Cynthia White
# 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.
* White, Cynthia. The Emergence of Christianity: Classical Traditions in Contemporary Perspective, Fortress Press, 2010, XVI, 220 p. OCLC 1056616571
