Chinese migrants ( n = 18) with very limited English proficiency in Auckland, New Zealand. The aim of this study was to build on the theory of digital agency to understand how older migrants’ use technological tools to combat daily challenges and enhance their well-being. Employing a combination of questionnaires, interviews, and go-alongs, we identified language barrier…
Go-along language teaching
Older learners of English in ESL contexts are an underserved learner type.Courses typically do not cater to their age-related cognitive and physiological needs and link curriculum content with their typical everyday life activities.This study presents go-along teaching (GAT) as a pedagogical approach for older migrant learners of English by demonstrating the implementation of GAT with an intact class.We describe the sequenced instructional proced…
Viewing family mealtime interactions from a task-based perspective
In migrant heritage households, food preparation and food consumption (FPC) activities often constitute an important aspect of remembering and reliving the heritage country. In families with young children, mealtimes can be important opportunities to socialise children into behaviours, practices and sensory perceptions related to their food heritage, and model and enact culturally appropriate practices in the heritage language. FPC activities inv…
Lexical bundles across IMRD-structured Medicine research article sections
Learning Māori beyond the classroom with the linguistic landscape
This study explores the use of the linguistic landscape (LL) by two recent migrants to New Zealand as a resource for language learning beyond the classroom (LBC) from a socio-cognitive perspective. With a focus on learning Māori, we inquire into these beginner-level language learners’ experience of using bilingual public signage as the primary learning resource over a fourmonth period, with a specific focus on the learners’ interest, perceived se…
Task-based language learning and the daily-life language challenges of older Chinese migrants
This article explores the relationship between place and the language challenges experienced by older Chinese migrants in Auckland with low English proficiency while undertaking daily-life errands. The ability to independently fulfil daily-life needs outside the home is a key factor that influences wellbeing and facilitates the social inclusion of older migrants. Informed by the sociocognitive perspective of everyday contexts as presenting place-…
Local government consultations in practice
Methodological Reflections for Qualitative Research with Older Migrants
Older migrants often constitute a hard-to-reach demographic group for researchers, particularly those who are ethnolinguistic minorities with limited host country language competence. Acknowledging the heterogeneous profiles of older people and their particular life histories, in this article we discuss the methodological challenges in conducting qualitative research with older Chinese migrants. We report on our experience during data collection …
Author self-reference
Language choice and academic publishing
The choice of language for publishing is a topic of particular significance for scholars of languages other than English (LOTE) due to the importance of publishing in the professional language for maintaining expertise in the written academic register of the respective language. While the multilingual ability of such scholars means they can potentially publish in multiple languages (i.e. their first language, the professional language and English…
A discourse dynamics exploration of terminology for Covid-19 in professional and public discourse
This study identified terminology used in academia and media relating to Covid-19 and traced its development across 20 months from a discourse dynamics perspective. The cross-corpus comparison identified significant differences between the two corpora in the use of terminology relating to Covid-19, thereby signaling the particularities of the two communities towards the same social event. The dynamic analysis reveals a non-linear trajectory in th…
The socioeconomic trajectories of New Zealand's diverse language communities
The extent of demographic diversity in some migrant‐receiving countries has led to the formation of majority‐minority (or superdiverse) cities, a phenomenon also found in New Zealand. Recognising that demographic diversity is dynamic, sensitive to mobility patterns and shifts in socioeconomic indicators, this study examines diversity through the lens of common (nonofficial) languages ( n = 21), by employing customised census data spanning five co…
Academic Research Network Management
Academic research networks (ARNs) play an increasingly important role in supporting academics’ research productivity and career development. Research on ARN management has investigated issues related to publishing in English and/or in local languages in different disciplinary and geographic contexts; nevertheless, how lecturers of foreign languages (other than English) in non-western countries manage their multilingual ARNs is under-researched. E…
A Critical Approach to Interviewing Academic Elites
To date, research on elite interviews has primarily focused on political or business settings in European and Anglo-American contexts. In this study, we examine the procedures involved in conducting elite interviews in academic settings, drawing on fieldwork with 53 senior scholars at 10 universities across five regions of northern China. We provide a detailed, critically reflective account of strategies to gain access, develop trust, and manage …
Identity construction and its collocation networks
This study investigates the use of explicit manifestations of authorial identity (namely self-mention pronouns) and their collocation networks in academic and workplace written texts. Based on a purpose-built corpus of research articles and the Hong Kong Financial Services Corpus (HKFSC), this study used Antconc and Graphcoll to extract and analyze the pronouns and their collocation networks. The statistical analysis shows that the academic regis…
Mapping out the disciplinary variation of syntactic complexity in student academic writing
Attitudes to E nglish teachers' accents in the G ulf
While the spread of E nglish as a lingua franca has led to calls for multidialectal competence, EFL learners often still consider inner circle native E nglish speaker ( NES ) pronunciation as their learning goal, and may profess a preference for particular teachers based on their NES or non‐native E nglish speaker ( NNES ) status. This study investigates whether a teacher's NES / NNES status may affect O mani students' level of confidence towards…
Promoting speaking proficiency and willingness to communicate in Turkish young learners of English through asynchronous computer-mediated practice
Recognising English accents in the community
Previous research has revealed that although EFL students may claim to prefer British/US accents they often have difficulty identifying them, especially when such accents may differ from ‘standard’ accents presented in ELT materials. In the Gulf, English is widely used as a lingua franca or as a second language by the large expatriate workforce. Particular accents in English characteristic for L1 speakers of Arabic or South Asian languages are co…
Commercial signage and the linguistic landscape of Oman
This study examines how the promotion of goods and services is lexicalized in commercial signs on shops in contemporary Omani society. The analysis of lexical features is based on data drawn from a corpus of over 1,600 signs photographed nation-wide. Processes identified include the lexicalization of cultural concepts, lexical innovation and borrowing, foreign cultural referents, and the use of repetition, attributes, and generalization and speci…
Building a Career in English
This study investigates how a group of 30 multilingual academics, all users of English as an additional language ( EAL ) working at a private university in Oman, acquired discourse community membership in their disciplines through publishing in English, and the strategies they use to sustain the level of literacy needed to disseminate their research in refereed journals while working on the periphery. The participants, from the natural sciences, …
Go-along language teaching
Older learners of English in ESL contexts are an underserved learner type.Courses typically do not cater to their age-related cognitive and physiological needs and link curriculum content with their typical everyday life activities.This study presents go-along teaching (GAT) as a pedagogical approach for older migrant learners of English by demonstrating the implementation of GAT with an intact class.We describe the sequenced instructional proced…
A Critical Approach to Interviewing Academic Elites
To date, research on elite interviews has primarily focused on political or business settings in European and Anglo-American contexts. In this study, we examine the procedures involved in conducting elite interviews in academic settings, drawing on fieldwork with 53 senior scholars at 10 universities across five regions of northern China. We provide a detailed, critically reflective account of strategies to gain access, develop trust, and manage …
Migration and ethnic diversity reflected in the linguistic landscape of Costa Rica’s Central Valley
Costa Rica attracts one of the highest numbers of migrants per capita in Latin America and it is one of the main destinations for inter-regional migrants. The impact of growing numbers of long-term migrants with a very different socio-economic (and often also linguistic) profile from the majority of local inhabitants is perceptible across various commercial sectors. Previous research has observed an increasing ‘Englishization’ of the linguistic l…
Ethnolinguistic diversity in New Zealand
Changes in New Zealand's immigration policy from the 1980s onwards contributed to growing diversity in the source country of migrants, and has transformed the ethnolinguistic composition of the country's population in recent decades. The number of people who speak non-official languages is increasing, while the proportion of the English-speaking monolingual population is gradually decreasing. Many immigrants have been unable to integrate into the…
Extreme parallels
In this study, we examine key psychological dimensions in the manifestos authored by the perpetrators of the Christchurch and Utøya massacres, the right‐wing extremists Brenton Tarrant and Anders Breivik, and the ISIS propaganda magazine Rumiyah. All texts were authored and disseminated virtually with the purpose of attracting or consolidating support, and justifying violent, discriminatory actions. While right‐wing supremacist and extremist Isla…
Fresh variants and formulations frozen’
This study analyses structural features of E nglish on commercial signs on shop frontages throughout O man. The study identifies frequently used structural features which appear to be undergoing a process of nativization ( S chneider 2003) within the context of this text type. These include word class flexibility, the extensive use of the gerund at the end of noun phrases and the use of multiple verbs to itemize discrete activities. In some cases…
Mixed messages of solidarity in the Mediterranean
This study examines the portrayal of Turkey as a potential EU member in the media narrative of Spain’s El País from 1999 to 2010. Spain has been a consistent advocate of Turkey’s possible accession on a political level, and, according to survey data, support from the Spanish population is higher than in most other EU countries. The study investigates how newspaper coverage portrays support for and opposition to Turkey’s bid for membership, and th…
Task-based language learning and the daily-life language challenges of older Chinese migrants
This article explores the relationship between place and the language challenges experienced by older Chinese migrants in Auckland with low English proficiency while undertaking daily-life errands. The ability to independently fulfil daily-life needs outside the home is a key factor that influences wellbeing and facilitates the social inclusion of older migrants. Informed by the sociocognitive perspective of everyday contexts as presenting place-…
Methodological Reflections for Qualitative Research with Older Migrants
Older migrants often constitute a hard-to-reach demographic group for researchers, particularly those who are ethnolinguistic minorities with limited host country language competence. Acknowledging the heterogeneous profiles of older people and their particular life histories, in this article we discuss the methodological challenges in conducting qualitative research with older Chinese migrants. We report on our experience during data collection …
Language choice and academic publishing
The choice of language for publishing is a topic of particular significance for scholars of languages other than English (LOTE) due to the importance of publishing in the professional language for maintaining expertise in the written academic register of the respective language. While the multilingual ability of such scholars means they can potentially publish in multiple languages (i.e. their first language, the professional language and English…
Mapping out the disciplinary variation of syntactic complexity in student academic writing
A discourse dynamics exploration of attitudinal responses towards Covid-19 in academia and media
This study analyzes attitudinal positioning in academic and media discourse pertaining to COVID-19 from the COVID-19 Corpus and Coronavirus Corpus, using a discourse dynamics approach. Underpinning this approach is the Complex Dynamic Systems Theory (CDST), which we employ to examine the discursive practices of a discourse event across time periods (timescales). The analysis identified significant differences in attitudinal markers and noteworthy…
The textual colligation of stance phraseology in cross-disciplinary academic discourse
This study investigates the textual colligation of stance phrases at the levels of sentence, paragraph and text in empirical research articles from agriculture and economics. We extracted the textual positions of stance phrases with the software Wordskew ( Barlow, 2016 ) in two purpose-built corpora of around three million tokens. The results show that stance phrases display similar distribution patterns in the two disciplinary corpora; however, …
Race, space and commerce in multi-ethnic Costa Rica
Costa Rica officially became a multi-ethnic, pluricultural nation in 2015. Representatives from the principal minorities, in particular Afro-Costa Ricans and indigenous peoples, played an important role in contesting the erstwhile dominant narrative of Costa Rican's white European settler heritage. One of the intended consequences of the constitutional amendment was to ensure greater salience of ethnic minorities in public policy and social life.…
Shades of cosmopolitanism
Research suggests that passing for a native English speaker (NES) is often perceived as desirable by teachers of English as a Foreign Language (EFL) and employers, and students may claim to prefer certain NES accents as learning models. While this may be partly motivated by the prevalence of a particular regional accent in ESL contexts or indicative of a stronger socioeconomic orientation towards, for instance, either the US or the UK in EFL cont…
Light verb constructions in Latin American newspapers
This article examines the occurrence of variant forms of Spanish light verb constructions (LVCs) in a seven-million-word corpus of contemporary newspaper texts from seven Latin American countries. The findings from this corpus are compared with results from a previous study using a corpus of scholarly writing; additional information from a diachronic perspective is provided by data from the Corpus del Español. The structures selected for discussi…
Mixed messages of solidarity in the Mediterranean
This study examines the portrayal of Turkey as a potential EU member in the media narrative of Spain’s El País from 1999 to 2010. Spain has been a consistent advocate of Turkey’s possible accession on a political level, and, according to survey data, support from the Spanish population is higher than in most other EU countries. The study investigates how newspaper coverage portrays support for and opposition to Turkey’s bid for membership, and th…
Attitudes to E nglish teachers' accents in the G ulf
While the spread of E nglish as a lingua franca has led to calls for multidialectal competence, EFL learners often still consider inner circle native E nglish speaker ( NES ) pronunciation as their learning goal, and may profess a preference for particular teachers based on their NES or non‐native E nglish speaker ( NNES ) status. This study investigates whether a teacher's NES / NNES status may affect O mani students' level of confidence towards…
Fresh variants and formulations frozen’
This study analyses structural features of E nglish on commercial signs on shop frontages throughout O man. The study identifies frequently used structural features which appear to be undergoing a process of nativization ( S chneider 2003) within the context of this text type. These include word class flexibility, the extensive use of the gerund at the end of noun phrases and the use of multiple verbs to itemize discrete activities. In some cases…
Building a Career in English
This study investigates how a group of 30 multilingual academics, all users of English as an additional language ( EAL ) working at a private university in Oman, acquired discourse community membership in their disciplines through publishing in English, and the strategies they use to sustain the level of literacy needed to disseminate their research in refereed journals while working on the periphery. The participants, from the natural sciences, …
Doing a Research Project in English Studies
Doing a Research Project in English Studies is the essential guide to undertaking research and developing academic English literacy skills for students new to research. With a particular focus on the needs of students in contexts where English is used as a foreign or an additional language, this accessible textbook takes the reader through the research process in five main sections: getting started (arriving at a topic, interacting with a supervi…
Shades of cosmopolitanism
Research suggests that passing for a native English speaker (NES) is often perceived as desirable by teachers of English as a Foreign Language (EFL) and employers, and students may claim to prefer certain NES accents as learning models. While this may be partly motivated by the prevalence of a particular regional accent in ESL contexts or indicative of a stronger socioeconomic orientation towards, for instance, either the US or the UK in EFL cont…
Recognising English accents in the community
Previous research has revealed that although EFL students may claim to prefer British/US accents they often have difficulty identifying them, especially when such accents may differ from ‘standard’ accents presented in ELT materials. In the Gulf, English is widely used as a lingua franca or as a second language by the large expatriate workforce. Particular accents in English characteristic for L1 speakers of Arabic or South Asian languages are co…
Commercial signage and the linguistic landscape of Oman
This study examines how the promotion of goods and services is lexicalized in commercial signs on shops in contemporary Omani society. The analysis of lexical features is based on data drawn from a corpus of over 1,600 signs photographed nation-wide. Processes identified include the lexicalization of cultural concepts, lexical innovation and borrowing, foreign cultural referents, and the use of repetition, attributes, and generalization and speci…
Language, Identity and Education on the Arabian Peninsula
This collection examines the urban multilingual realities of inhabitants of the Arabian Peninsula in the early 21st century from the perspectives of learners, teachers and researchers. Focusing on both public and private spheres, it considers the importance of both English and immigrants’ languages in a context of rapid socioeconomic development.
Promoting speaking proficiency and willingness to communicate in Turkish young learners of English through asynchronous computer-mediated practice
The textual colligation of stance phraseology in cross-disciplinary academic discourse
This study investigates the textual colligation of stance phrases at the levels of sentence, paragraph and text in empirical research articles from agriculture and economics. We extracted the textual positions of stance phrases with the software Wordskew ( Barlow, 2016 ) in two purpose-built corpora of around three million tokens. The results show that stance phrases display similar distribution patterns in the two disciplinary corpora; however, …
Race, space and commerce in multi-ethnic Costa Rica
Costa Rica officially became a multi-ethnic, pluricultural nation in 2015. Representatives from the principal minorities, in particular Afro-Costa Ricans and indigenous peoples, played an important role in contesting the erstwhile dominant narrative of Costa Rican's white European settler heritage. One of the intended consequences of the constitutional amendment was to ensure greater salience of ethnic minorities in public policy and social life.…
Extreme parallels
In this study, we examine key psychological dimensions in the manifestos authored by the perpetrators of the Christchurch and Utøya massacres, the right‐wing extremists Brenton Tarrant and Anders Breivik, and the ISIS propaganda magazine Rumiyah. All texts were authored and disseminated virtually with the purpose of attracting or consolidating support, and justifying violent, discriminatory actions. While right‐wing supremacist and extremist Isla…
Migration and ethnic diversity reflected in the linguistic landscape of Costa Rica’s Central Valley
Costa Rica attracts one of the highest numbers of migrants per capita in Latin America and it is one of the main destinations for inter-regional migrants. The impact of growing numbers of long-term migrants with a very different socio-economic (and often also linguistic) profile from the majority of local inhabitants is perceptible across various commercial sectors. Previous research has observed an increasing ‘Englishization’ of the linguistic l…
Ethnolinguistic diversity in New Zealand
Changes in New Zealand's immigration policy from the 1980s onwards contributed to growing diversity in the source country of migrants, and has transformed the ethnolinguistic composition of the country's population in recent decades. The number of people who speak non-official languages is increasing, while the proportion of the English-speaking monolingual population is gradually decreasing. Many immigrants have been unable to integrate into the…
The linguistic landscape and materials development
Despite the wide acceptance of the contributions of linguistic landscape (LL) research to sociolinguistic analyses, models of how the LL can be exploited to practise specific features of the language system have been lacking. In this study we focus on Mandarin Chinese, an important community language, to document the development of LL-based materials to practise language-specific elements of the linguistic system (such as understanding the hierar…
A discourse dynamics exploration of attitudinal responses towards Covid-19 in academia and media
This study analyzes attitudinal positioning in academic and media discourse pertaining to COVID-19 from the COVID-19 Corpus and Coronavirus Corpus, using a discourse dynamics approach. Underpinning this approach is the Complex Dynamic Systems Theory (CDST), which we employ to examine the discursive practices of a discourse event across time periods (timescales). The analysis identified significant differences in attitudinal markers and noteworthy…
Identity construction and its collocation networks
This study investigates the use of explicit manifestations of authorial identity (namely self-mention pronouns) and their collocation networks in academic and workplace written texts. Based on a purpose-built corpus of research articles and the Hong Kong Financial Services Corpus (HKFSC), this study used Antconc and Graphcoll to extract and analyze the pronouns and their collocation networks. The statistical analysis shows that the academic regis…
Mapping out the disciplinary variation of syntactic complexity in student academic writing
Choice of Mosque and Ethnolinguistic Homophily
In this study, we identify the factors that Muslim migrants in Auckland, New Zealand's gateway city, prioritize when seeking to identify a suitable mosque, and the significance that frequenting a mosque has in their lives. We explore factors related to ethnicity, culture, language, belonging and the intergenerational transmission of religious knowledge and values from the theoretical perspective of homophily, or the tendency of individuals to soc…
A discourse dynamics exploration of terminology for Covid-19 in professional and public discourse
This study identified terminology used in academia and media relating to Covid-19 and traced its development across 20 months from a discourse dynamics perspective. The cross-corpus comparison identified significant differences between the two corpora in the use of terminology relating to Covid-19, thereby signaling the particularities of the two communities towards the same social event. The dynamic analysis reveals a non-linear trajectory in th…
The socioeconomic trajectories of New Zealand's diverse language communities
The extent of demographic diversity in some migrant‐receiving countries has led to the formation of majority‐minority (or superdiverse) cities, a phenomenon also found in New Zealand. Recognising that demographic diversity is dynamic, sensitive to mobility patterns and shifts in socioeconomic indicators, this study examines diversity through the lens of common (nonofficial) languages ( n = 21), by employing customised census data spanning five co…
Academic Research Network Management
Academic research networks (ARNs) play an increasingly important role in supporting academics’ research productivity and career development. Research on ARN management has investigated issues related to publishing in English and/or in local languages in different disciplinary and geographic contexts; nevertheless, how lecturers of foreign languages (other than English) in non-western countries manage their multilingual ARNs is under-researched. E…
A Critical Approach to Interviewing Academic Elites
To date, research on elite interviews has primarily focused on political or business settings in European and Anglo-American contexts. In this study, we examine the procedures involved in conducting elite interviews in academic settings, drawing on fieldwork with 53 senior scholars at 10 universities across five regions of northern China. We provide a detailed, critically reflective account of strategies to gain access, develop trust, and manage …
Sociology (24 obras) · Linguistics (22 obras) · Computer Science (20 obras) · Psychology (20 obras) · Political science (12 obras) · Multilingual Education and Policy (10 obras) · Discourse Analysis in Language Studies (9 obras) · EFL/ESL Teaching and Learning (9 obras) · Mathematics education (8 obras) · Pedagogy (8 obras)