Nicky Riddiford
Senior ELI Teacher,
School of Linguistics and Applied Language Studies
Phone: 04 463 6471
Email: address
Street Address: Room 309, Von Zedlitz Building, Kelburn Pde, Kelburn Campus
Nearest Fax: 04 463 5604
MA (VUW), Dip Ed, Dip Tchg, LTCL (ESL)
Nicky is a Senior ELI teacher and is course coordinator and teacher of the Workplace Communication Programme for Skilled Migrants. She also teaches English for Academic Purposes on the English Proficiency Programme and TESOL Classroom Practice on the Graduate Certificate in TESOL course.
She is a member of the Language in the Workplace Project (LWP) research team and she is currently developing pragmatic training resources that draw on LWP research.
Nicky is involved with several community and professional organizations. As coordinator of the Skilled Migrant Programme she works closely with the Rotary Club of Wellington. She has a long association with the Wellington Association of Teachers of ESOL and the Wellington ESOL Home Tutor Service. She is a member of Refugee Services.
Her publications include Song Talk: Songs for English Language Learners, action research reports on error correction in writing and on tracking the development of L2 pragmatic competence, and papers on sociolinguistics. She is the primary researcher on a project currently being undertaken by the LWP team that looks at the development of communication skills in a group of skilled migrants. More details of Nicky’s publications and presentations are available here.
Nicky plays in a ukulele band: The Ukes of Hazzard