ACLA2 - Publications
ACLA2 publications
- Wigglesworth, G., J. Simpson and D. Loakes (2011) “NAPLAN language assessments for Indigenous children in remote communities: issues and problems” Australian Review of Applied Linguistics Vol 34 (3), pp.320-343.
Full paper available here: http://www.nla.gov.au/openpublish/index.php/aral/article/view/2280/2741 - Loakes, D. K. Moses, J. Simpson and G. Wigglesworth (forthcoming, accepted November 2011) “Developing tests for the assessment of traditional language skill: A case study in an Indigenous Australian community” Language Assessment Quarterly.
- Loakes, D., K. Moses, G. Wigglesworth and J. Simpson (2011) “Speaker age and language choice in child-directed speech in a multilingual Australian Indigenous community” poster presented at the 12th International Congress for the Study of Child Language (IASCL), Université du Québec à Montréal (UQÀM): Montreal Canada. Poster available (pdf, 883kb)
- Wigglesworth, G. and D. Loakes (2009) "Researching Child Language in Indigneous Australia: An ACLA2 Progress Report" paper presented at Research Seminars Program - Languages and Linguistics, Dec 11. The University of Melbourne. (pdf, 381kb)
- Wigglesworth, G. (2009) “Assessing children’s comprehension of indigenous languages” paper presented at the American Association for Applied Linguistics Conference March 21-24: Denver, Colorado. (pdf, 383kb)
- Wigglesworth, G., and J. Simpson (2009) “NAPLAN language assessments for Indigenous children in remote communities: issues and problems” paper presented at the National Symposium on Assessing English as a Second/Other Language in the Australian Context 20 - 21 February, University of New South Wales. (pdf, 1.13mb)
Related publications from ACLA2 researchers
- Dixon, S & Deak, E. (2010) “The Language Centre as a language revitalisation strategy: a case study from Wangka Maya PALC” In J. Hobson, K. Lowe, S. Poetsch, & M. Walsh (eds). Re-awakening languages: Theory and practice in the revitalisation of Australia’s Indigenous languages.
- Simpson, J., J. Caffery, & P. McConvell (2009) Gaps in Australia's indigenous language policy: dismantling bilingual education in the Northern Territory Canberra: Aboriginal Studies Press.
Available online through:
http://apo.org.au/research/gaps-australias-indigenous-language-policy-dismantling-bilingual-education-northern-territo - Disbray S. 2008. Story-telling Styles: a study of adult-child interactions in Tennant Creek. In Children's Language and Multilingualism, ed. J Simpson, G Wigglesworth. London, New York: Continuum International Publishing Group (pp. 45-65).
- Morrison B and S. Disbray 2008. Warumungu children and language in Tennant Creek. Warra wiltaniappendi = Strengthening languages. Proceedings of the Inaugural Indigenous Languages Conference (ILC) 2007, Adelaide, Australia (107-111)
- Disbray, S and J. Simpson. 2005 The expression of possession in Wumpurrarni English, Tennant Creek. Monash Working Papers in Linguistics. 4.2:65-86.
Video Newsletter
- Disbray, S. and Meakins, F. 2005. Talking with kids. University of Melbourne. [accessible video publication of research findings developed with, and distributed to Aboriginal communities and NT Dept of Education and Training]
ACLA1 PhD theses
- Disbray, S. (2009) More than one way to catch a frog: Children's discourse in a contact setting. Unpublished PhD dissertation, The University of Melbourne. http://repository.unimelb.edu.au/10187/8533
- Meakins, F. (2007) Case-marking in contact: the development and function of case morphology in Gurindji Kriol, an Australian mixed language. Unpublished PhD dissertation, The University of Melbourne.
- Available online through:
http://cat.lib.unimelb.edu.au/search/?searchtype=t&searcharg=Case-marking+in+contact&searchscope=30&SORT=D&send=Go - Moses, K. (2009) Do dinosaurs hug in the Kimberley? The use of questions by Aboriginal caregivers and children in the Kimberley Unpublished PhD dissertation, The University of Melbourne.
See: http://cat.lib.unimelb.edu.au/search~S30?/aMoses/amoses/73%2C135%2C228%2CB/f rameset&FF=amoses+karin+rose&1%2C%2C2/indexsort=
Recent ACLA1 publications (from 2008 onwards – see ACLA1 site for earlier work)
- Disbray, S. & Wigglesworth, G. (2008) “Variability in children’s language input in three communities in Aboriginal Australia” In G. Robinson, J. Goodnow, I. Katz and U. Eickelkamp (eds.), Contexts of child development: Culture, policy and intervention.Alice Springs, Charles Darwin University Press.
- Simpson, J. and G. Wigglesworth (2008) Children's language and multilingualism: Indigenous language use at home and school London: Continuum International Press.
