The Linguistics department was well-represented at the annual Applied Linguistics Association Australia and Australian Linguistics Society conferences at LangFest held at ANU in November/December! Plenaries were given by Tim McNamara (‘Language analysis in the determination
of origin of asylum seekers: A perspective from language testing’) and Janet Fletcher (‘It’s all in the timing: Looking for the temporal signatures of prosodic structure in Australian languages’). Papers presented were:
Joe Blythe, Barbara Kelly, Rachel Nordlinger, Jill Wigglesworth: The acquisition of Murrinh-Patha
Patrick Caudal, Rachel Nordlinger: A Murrinh-Patha view of counterfactuality and the irrealis
Samantha Disbray, Debbie Loakes: Writing Aboriginal English & English-based Creoles: Considerations and Reflections
Mai Duong: The developmental approach as an answer for issues in portfolio assessment: A case of Vietnamese EFL students’ writing portfolios
Cathie Elder et al.: How might real achievement in language learning be documented?
Janet Fletcher, Ruth Singer: Fronting, discourse and intonational cues in Mawng
Lauren Gawne, Jill Vaughan: I can haz language play: The construction of language and identity in LOLspeak
Lauren Gawne, Barbara Kelly: What we know people know about gesture
Nazanin Ghodrati, Paul Gruba: Critical thinking in asynchronous discussion forums: The case of ESL students in higher education
Barbara Kelly: Telling who intentionally does what in Sherpa
Kamran Khan: ‘Life in the UK’: Becoming bilingual, becoming British
Ute Knoch, Neomy Storch et al.: Expanding directions in the assessment of writing
Henry Mera, Paul Gruba: A survey of program-wide assessments of modern languages
Jean Mulder, Cara Penry Williams, Sandra Thompson: A Further Word on Final Particle but in Australian English Conversation
Jean Mulder et al.: Situating Linguistics in the Evolving Australian Curriculum
Simon Musgrave, Nick Thieberger: Grammar and hypertext: Nunggubuyu as a case study
Ikuko Nakane: The impact of interpreter mediation on questioning in police interviews
John Pill, Luke Harding: Defining the language assessment literacy ‘gap’: A case study
Sally O’Hagan, John Pill, Cathie Elder, Tim McNamara, Robyn Woodward-Kron: Are linguistic assessment criteria defensible for LSP assessment?
Marie-Eve Ritz, Lesley Stirling: Temporal distinctions around the present in Kala Lagaw Ya
Carsten Roever, Saad Al-Gahtani: Development of L2 Arabic request: The case for U-shaped development
Amir Rouhshad: Nature of task-based negotiation in same-proficiency dyads of second language learners in computer-mediated and face-to-face modes
Alice Rouse: Doctor-patient discourse: A multimodal investigation
Alice Rouse, Barbara Kelly: Boy Talk — A multimodal investigation
Ruth Singer: Nominal classifiers mediate selectional restrictions: motivations for nominal classifications systems with a strong semantic basis
Phuong Tran: The consequential aspect of the validity of the University Entrance Examination English test to the Vietnam National University
Sabina Vakser: Means and motives of mixing: the case of Russian in Melbourne
Van Tran: L2 advice: A sequence organisation perspective
Congrats to all!