Jeffery Pittam

List of John Benjamins publications for which Jeffery Pittam plays a role.

Articles

Bordia, Sarbari, Lynn Wales, Cindy Gallois and Jeffery Pittam 2008 Antecedents and consequences of TESOL student expectationsAustralian Review of Applied Linguistics 31:2, pp. 15.1–15.18 | Article
Affective variables can help understand differences in student performance. This paper presents student expectations as an affective variable that has so far received little research attention. Students have expectations from educational providers, the fulfilment of which can create a positive… read more
Bordia, Sarbari, Lynn Wales, Jeffery Pittam and Cindy Gallois 2006 Student expectations of TESOL programs: Student and teacher perspectivesAustralian Review of Applied Linguistics 29:1, pp. 4.1–4.21 | Article
Most practitioners teaching English to speakers of other languages (TESOL) will agree that students come with some expectations about course content and teaching methodology and that these expectations play a vital role in student motivation and learning. However, the study of student expectations… read more
This paper presents data from a longitudinal study of Vietnamese refugee families acquiring Australian-English. Specifically, the paper is concerned with Vietnamese acquiring proficiency with vowels. It documents the progress made by four members of a Vietnamese family across their first year in… read more