J Parkinson
Biographic Data
| ID | 8454 |
|---|---|
| NAME | J Parkinson |
| GIVEN NAMES | J |
| FAMILY NAME | Parkinson |
| SIGNATURE | PARKINSON J |
| AFFILIATIONS | Victoria University of Wellington |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-3395-2732 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 20 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 9 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 20 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1931 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
English for Science and Technology
This article provides a brief introduction to English for Science and Technology (EST) as a language teaching approach. It looks briefly at factors to be considered in designing an EST course. These factors include how to analyze what language and literacy the EST students that are being taught need. A further consideration is the design of an EST course; the article stresses the importance of basing the teaching design on the content and genres …
Investigating the dynamics of English for Medical Purposes (EMP) textbook design and use in China
The use of the passive voice in science students’ writing
The passive voice has been discouraged by writing textbooks (Pullum, 2014), yet it remains a key register feature in academic science writing, and is highly frequent in research articles (Leong, 2014, 2020) and undergraduate science textbooks (Luo, 2018). Functionally the passive voice is considered as contributing to logical information structure of the text (Biber et al., 1999; Halliday, 1988) as well as to achieving an objective voice (Ding, 2…
Rhetorical features of high-graded and low-graded engineering case study responses
Constructing arguments in engineering student case studies
Critical review of literature: The case of the news and views genre
Using Talanoa to develop bilingual word lists of technical vocabulary in the trades
It is important for anyone entering a profession to learn their profession’s specialised language. This is also true of those learning trades such as automotive technology or plumbing. Knowledge of specialised language allows trades professionals to speak to other professionals and read technical material. Although this technical language is new to all students, learning it is harder for students learning in a second language. In this article we …
On the use of the address terms guys and mate in an educational context
Putting yourself into your work: Expression of visual meaning in student technical writing
Students in technical fields use visual as well as verbal modes to express their meaning, employing ways of expressing meaning that are useful later in their professional lives. This study investigates visual meaning in student Builders’ Diaries, journals that are written by carpentry trainees to provide a record of their learning. In professional carpentry practice, Diaries function as a record of building work and are used in planning, billing …
Development of noun phrase complexity in the writing of English for Academic Purposes students
Representing own and other voices in social science research articles
That complement clauses are a prominent feature of various registers including conversation and academic prose. In academic prose, that-clauses are of interest because they frame research findings, the writer’s central message to the reader. To achieve this persuasive purpose, that-clauses are employed to draw in various voices, including those of other researchers, research participants, research findings and the writer. This study extends prior…
Adopting academic values: Student use of that-complement clauses in academic writing
Language support for learning a second language: What can the Malaysian example offer South Africa
Like many postcolonial countries South Africa has, in most schools, in practice opted to use English for teaching and learning. Malaysia has similarly opted for the use of English in schools, although limiting this to the subjects of Mathematics and Science. In Malaysia, to achieve instruction in a second language, a wide range of supports is offered to teachers and learners whose proficiency in English may be limited. Such support includes mater…
Education, Language, and Identity Amongst Students at a South African University
This article reports on a study of language and cultural identity of mother-tongue Zulu students at an English-medium South African university. The data consist of focus group interviews, questionnaires, and student opinions in essays. Findings include a strong identification of the participants with the Zulu language and Zulu culture, and a view of English variously as a language of settlers that participants are forced to speak for instrumental…
Explicit teaching of grammar and improvement in the grammar of student writing
This article focuses on the question of whether formal teaching of grammatical constructions results in a change in ESL students. written use of these constructions. It also tests the assumption that given a large amount of comprehensible input in academic English, ESL students will automatically acquire this variety including its grammatical features. The writing produced by BSc first year L2 students enrolled in an ESL course forms the data of …
The effect of tertiary study at an English medium university on the written English of speakers of Black South African English
My very own mission impossible”: An appraisal analysis of student teacher reflections on a design and technology project
A post-structuralist perspective suggests that our social context will lead to lasting ways of viewing the world, which will be reflected in what we think, say, and write. This study aims to test whether gendered expectations of success in a technological task are reflected grammatically in reflections on the task. Eighty-seven teacher trainees built and electrically wired a doll house as a class assignment. Their written reflections on this expe…
Gender, self‐efficacy and achievement among South African Technology teacher trainees
This article considers the relationship between gender and self‐efficacy in teacher trainees engaged in an electricity‐related design and construction task. Quantitative data (examination scores, task assessment, and questionnaire) and qualitative data (interviews and written student reflections) were collected. There is a gender bias in student teachers entering the University with more male than female students having done Science to grade 12 l…
Science books for children as a preparation for textbook literacy
This article examines science books for children, a genre that has been neglected both in studies of science discourse and in studies of literature for children. It compares this genre to two other science genres, textbooks and popular science articles, and finds great similarities between science textbooks and science books for children, both in terms of register and cultural values. As a result of these similarities, it suggests that science bo…
The Dinosaur in East Africa: An Account of the Giant Reptile Beds of Tendaguru, Tanganyika Territory
Adopting academic values: Student use of that-complement clauses in academic writing
On the use of the address terms guys and mate in an educational context
Putting yourself into your work: Expression of visual meaning in student technical writing
Students in technical fields use visual as well as verbal modes to express their meaning, employing ways of expressing meaning that are useful later in their professional lives. This study investigates visual meaning in student Builders’ Diaries, journals that are written by carpentry trainees to provide a record of their learning. In professional carpentry practice, Diaries function as a record of building work and are used in planning, billing …
Representing own and other voices in social science research articles
That complement clauses are a prominent feature of various registers including conversation and academic prose. In academic prose, that-clauses are of interest because they frame research findings, the writer’s central message to the reader. To achieve this persuasive purpose, that-clauses are employed to draw in various voices, including those of other researchers, research participants, research findings and the writer. This study extends prior…
Education, Language, and Identity Amongst Students at a South African University
This article reports on a study of language and cultural identity of mother-tongue Zulu students at an English-medium South African university. The data consist of focus group interviews, questionnaires, and student opinions in essays. Findings include a strong identification of the participants with the Zulu language and Zulu culture, and a view of English variously as a language of settlers that participants are forced to speak for instrumental…
Gender, self‐efficacy and achievement among South African Technology teacher trainees
This article considers the relationship between gender and self‐efficacy in teacher trainees engaged in an electricity‐related design and construction task. Quantitative data (examination scores, task assessment, and questionnaire) and qualitative data (interviews and written student reflections) were collected. There is a gender bias in student teachers entering the University with more male than female students having done Science to grade 12 l…
The Dinosaur in East Africa: An Account of the Giant Reptile Beds of Tendaguru, Tanganyika Territory
Science books for children as a preparation for textbook literacy
This article examines science books for children, a genre that has been neglected both in studies of science discourse and in studies of literature for children. It compares this genre to two other science genres, textbooks and popular science articles, and finds great similarities between science textbooks and science books for children, both in terms of register and cultural values. As a result of these similarities, it suggests that science bo…
Gender, self‐efficacy and achievement among South African Technology teacher trainees
This article considers the relationship between gender and self‐efficacy in teacher trainees engaged in an electricity‐related design and construction task. Quantitative data (examination scores, task assessment, and questionnaire) and qualitative data (interviews and written student reflections) were collected. There is a gender bias in student teachers entering the University with more male than female students having done Science to grade 12 l…
My very own mission impossible”: An appraisal analysis of student teacher reflections on a design and technology project
A post-structuralist perspective suggests that our social context will lead to lasting ways of viewing the world, which will be reflected in what we think, say, and write. This study aims to test whether gendered expectations of success in a technological task are reflected grammatically in reflections on the task. Eighty-seven teacher trainees built and electrically wired a doll house as a class assignment. Their written reflections on this expe…
Explicit teaching of grammar and improvement in the grammar of student writing
This article focuses on the question of whether formal teaching of grammatical constructions results in a change in ESL students. written use of these constructions. It also tests the assumption that given a large amount of comprehensible input in academic English, ESL students will automatically acquire this variety including its grammatical features. The writing produced by BSc first year L2 students enrolled in an ESL course forms the data of …
The effect of tertiary study at an English medium university on the written English of speakers of Black South African English
Language support for learning a second language: What can the Malaysian example offer South Africa
Like many postcolonial countries South Africa has, in most schools, in practice opted to use English for teaching and learning. Malaysia has similarly opted for the use of English in schools, although limiting this to the subjects of Mathematics and Science. In Malaysia, to achieve instruction in a second language, a wide range of supports is offered to teachers and learners whose proficiency in English may be limited. Such support includes mater…
Education, Language, and Identity Amongst Students at a South African University
This article reports on a study of language and cultural identity of mother-tongue Zulu students at an English-medium South African university. The data consist of focus group interviews, questionnaires, and student opinions in essays. Findings include a strong identification of the participants with the Zulu language and Zulu culture, and a view of English variously as a language of settlers that participants are forced to speak for instrumental…
Representing own and other voices in social science research articles
That complement clauses are a prominent feature of various registers including conversation and academic prose. In academic prose, that-clauses are of interest because they frame research findings, the writer’s central message to the reader. To achieve this persuasive purpose, that-clauses are employed to draw in various voices, including those of other researchers, research participants, research findings and the writer. This study extends prior…
Adopting academic values: Student use of that-complement clauses in academic writing
Development of noun phrase complexity in the writing of English for Academic Purposes students
Putting yourself into your work: Expression of visual meaning in student technical writing
Students in technical fields use visual as well as verbal modes to express their meaning, employing ways of expressing meaning that are useful later in their professional lives. This study investigates visual meaning in student Builders’ Diaries, journals that are written by carpentry trainees to provide a record of their learning. In professional carpentry practice, Diaries function as a record of building work and are used in planning, billing …
Using Talanoa to develop bilingual word lists of technical vocabulary in the trades
It is important for anyone entering a profession to learn their profession’s specialised language. This is also true of those learning trades such as automotive technology or plumbing. Knowledge of specialised language allows trades professionals to speak to other professionals and read technical material. Although this technical language is new to all students, learning it is harder for students learning in a second language. In this article we …
On the use of the address terms guys and mate in an educational context
Critical review of literature: The case of the news and views genre
Constructing arguments in engineering student case studies
Rhetorical features of high-graded and low-graded engineering case study responses
Investigating the dynamics of English for Medical Purposes (EMP) textbook design and use in China
The use of the passive voice in science students’ writing
The passive voice has been discouraged by writing textbooks (Pullum, 2014), yet it remains a key register feature in academic science writing, and is highly frequent in research articles (Leong, 2014, 2020) and undergraduate science textbooks (Luo, 2018). Functionally the passive voice is considered as contributing to logical information structure of the text (Biber et al., 1999; Halliday, 1988) as well as to achieving an objective voice (Ding, 2…
English for Science and Technology
This article provides a brief introduction to English for Science and Technology (EST) as a language teaching approach. It looks briefly at factors to be considered in designing an EST course. These factors include how to analyze what language and literacy the EST students that are being taught need. A further consideration is the design of an EST course; the article stresses the importance of basing the teaching design on the content and genres …
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