Staff Members

Dr Roger Barnard

Role: Senior Lecturer Qualifications: B.Ed. Sussex, M.A. (Linguistics) Surrey, M.A. (Education) London, Ph.D. Southampton, DipTEFLA Email: rbarnard@waikato.ac.nz Location: J3.18a Contact: +64 7 838 4466 ext. 6691

Research Interests:

I have been at the University of Waikato since 1995. Before that, I was a high school teacher in England, and then worked in Europe and the Middle East in various capacities - as English Language Officer for the British Council, North Italy; Director of the British Council Language Centres in The Netherlands; English Language Adviser to the Ministries of Education in the Yemen Arab Republic and the Sultanate of Oman. Much of this work involved the professional development of language teachers and their inspectors, advisers and trainers, especially those from a bilingual background, and the design, production and implementation of language teaching and learning materials. For example, I was co-editor of the Our World Through English - a complete set of students' books, self-access books, teachers' books, audio and video materials for the nine year English curriculum in the Sultanate of Oman. I have also been involved in language testing since 1974 as Local Secretary for the University of Cambridge Local Examinations Syndicate, Chief Oral Examiner for First Certificate and Certificate of Proficiency examinations, Practical Assessor for the RSA/Cambridge DTEFLA, Moderator for Trinity College of London's Certificate in TESOL, and Examiner for IELTS (International English Language Testing Service).

At Waikato, I have taught a range of papers for the Post Graduate Diploma in Second Language Teaching and MA (Applied) in Applied Linguistics, notably APPL551, Linguistics for Language Teaching, APPL553 Social and Psychological Aspects of Language Teaching and Learning, APPL501 Research Methods in Applied Linguistics, APPL520. Second Language Curriculum and Classroom Issues, and APPL560 Language Policy and Planning. I have also designed and taught an undergraduate paper, LING204 Introduction to Applied Linguistics, and taught LING231, General Linguistics. I have also recently shared the design and teaching of two APPL580 Special Topic papers – Second Language Teacher Education, and Interaction in the Language Classroom.

I have served on various administrative committees for the University of Waikato, for example, the Academic Planning Group of the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, the Faculty's Research Committee, Promotions Committee, Human Research Ethics Committees, the Graduate Adviser's Committee, and the Programme Committee of the Certificate in Attainment in Foundation Studies. I have also been a member of the Foundation and Bridging Programmes Coordinating Committee, and the University’s Literacy Advisory Sub-Committee on Literacy Issues across the university, and the Working Party on Literacy Issues Related to Non-English Speaking Background Students.

In 2008, I served on the cross-university Vietnam Strategic Planning Group to promote the University's commitment to collaborate in the Vietnamese government's Agenda for the Renovation of Higher Education. The Vice Chancellor has nominated me to be the contact person with the Vietnamese Ministry of Education in connection with the above, and I am the Director (designate) of the proposed collaborative project with Vietnam National University / Hanoi University of Languages and International Studies to offer the MA (Applied) in Applied Linguistics by distance learning and face-to-face tuition in Hanoi from 2009.

Research Publications:

You may like to view publications from 1997 onwards for Dr Roger Barnard

Expertise:

Thesis supervision and examination
I am currently sharing the supervision of several doctoral students, for the majority of which I am the Chief Supervisor. Most of my doctoral students work within a sociocultural paradigm to examine the relationship between language teachers' knowledge and beliefs and their professional practice in various areas. Recently completed theses under my supervision include:

Hernandez, J.F. (2008). Locating Philippine Languages in the Austronesian Language Family: subgrouping and reconstruction of Proto-Philippine. Thesis for Doctor of Philosophy, University of Waikato.

Ogino, M. (2008). Modified output in response to clarification requests and second language learning. Thesis for Doctor of Philosophy, University of Waikato.

Over the past few years, I have acted as external examiner for PhD theses submitted to other universities. These include:

Kaviani, A.H. (2003) On receptivity: A descriptive-explanatory approach to the problem of learner openness in second language acquisition. Thesis for Doctor of Philosophy, Auckland University.

Melles, G. (2003) Negotiating Curriculum Work in English as a Second Language. Thesis for Doctor of Education. Deakin University.

Lin Lu (2003) Chinese Immigrant parents as home teachers: Maintaining and developing children’s heritage language in New Zealand. Thesis for Master of Education. Massey University.

Hacker, P. (2004) Language Teachers' personal theories: Understanding through reflection and listening. Thesis for Master of Arts, University of Auckland.

Le Pham Hoai Huong (2004) A sociocultural analysis of learning English in unassisted and assisted peer groups at university in Vietnam, Thesis for Doctor of Philosophy, Victoria University of Wellington.

Penny Haworth (2005) Developing praxis for a few non-English speaking students in the class, Thesis for Doctor of Philosophy, Massey University.

Mallan, Vijay (2005) Insights from revision strategies of four Malaysian native speakers of English in mainstream ESL classrooms. PhD thesis, University of Otago.

Shanjiang Yu (2005). Family factors in bilingual children's code-switching and language maintenance: A New Zealand case study. Thesis for Doctor of Philosophy, Auckland University of Technology.

Angela Chi Kuen Chan (2005) Openings and closings in business meetings in different cultures. Thesis for Doctor of Philosophy, Victoria University of Wellington.

Susan Zhao (2005). Incidental focus on form in teacher-learner interaction and learner-learner interaction. Thesis for Doctor of Philosophy, Auckland University of Technology.

Scholarship and research activities and interests
Current research interests include the conceptual, linguistic and cultural challenges faced by second language learners and their teachers, and in the design, implementation and evaluation of appropriate policies and practices to meet their needs, and those of the institutions concerned. My most recent research and publications are in the area of language teachers’ cognition and beliefs.

Between 2003 and 2005, I was engaged in a research project at Nagasaki Junshin Catholic University (NJCU), Japan, in which a reading tutorial programme devised in New Zealand was adapted to meet the needs of Japanese learners of English as a foreign language. For this project, I received funding from the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences in 2004 and 2005.

In 2006, I was a member of a research team funded by the Education New Zealand Trust for the development of e-learning resources in Vietnam, including the design and application of a dedicated learning management system (LMS), and a digital library.

In 2006, I received funding from NZAid for a curriculum development project to produce syllabus specifications for trainee English language teachers at the National University of East Timor (UNTL). Funding from the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences was granted to myself and two principal co-researchers to continue the project in 2007, and both funds are carried over into 2008 to take the project into a further stage of development. This project was facilitated by the research-funded visit to Waikato  in July 2008 of the Vice-Rector of UNTL, and follow-up visits by three of his staff members in September. Further funding is sought to continue the project into, and beyond, 2009.

In 2007, I was awarded an Academic Visitors’ Grant from the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences to facilitate the visit of Prof. M.E. Torres-Guzman of Teachers College Columbia University, New York. The main purpose of her visit was the continued collaboration in the volume of international case studies we are co-editing (now in press). I was also granted Faculty funding to support the 2008 visit to Waikato of Le Van Canh, of Hanoi University of Languages and International Studies to undertake joint research into language teacher beliefs; an article dealing with aspects of our research has been submitted for publication. In 2008, I was awarded funding from the Faculty to conduct a survey of New Zealand teachers’ attitudes to the teaching of grammar. The findings of this project will be reported during 2008 at a public lecture in Auckland, a conference presentation, and a journal article. I am also scheduled to present papers connected with my research and publications at international conferences in Hanoi and Singapore in late 2008.

Over the past few years, I have accepted invitations to be Visiting Professor/Fellow at University College Chichester, UK; Tsuda College, Tokyo; Teachers College Columbia University, New York; and Vietnam National University, Hanoi

Professional associations
IATEFL - International Association of Teachers of English as a Foreign Language
ALANZ - Applied Linguistics Association, New Zealand
LSNZ – The Linguistic Society of New Zealand
TESOL – Teachers of English to Speakers of Other languages
TESOLANZ - Teachers of English to Speakers of Other Languages, Aotearoa New Zealand.

I was the editor of The TESOLANZ Journal, 2000-2003, and co-editor of New Zealand Studies in Applied Linguistics 2003-2005, Reviews Editor for Pleiades: International Journal for Teaching English to Young Learners (2003-2007), an Associate Editor of Teachers Edition (2005-2008), and a member of the editorial committee for the ASIA TEFL Journal. All the above are refereed journals.

I also regularly review submissions to the following refereed journals: The Independent Learning Association, The International Journal of Educational Research, Language and Education, Linguistics and Education, Language Teaching and Research, New Zealand Journal of Educational Studies, The TESOLANZ Journal, The Waikato Journal of Education.