Cynthia White

Cynthia Joan White (born 1956) is a New Zealand applied linguistics academic.

Academic career

After an undergraduate at Victoria University of Wellington, White earned her PhD entitled 'Metacognitive, cognitive, social and affective strategy use in foreign language learning: a comparative study' from Massey University, while working there. She is also an adjunct faculty member at the University of New England in Australia.

Selected publications White, Cynthia. Language learning in distance education. Ernst Klett Sprachen, 2003. White, Cynthia. "Expectations and emergent beliefs of self-instructed language learners." System 27, no. 4 (1999): 443–457. White, Cynthia. "Autonomy and strategy use in distance foreign language learning: Research findings." System 23, no. 2 (1995): 207–221. White, Cynthia. "Distance learning of foreign languages." Language Teaching 39, no. 4 (2006): 247–264.