Departments Arts and Language Education (Senior Lecturer)
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Nicola Daly B.A. (Massey), B. A. (Hons) (Victoria), PhD (La Trobe)

Nicola Daly is a Senior Lecturer in the Department of Arts and Language Education. She is involved in teaching at both undergraduate and postgraduate levels in areas concerning additional language learning (see paper descriptions for TEAL 221, TEAL 147 and TEAL 719),  and linguistic and cultural diversity (TEPC 224). 

Her research interests include:

Language Teacher Education

Language Use in Children's Literature

Nicola has a multidisciplinary background. In 1987 she completed a Bachelor of Arts at Massey University, majoring in Japanese. In 1989 she completed an honours degree majoring in Linguistics at Victoria University. After this she worked for three years as a Research Assistant at La Trobe University in Melbourne with Dr. John Bench, Dr. Janet Doyle and Dr. Chris Lind. As part of this team she helped to produce and standardise a speechreading (lipreading) test (see publications). During this time she began a course of her own research looking at gender differences in speechreadaibilty (see publications). This formed the topic of her PhD dissertation which was funded by an Australian Commonwealth Scholarship. She graduated in 1998.

After returning to New Zealand, Nicola won a postdoctoral fellowship at Victoria University of Wellington where she worked with Dr. Paul Warren examining intonation patterns in New Zealand English (see publications). Nicola has continued her association with Victoria University working as a Research Associate with the Language in the Workplace project headed by Professor Janet Holmes. In particular, in 2002 she was part of a team looking at the use of expletives in a workplace situation (see publications).

Nicola is currently involved in two research projects. The first examines the use of te reo Mäori vocabulary items in New Zealand English children's picture books.The second examines the education of additional language teachers for New Zealand primary school settings. Both projects relate to her strong interest in language variation and change, and cross cultural communication, particularly in the New Zealand setting. 

 Nicola is also a civil celebrant and recently completed a book entitled 'Sasha's Legacy: A Guide to Funerals for Babies' (Steele Roberts, Wellington). www.steeleroberts.co.nz