Kristina Love

List of John Benjamins publications for which Kristina Love plays a role.

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Subjects Applied linguistics | Language acquisition | Language teaching
In a highly mobile and globalized educational market, Australian secondary schools attract increasing numbers of international students, the majority of whom are from China (Australian Education International, 2007). Most of these Chinese international students undertake two years of senior… read more
Love, Kristina 2005 Introduction: Language and social life: Functional perspectivesLanguage and Social Life: Functional perspectives, Love, Kristina (ed.), pp. 1–8 | Introduction
This paper draws on Bernstein’s (1996) notion of framing to examine the variables which control the communication made possible in online discussion in one school context, and the particular forms of pedagogic consciousness (Bernstein, 1996) that are produced as students and teachers negotiate… read more
In this paper we examine the academic and language learning needs of Chinese international students preparing for high stakes examinations in an independent secondary school in Melbourne, Australia. We argue that the needs of these secondary students and their teachers are different from those of… read more
Whole Class Text Response Discussions (WCTRD) are pervasive in secondary English and represent one site in which students can learn to adopt the habits of critical thought that are promoted in state and national Curriculum documents. In this study, the phasal structures (Gregory and Malcolm 1981)… read more
Baker and Freebody (1989) argued that the teaching of reading was the teaching of culture, and in learning the culture of schooling, children were learning how to respond to the authority of the teacher and the school texts. Their interest in analysing the talk around text which occurred in… read more
Döpke, Susanne, Anne Brown, Anthony J. Liddicoat and Kristina Love 1994 Closings in talkback radio: Institutional effects on conversational routinesSpoken Interaction Studies in Australia, Gardner, Rod (ed.), pp. 21–46 | Article
This paper explores the effects of institutional communication on highly regular casual conversation routines. The institutional environment chosen is radio telephone conversation or talkback radio. Systematic variations from mundane telephone conversations were found in the closing sections and… read more
Current systems for analyzing classroom talk require some refinement in order that they may be applied for professional development purposes. Sinclair and Coulthard’s (1975) system is particularly useful as a potential tool for diagnostic purposes, but requires further development at the level of… read more