Education

Lloyd Holliday holds an Honours Degree in English Literature, a Teachers’ Diploma, a Masters Degree with distinction in Teaching English as a mother tongue, and a PhD awarded for research in second language acquisition. He has worked as an educator in South Africa, Saudi-Arabia, USA, Australia, South-East Asia and China. His wide ranging learning, work, and research experiences enable him to teach and supervise higher degree students across a wide variety of applied linguistics fields.

Lloyd has been responsible for coordinating the Master Degree Program in applied linguistics and the offshore programs in the School of Educational Studies since 1996.

Lloyd has an especial interest in interaction in learning contexts and its affect on second language acquisition processes, computer mediated communication and learning, second and foreign language instruction and first language maintenance in mainstream and ethnic minority situations. He has taught courses in research methodology, second language acquisition theory, contextualizing language teaching, second/foreign language instruction, practical observations and language practice teaching, English grammar for teaching, bilingualism, and sociolinguistics.

Previous research has concentrated on the negotiation of meaning and the processes it generates which contribute to second language acquisition, using email lists for EFL/ESL practice, the nature of the discourse in the email messages of second language learners of English, the medium of instruction and mother tongue maintenance of ethnic minority students in Yunnan.

PhD and EdD Theses:

• The Effectiveness of communicative language Teaching Methodology for Low proficiency Learners in an EFL Setting.
• The Literacy-Related Demands Involved in the Transition from Primary to Secondary School.
• Interactive Learning Strategies of Chinese Second Language Students
• A Phenomenology of writing to learn mathematics.
• Learning by Listening and Note-Taking? International Students and Academic Lectures
• "Mum, Could you do me a favour?" A Longitudinal Study of a Child's Acquisition of Requests in English as a Second Language.
• Teaching Irish as a Second Language: Outcomes form All-Irish Secondary Schools compared with schools where Irish is taught as a single subject.
• Perceptions of the Place of Expatriate English Language Teachers in China.
• A Survey of Language Learning Strategies in Tertiary EFL in Indonesia.
• Written Content and Form Feedback in a Multi-draft Approach to EFL Writing in a Tertiary Institution: A case study of an English Department in Indonesia.
• The Influences of Vocabulary Size on Vocabulary Learning and Vocabulary Guessing Strategies of Thai University Students Studying English as a Foreign Language.
• Negotiation of Meaning in EFL Dyads in Indonesia: The Roles of Gender, Proficiency and Learning Styles.
• Reading Comprehension Strategies of Indonesian EFL Learners.
• EFL Computer Assisted Language instruction in Indonesian Tertiary Institution.
• Ways of Citing, Ways of Knowing: A Study of Citation Behaviour in Chinese Students’ Thesis Writing.
• Maximizing the Use of Language Learning Strategies in Self-Access Centres
• Input and Interaction Training in Pre-Service EFL Teacher Training in Vietnam
• The Adaptation of Language Testing Models to national Testing of School Graduates in Nepal: Processes, Problems and Emerging Issues.
• Attitude and Motivation and English Learning of Ethnic Minority Students in China.
• Trilingualism of Members from Ethnic Minority Groups in Yunnan China.

Masters Major Thesis:

• Fact to Fiction - Using Communication data from Multicultural Work Teams in Making a Fictional Video
• An Investigation of the Listening Strategies of Vietnamese EFL Students
• Requests by Australian Native Speakers of English and Vietnamese Learners of English. A cross-communication study in Pragmalinguistics.
• The Role of Awareness in Adult Naturalistic Language Acquisition.

Minor Theses:

• An analysis of the role of computers, students and teachers in the contemporary CALL classroom.
• A Validation Study of the Multidimensional Model.
• Contextualizing Communicative Language Teaching for Adult Javanese Learners of English as a Foreign Language.
• First Language Transfer and Vietnamese Learners’ Oral Competence in English Past Tense Marking: A Case Study.
• A Study of Foreign Language Classroom Anxiety in an Intensive English Program Context.
• Bilingualism and Bilingual Education: Toward the Development of a Bilingual/Immersion Program for Secondary Schools for Hanoi, Vietnam.
• The Implementation of the EFL syllabus of the 1994 Curriculum for Senior High Schools in Indonesia
• The Implementation of the EFL syllabus of the 1994 Curriculum for Senior High Schools in Indonesia
• An Analysis of Errors in English Article Usage by Indonesian Learners
• The use of the present perfect tense by Vietnamese learners of English.
• The Meaning of Animal Constitutes Words in English Animal Idioms: A Reflection of Culture.
• The Learning Style Preferences of Vietnamese Students of English as a Foreign Language
• The use of the Copula in Spoken EFL by Indonesian L1 Speakers.
• Negotiation of Meaning and Output Modification in the ESL Classroom
• Metacognitive Knowledge and Strategy Use in Chinese EFL Listening: A Comparison between Effective and Ineffective Listeners.
• An Investigation into Wa-Chinese bilingual education in CangYuan Wa Autonomous County.
• A Comparison of L1 and L2 Reading among Chinese EFL Readers: An Investigation of Reading Strategies.
• An Investigation of Bai EFL Students’ Language Learning Strategies.
• Acquisition of Bai EFL Students' Language Learning Strategies.
• Language Learning Strategies used in Writing Skill by Vietnamese Tertiary Students.
• The Language learning expectations of Chinese Students in an ESL pre-academic bridging program.
• A case study of code-switching and L1/L2 language use by French/English bilinguals.
• Mother-Tongue Education, Self Esteem and Language Maintenance of the Bulang Ethnic Minority Group in Yunnan Province.
• Naxi People's Attitudes Towards Their Ethnic Identity and Their Ethic Language.
• An Investigation into Rural Hui Students' English Language Learning Situation and Beliefs in a Hui Community in Southwest Yunnan Province.
• A Comparison of Yi Ethnic Minority Bilingual and Monolingual Education in Yunnan, China.
• The Differences in the Strategies used by Ethnic Minority Students and Han Students in EFL Listening Comprehension and the Effects of Listening Strategy Instructions.
• Language Attitude, Language Contact & Language Use: A Comparative Study of the Zhuang Language Maintenance in Two Zhuang Villages in Wensham Zhuang & Miao Autonomous Prefecture.
• An Investigation into Problems of the Hani Language Maintenance (Budu Branch) in Puer County.
• Bai People's Attitudes, Language Use and the Maintenance of Bai Language.
• Strategy Uses of Yi EFL Middle School Students.

Holliday, L. (1998). "The Grammar of Second Language Learners of English EMAIL Messages." In Nerbonne, John. (Ed.). Language Teaching and Language Technology, Lisse, Netherlands: Swets & Zeitlinger, pp. 136-145.

Holliday, L. (1999). "Chapter 12: Theory and Research: Input, Interaction and CALL." In Egbert, Joy & Hanson-Smith, Elizabeth. (Eds). CALL Environments. Research, Practice, and critical Issues. Arlington, VA, TESOL, PP. 181-188.

Holliday, L. (2001). Thesis and Research Writing in English by Indonesian Higher Degree students studying Overseas. TEFLIN Journal Xii (1), 132-141.

Holliday, L. (2002), October. Is theory a waste? EL Gazette, No. 273: 10.

Holliday, L. (2003), February. Think about what you're doing. EL Gazette, No. 277: 12.

Leder, G, & Holliday, L. (2006). Chapter 25: Research skills and writing a thesis. In Evans, T., & Denholm, C. (Eds). Doctorates Downunder. Melbourne: ACER.

Holliday, L. 2002. Systematic Differences in Joint Collaborative Degree Programs Leading to Academic Enhancement and Excellence in both participating Institutions. Eighth AUAP Conference: Implementing University partnership, Bali, 14-17 May 2002.

Holliday, L. 2003. Survey of Ethnic Minority Middle School Students' proficiency in their L1 Ethnic Minority Mother Tongue, Chinese L2 and English L3 in Yunnan Province, PRC China. Conference on Language Development, Language Revitalization and Multilingual Education in Asia, Institute of Language and Culture for Rural Development, Mahidol University and SIL, Bangkok, Thailand, October 2003.

Holliday, L. 2003. Survey Of Ethnic Minority Middle School Students' proficiency in their L1, Chinese L2 and English L3 in Yunnan Province, PRC China. Language Education and Diversity Conference, Waikato University, Hamilton, New Zealand, November 2003.

Holliday, L. 2005a. Research Methods in Applied Linguistics for Education and Social Sciences. Guest Lecture as Visiting Scholar, Faculty of Education, Chiang Mai University, Monday, 29 August, 2005.

Holliday, L 2005b. Research Methods in Applied Linguistics: Qualitative Data Collection Instruments. Guest Lecture as Visiting Scholar, Faculty of Liberal Arts, Maejo University, Wednesday, 9 September, 2005.

Robb, Thomas, & Holliday, L. 2005c. The Effects of the Medium on the Qualify of Message Exchange. International Conference of the Pacific Association for Computer Assisted Language Learning, Yunnan University, Kunming, China, 1-3 December, 2005.