To encourage the active involvement of students in the process of acknowledging and rewarding outstanding teaching, the Department of Linguistics this year introduced a system of "student-nominated learning and teaching awards".
Date: December 3-6, 2012
Location: Macquarie University, Sydney
who have received funding
from the Department of Immigration and Citizenship (DIAC) to undertake a
3-year longitudinal study into the relationship between language training
and settlement outcomes of newly arrived migrants from
non-English-speaking backgrounds. The project is an extension of a similar
longitudinal study undertaken at Macquarie University in 2008 and 2009.
The new phase of the project will follow participants from the first phase of the project and also follow a cohort of newly arrived migrants. The goal will be to find out how they use English as they settle in Australia, and how closely their engagement with English in the Adult Migrant English Program matches their communicative needs.
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The Linguistics Department is pleased to announce the launch of a national initiative to collect the accents of 1000 Australian English speakers. Australian English accents from adults of all ages from various locations in all states and territories will be collected to represent the regional and social diversity of Australian English. To become involved visit the AusTalk website.
Katherine Demuth and Felicity Cox were recently awarded an ARC Discovery grant entitled ‘Phonological effects on the development of inflectional morphology’. In collaboration with Senior Research Scientist Stefanie Shattuck-Hufnagel (MIT), they will be exploring the acoustic and articulatory mechanisms underlying children’s variable use of morphemes such as the plural and past tense markers in different linguistic contexts. The findings will contribute to a better understanding of the development of inflectional morphology both in typical and language-impaired populations.
Stephen Crain was named a Macquarie University Distinguished Professor at the 2010 Research Awards Ceremony. Stephen was honoured for “his outstanding work in the advancement of science in the study of human language and cognition.
Who recently received an Australian Learning and Teaching Council citation for “sustained commitment to empowering students to find their individual academic “voices,” and to achieving excellent outcomes for all students through relevant University committees".
We are very happy to announce and congratulate the following two Vice-Chancellor Award and Citation recipients from the Department of Linguistics:
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