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- ItemTeaching Competency in the Digital Era in Indonesia, Malaysia and the Philippines(e-International Publishing House, Ltd., UK, 2022-11-30) Chong KM; Ating R; Separa L; Widyatama A; Palmares-Cruz MRM; Buluran MJThis study investigated the challenges of teaching in the digital environment and identified digital competency among lecturers in higher learning institutions in the digital era. The survey was carried out from April to September 2022 with 155 valid responses among 200 lecturers, 77.5% response rate from private and public higher learning institutions from Indonesia, Malaysia, and the Philippines. PLS-SEM was used to analyse the survey results and hypothesis testing was conducted through bootstrapping. Among the seven hypotheses proposed, six were accepted and one was rejected, which was the development of digital learning resources towards competency teaching in the digital era.
- ItemWillingness to use Public Transport in Kuala Lumpur & Manila(e-International Publishing House, Ltd., UK., 2022-09-22) Chong KM; Subramaniam G; Ating R; Separa LTraffic congestion is a common phenomenon in all capital cities. This study aims to examine the willingness of Malaysians and Filipinos to use public transport and the factors that influence their willingness to use public transport in Kuala Lumpur and Manila. A self-administered questionnaire was distributed to 250 respondents using purposive sampling technique. PLS-SEM analysis shows that efficiency is essential for Malaysians while Filipino transport users pay more importance to reliability. It is crucial that a holistic perspective heeding in environmental, social and governance (ESG) in transportation can assist the government conserve the environment in line with SDG 11.
- ItemLive Music Recovery: Reflections on the Aotearoa ExperienceCarter D; Hoad C
- ItemTranscribing Tonkinson's Southeast Ambrym recordings: first impressions and community experiencesRidge E; Donald E; Wase SThis paper will discuss our experiences of transcribing audio recordings made by anthropologist Bob Tonkinson (1967) in Southeast Ambrym and Mele Maat between 1966 and 2002, archived with the Vanuatu Cultural Centre and Paradisec. The 75 hours of recordings include musical performances, custom celebrations, church services, community meetings, and interviews, in Vatlongos (aka. Southeast Ambrym), Bislama and occasional English, as well as Tonkinson’s anthropological observations. As part of a wider project looking at young people’s language use and attitudes, we have worked with young speakers of Vatlongos (aged 18-30) to transcribe these archival recordings, in order to make the archived materials more available to the wider community, and investigate longitudinal language change. While language use in the past is often held up as a standard that the young people of today are falling short of, it is hoped that this experience will instead position young community members as experts on historical language use, demystifying language change in Vatlongos and Vatlongos-speaking communities. This is also an opportunity for training and practice in using written Vatlongos, identified as a priority for community language goals, especially to support Vatlongos-medium education in early school years, and increased use of the Vatlongos Bible translation. Responding to Himmelmann’s (2018) call for closer attention to be paid to transcription in language documentation, this paper will discuss the rationale, methods and logistics for conducting a large transcription project across multiple locations, remotely and with inexperienced transcribers, including ethical considerations and support systems. We will focus on experiences of running transcriber training sessions, transcribers’ experiences of engaging with recordings of their ancestors, and our first impressions of possible evidence of language change and changing language use in Vatlongos-speaking communities.
- ItemThe sixth vowel in Vatlongos (Southeast Ambrym)Ridge EIn addition to the five vowels most typically found in Oceanic languages, Vatlongos has a sixth vowel phoneme, a near-low front vowel /æ/ (Parker 1968). There are a few minimal pairs distinguishing it from /a/ and /e/, such as mai ‘reef’ or ‘pigeon’; mei ‘come’; mæi ‘3SG.NFUT.let’ or ‘hunger’. However, it is lexically and phonologically restricted compared to other vowels. /æ/ usually occurs following a bilabial consonant, or preceding /h/, although there are exceptions. In some lexical and phonological contexts, /æ/ is in free variation with either /a/ or /e/. In a lexical database of over 3000 lexemes (excluding Bislama loanwords and proper nouns), /æ/ occurs in just 107 words. However, /æ/ is likely underrepresented due to tendencies to represent this sound with or . The orthographic representation of this vowel is an area of continuing discussion. This paper will report results from a project to investigate the acoustic properties of the /æ/ phoneme. Around 1500 vowel tokens in two narrative recordings by the same female speaker were aligned in Praat textgrids, and the midpoint F1 and F2 extracted using the PraatR package (Albin 2014) in RStudio. While data checking is still in progress, initial results show acoustic properties consistent with /æ/ as a low front vowel phoneme, overlapping with tokens of /e/ and /a/. As most tokens follow the prenasalised bilabial stop, we will also discuss the distribution of nasalised allophones. We have found patterns of intraspeaker lexical variation between /æ/, /e/ and /a/, including in phonological contexts where /æ/ is not predicted by Parker’s (1968) description. The phoneme /a/ in Bislama loanwords appears to be realised slightly differently, intermediate between Vatlongos /a/ and /æ/, suggesting that vowels in Bislama loanwords are not fully phonologically integrated.
- ItemMAKING TRANSPORT INCLUSIVE: Immigrant Communities Everyday Experience of Public Transport in Auckland(2023-10-24) Muhammad, Imran
- ItemAttitudes towards Inclusion of Sustainability Characteristics within New Zealand’s Eating and Activity Guidelines by Professionals in the Agriculture, Environment and Health Sectors(MDPI, 2019-03-13) Jones R; Burlingame B; Wham C; Brown, R; Mackay, S; Eyles, HBackground: Globally, adverse health and environmental changes are occurring associated with changes in the food and nutrition system. The FAO has called for sustainable diets which are “protective of biodiversity and ecosystems, culturally acceptable, accessible, affordable, nutritionally adequate, safe and healthy; while optimising natural and human resources”. The inclusion of sustainability characteristics in New Zealand’s Eating and Activity Guidelines (EAGs) has become compelling. This study aimed to evaluate the agreement for inclusion of sustainability characteristics within the guidelines among sectoral professionals. Methods: Agriculture, environment and health sector professionals were invited to complete an online survey to establish agreement to sustainability characteristics using a 20 item Likert scale. Participant gender, age and education level were determined. Results: Overall, 298 (65% female) respondents completed the survey (37%, 22% and 41% from the agriculture, environment and health sectors respectively). Two thirds (66%) of respondents were over 35 years and 90% had a tertiary education. Most (76%) respondents disagreed New Zealand’s current food system is sustainable; health (77%), environment (78%) sectors had greater disagreement than agriculture (35%) (p ≤ 0.001). 73% of respondents agreed that sustainability characteristics should be included in the guidelines; health (90%) and environment (84%) sectors agreed more than agriculture (48.2%) (p ≤ 0.001). Most respondents tended to agree with the inclusion of the 15 individual sustainability characteristics in the guidelines except “Purchase and support for organic food produce” was low (35%). Agreement for nine sustainability characteristics was higher among the health and environment sectors versus the agricultural sector (p < 0.05) whereas sector agreement for “diet diversity”, “recommended serves of dairy products”, “sustainable seafood consumption”, “reduction of food waste” and “sustainable lifestyle behaviours” was unanimous (p > 0.05). Conclusion: Professionals from the agriculture, environment and health sectors largely support the inclusion of sustainability characteristics in the New Zealand’s EAGs.
- ItemWork-Integrated Learning New Zealand 2023 Refereed Conference Proceedings(2023-05-02) Hay, K; Zegwaard, K; Lucas, P; Hay, K; Fleming, J
- ItemPutting whanaungatanga at the heart of students’ online learning experiences.(ASCILITE, 2022-11-18) Brown, C; Hartnett, M; Rātima, M; Forbes, D; Datt, A; Gedera, D; Wilson, S; Arthars, N; Wardak, D; Yeoman, P; Kalman, E; Liu, DYTThis paper explores the role of relationships in students’ experiences of online learning during the COVID-19 pandemic in Aotearoa| New Zealand. Students’ voices are foregrounded through narratives and the analysis of four discrete stories of these specific circumstances. Using a conceptual framing of whanaungatanga, a Māori view of the process of establishing and maintaining relationships, we move beyond who is involved in the relationship to explore how relationships are developed and what counts from the students’ perspectives. Sharing, an ethic of care, a sense of belonging, collaboration, scaffolding of learning, and feedback acknowledging students’ efforts were all considered important aspects of relationships between students and faculty which were enacted online. The importance of broader institutional relationships, such as those with the library and student support services, were also foregrounded.
- ItemAuthoritarian Neoliberal Statecraft and the Political Economy of Mis/Disinformation: Resituating Western-Centric Debates in a Vietnamese Context(Center for Information, Technology, and Public Life at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill., 2023-01-24) Yến-Khanh, N; Phelan, SAcademic and popular discussions of misinformation, disinformation, and “fake news” have prioritized the concerns of Western liberal democracies. In the rather different context of Vietnam, we highlight how the interplay of authoritarian state logics, corporate interests, weak journalism, and repressed civil society culture explains the way mis/disinformation manifests in Vietnamese news media. We argue that the ongoing need to de-Westernize media and communication studies must be part of any satisfactory answer to the question of “what comes after disinformation studies.”
