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Publications

Publications
  • Cunningham, U. (2020). Growing up with two languages. A practical guide for the bilingual family. (4th ed) London: Routledge.

  • Davis N., Harris L. & Cunningham U. (2019) Professional ecologies shaping technology adoption in early childhood education with multilingual children. British Journal of Educational Technology 50(3): 1320-1339. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/bjet.12774

  • Harris L., Davis N., Cunningham U., de Vocht L., Macfarlane S., Gregory N., Aukuso S., Ova Taleni T. & Dobson J. (2018) Exploring the opportunities and challenges of the digital world for early childhood services with vulnerable children. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health 15(11). http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijerph15112407

  • Harris L., Cunningham U. and Davis N. (2018) Languages seen are languages used: The linguistic landscapes of early childhood centres. Early Education 64, 24-28.

  • King, J. & Cunningham, U. (2017). Tamariki and fanau: child speakers of Māori and Samoan in Aotearoa/New Zealand. Te Reo, 60, 29-46

  • Aukuso, S. (2017). Logomalie le faasoa taugagana i le moa o le taulaga. Ola Pulletini A’oga, http://www.ola888.com

  • King, J.,& Cunningham, U. (2016). Intergenerational transmission of minority languages in New Zealand: Methodological issues. In S. Grucza, M. Olpinska-Szkietko & P. Romanowski (Eds.), Advances in understanding multilingualism: A global perspective. (pp.61-77). Frankfurt: Peter Lang Verlag.

  • Harris, L. (2016). An ethnographic case study of the linguistic landscape of an award-winning Māori immersion early childhood centre (Unpublished master’s thesis). University of Canterbury, Christchurch, New Zealand.  ​

 

Guidance
Presentations
  • Davis, N. E., & de Vocht, L. (2017). Computational thinking in early childhood? No thank you, not until children are at least in Year 2. Unpublished response to Ministry of Education consultation on the draft ‘Digital technologies/Hangarau matihiko’ curriculum document, e-Learning Lab, University of Canterbury, Christchurch, New Zealand. 

 

 

 

  • Carson, S., Davis, N., Green, S., Slack, K. & Timu, C. (2020). Digital exclusion, in Speak Up - Korerotia radio podcast series of Plains FM. December 2020.

 

  • Davis N. (2019). Internet-related addictions and child development. With support from Olatz Fernandez-Lopez, Leona Harris and Miriam MaCabe. Christchurch: Child Well-Being Research Symposium, 6-7 Jun 2019.

  • Davis N., & Harris L. (2019). The co-evolution of technology & education in the linguistic landscapes of early childhood education in Aotearoa New Zealand. Christchurch: Child Well-Being Research Symposium, 6-7 Jun 2019.

  • Davis N., & Harris L. (2019). The digital world and early childhood education. An opportunity for a better start for bilingualism in Aotearoa New Zealand.  Christchurch, New Zealand: Early Years Professional Learning Hui Kidsfirst Kindergartens, Apr 2019.

  • Harris L. (2018). Supporting the language development of linguistically diverse young children. Christchurch, New Zealand: Early Years Professional Learning Hui Kidsfirst Kindergartens, 18 Apr 2018.

 

  • Cunningham, U. & King, J. (2016). Myth-busting in the face of rumours, misinformation and propaganda: Empowering parents and carers with research-informed information on raising children bilingually in New Zealand. Paper presented in a panel convened by Louisa Willoughby: Boundary crossing: Reimagining heritage language education for the 21st century at the Applied Linguistics Association of Australia (ALAA) annual conference, Monash University, Melbourne, 5-7 December 2016.​

  • King, J. & Cunningham, U. (2016). Parent workshops: Supporting language communities. Paper presented at the Second UC Intergenerational Transmission of Minority Languages Symposium: Community Matters, University of Canterbury, Christchurch, 12 December 2016.

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