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Department of Linguistics

Lynda Yates

selected publications

Yates, L. (2010) Pragmatic challenges for language learners. Handbook of Pragmatics (pp. 287-308), Mouton.

Yates, L. (2010) Language training and settlement success, Sydney: AMEP Research Centre, Macquarie University.

Yates, L., & Springall, J. (2010) Soften up!: Successful requests in the workplace. In D. Tatsuki & N. Houck (Eds.), Pragmatics from research to practice: Teaching speech acts (pp. 67-86) Alexandria, VA: TESOL.

Yates, L.  (2010) Speech act performance in workplace settings. In Martinez-Flor, A. and Usó-Juan, E. (Eds.), Speech act performance: Theoretical, empirical and methodological issues (pp.109-126).  John Benjamins: Amsterdam.

Yates, L. (2010). Dinkas downunder: Dinkas downunder: Request performance in simulated workplace interaction. In G. Kasper, Nguyen, H.t., Yoshimi, D. R. & Yoshika, J. K. (Eds.), Pragmatics and language learning, volume 12 (pp. 113-140), University of Hawai‘i: National Foreign Language Resource Center.

Yates, L., de Courcy, M. and Nicholas, H. (2010) Social and cognitive influences on the English language development of three age groups of Iraqi refugees. In Batstone, (Ed.), Social and cognitive approaches to second language acquisition (pp. 94-111), Oxford: OUP.

Yates, L. & Zielinski, B. (2009). Give it a go: Teaching pronunciation to adults. AMEP Research Centre: Sydney.

Yates, L. (2008). Extending teacher repertoires: Professional development and research in TESOL. North Ryde, N.S.W.: NCELTR.

Yates, L. (2008). Coping with continuous enrolment in adult ESL. TESOL in Context. Sydney: Australian Council for TESOL Associations.

Yates, L. (2008). Continuous Enrolment: Heresies, Headaches and Heartaches, English Language Teaching. 1 (2). Toronto: Canadian Center of Science Education.

Yates, L. (2008). The not-so generic skills: Teaching employability communication skills to adult migrants. Sydney: NCELTR.(With sample materials by Terry Griffin and Jenny Guilfoyle).

Yates, L. and Springall, J. (2008). Assessing intelligibility. Sydney: AMEP Research Centre.
Wigglesworth, G. & Yates, L. (2007). Mitigating difficult requests in the workplace: what learners and teachers need to know. TESOL Quarterly, 41(4), 791-803.

Yates, L. (2005). Negotiating an institutional identity: Individual differences in NS and NNS teacher directives. In Bardovi-Harlig, K. and Hartford, S., (Eds.) Interlanguage Pragmatics: Exploring Institutional Talk. Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum.

Yates, L. & Wigglesworth, G. (2005). Researching the effectiveness of professional development in pragmatics. In N. Bartels. (Ed.), Applied linguistics and language teacher education. Amsterdam: Kluwer.

Yates, L. (2005). Introducing new researchers to qualitative research: Some current textbook options. Modern Language Journal.

Yates, L. (2004). The ‘secret rules of language’: Tackling pragmatics in the classroom. Prospect: Journal of Australian TESOL, 19(1), 3-21

Invited conference presentations

Yates, L. (2008). ‘Teaching employability skills’. Plenary followed by workshop. Sustaining our champions: 2008 Professional development conference for TAFE Queensland language, literacy and numeracy teachers, Brisbane, Australia.

Yates, L. (2005). ‘Interpersonal pragmatics and language learning’. Chair invited colloquium. Applied Linguistics Association of Australia Annual Conference, Melbourne, Australia.

Yates, L. (2003). ‘Speaking with intent: Pragmatics in the AMEP’. Featured speaker plenary, 2003 AMEP National Conference, Gold Coast, Australia.

 

 

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