(For other current projects, please see our  joint projects)

Advisor to the Head of English, Sampoerna School of Education

Putera Sampoerna Foundation
Jakarta, Indonesia
July 2009-December 2009

The Sampoerna School of Education opened in October 2009, with its first intake of future teachers  of high school English and mathematics. Hilary is one of the international advisors working in the  English language programme.

To read about the Foundation's philanthropical work in education, click here.

English for Academic Purposes, Australian Partnership Scholarships

Australia Indonesia Language Foundation (IALF)
Jakarta, Indonesia
March-April 2007

The Australian Partnership Scholarships (APS) is an initiative from the Australia Indonesia Partnership for Reconstruction and Development (AIPRD) and is funded by the Australian Government for postgraduate study for Indonesian students in Australian universities.

APS pre-departure course - class 6W2.

The place of ESOL in the New Zealand curriculum

Ministry of Education
Aotearoa New Zealand
2005-2006

This review with Dr Margaret Franken from Waikato University was commissioned as a discussion paper by the Ministry of Education as part of the New Zealand Curriculum/Marautanga Project.

To read a copy of the review, click here.

To read other ESOL reports as part of the project, click here.

Engaging Asian communities in New Zealand

Asia:NZ Foundation, International Student Ministries (ISM) NZ
Aotearoa New Zealand
2004-2005

This project was a follow-up to the Seriously Asia Project from the Asia:NZ Foundation. The research was led by Terry McGrath, who is both the National Director of ISM NZ and Chaplain for international students at Massey University. Hilary was a principal member of the research team along with Dr John Pickering and Dr Andrew Butcher.
   Using focus groups and interviews, they explored engagement with Asian communities in New Zealand: both migrant and refugee communities, and particularly in Auckland, Palmerston North, Wellington and Christchurch. 
   The research was designed to help New Zealanders understand the experiences of engagement with Asian communities in New Zealand, and to improve policy.

For a copy of the executive summary, click here, or for the literature review, click here, or for the full report, click here.

For a copy of the executive summary in English, Korean or Chinese, click here.

For more information about the Seriously Asia Project, click here.

For more information about ISM NZ, click here.

Hilary and Lao focus group, Wat Lao Sibounheung Photharam, Wellington (2005).

Attitudes of teacher educators towards bilingualism and language diversity in Aotearoa New Zealand
 
Victoria University
Wellington, Aotearoa New Zealand
1998-2004

This was a doctoral study of attitudes towards language of academic staff who prepare primary and secondary teachers across the curriculum in the (then) 21 teacher education institutions in Aotearoa New Zealand. 
   The thesis incorporated a comparison of attitudes towards six ethnolinguistic groups: Māori; French; Sāmoan; Korean; Russian and Somali. Hilary found that attitudes were more likely to be positive for Māori and, in some instances French, than the other groups. This highlights the importance of including ethnolinguistic vitality in the model of language attitudes that Hilary developed and tested. 
   Her research identified a need for theory and policy development for language in education, in order to meet the needs of all children.

 

College English (Level 1)

Centre for British Teachers (CfBT)
Darussalem, Brunei
2002

Hilary was part of a team of New Zealand writers wrote the units for Level 1 of College English, an internet-based course of English for speakers of other languages (ESOL). The course was launched in 2004, and is aimed at pre-tertiary students who wish to carry out English-medium tertiary studies. The course has an international focus is based around a 'virtual college' with a group of virtual classmates.

For more information on College English, click here.

 

LTCL Dip TESOL (Trinity College, London)

International Pacific College
Palmerston North
2002

Hilary wrote three modules of the TESOL diploma distance course accredited for the Licentiate Diploma in the Teaching of English to Speakers of Other Languages (LTCL Diploma TESOL) from Trinity College, London: Language acquisition, Methodology, Language teaching and the learning context.

For more information on Trinity TESOL at International Pacific College, click here.