From the Linguistics Postgraduate Office
New eStudent facilities
Students are now able to log onto eStudent ( https://student1.mq.edu.au/ ) to add/withdraw from units and change
your class registrations. If you have a query about this process, please use the 'Contact eStudent Support' option in your
Change of Program menu. This then sends an email to the eStudent Support Team who will handle your request. Alternatively, you can send an email to: estudent@reg.mq.edu.au Please remember to include your name, student ID and clear details of your query.
How to log in to your online units:
- use your username and password from any previous Linguistics units. If you don?t have a username and password, or you have forgotten one or both, go to: http://www.ocs.mq.edu.au/stdgen/self_reprint.html
- for example - go to http://online.mq.edu.au/pub/LING937 /or enter via the student site on http://online.mq.edu.au/student/
- log in
- if this is the first time you have used your password, change it to a private one of your own
- bookmark the page for easy reference.
- for information on how to log in, you can also go to: http://online.mq.edu.au/am/access.html
- Note: If you are not able to access the web site, please go to: http://online.mq.edu.au/am/ideacc.html which lists common access issues and gives details of who to contact for technical support. If you still have problems, please contact: IT Help Library, Level 1, Email: ithelp@mq.edu.au or via the Just Ask form at http://www.lib.mq.edu.au/justask/ ICQ#: 32801246 Web: http://www.lib.mq.edu.au/general/itssupport/ Phone: (02) 9850 HELP, (02) 9850 4357 (in Sydney) or 1 800 063 191 (outside Sydney) .
From the NCELTR Resource Centre 
Two long established ESL journals are now available online for MU users via the library Catalogue and Journal Finder. They are:
- TESOL Quarterly from Vol 35 2001 onwards-
- Prospect (NCELTR's own journal) from Vol 17 no 3 2002 onwards. The direct URL for Prospect is http://www.nceltr.mq.edu.au/prospect/Prospectvols.html
There are also two new collections of 5500 online books that are available via the Electronic Books Service on the Library Database menu http://www.lib.mq.edu.au/news/index.html#ebooks
- Xreferplus - includes dictionaries, encyclopedias, thesauri
- Netlibrary - includes 1850 subscribed and 3400 free ebooks. Access to Netlibrary is also available via the library catalogue. Printing of these ebooks is only on a page-by-page basis.
The DELTAA database (via the Library Database menu) now has an online thesaurus available.
For help with your information needs, email us at rescentr@nceltr.mq.edu.au All our services are listed on the website at http://nceltr.edu.au/resources
From the Macquarie Library
Electronic book collections
The Library now subscribes to two major electronic book collections, Xreferplus and NetLibrary, adding more than 5500 electronic books to the Library's resources. Xreferplus was described in the previous edition of LINGLINE .
NetLibrary
NetLibrary provides access to 1850 subscribed and over 3400 free electronic books, including textbooks, handbooks, encyclopedias and dictionaries, and other subject-specific titles from a wide range of academic publishers, including Erlbaum, Routledge, OUP and Blackwell, and from a wide range of university presses.
Some examples of Linguistics titles in NetLibrary are:
a.. Encyclopedic dictionary of applied linguistics: a handbook for language teaching (Blackwell, 1999)
b.. Rethinking linguistics / edited by Hayley G. Davis and Talbot J. Taylor (RoutledgeCurzon, 2003)
c.. Linguistics for L2 teachers / Larry Andrews (Erlbaum, 2001)
d.. The handbook of Japanese linguistics / edited by Natsuko Tsujimura (Blackwell, 1999)
e.. Sociolinguistics : a resource book for students / Peter Stockwell (Routledge, 2002)
f.. How children learn the meanings of words / Paul Bloom (MIT Press, 2000)
g.. Meaning in language : an introduction to semantics and pragmatics / D. Alan Cruse (Oxford University Press, 2000)
h.. Handbook of undergraduate second language education / edited by Judith W. Rosenthal (Erlbaum, 2000)
Access
Each electronic book is listed individually in the Catalogue with a link to its location in Xreferplus or NetLibrary. You can also search the Catalogue by subject and limit to 'electronic books'. From the Library's Databases page there is a link to Electronic Books Service which also provides access to both Xreferplus and NetLibrary.
For enquiries about library services relating to linguistics, please contact Maureen Kattau, Academic Outreach Librarian, Linguistics and Psychology, Macquarie University Library, e-Learning & Information Services Division, Ph: (61 2) 9850 6521, Email: mkattau@library.mq.edu.au
Linguistics Department Research Seminars
The Linguistics Department Research Seminar Series is primarily intended for research students, but staff are also warmly invited as are coursework postgraduates. The seminars are given by a mix of Department staff, invited lecturers from other fields in the University, and outside visitors to the Department. Unless otherwise indicated, seminars commence at 11 am sharp and are held in the Linguistics Seminar Room - W5C 221. Following each seminar, is a question and answer session with the speaker commencing at 12 pm.
Seminars for semester 2:
- August 23 - Professor Chris Candlin - Conditional Explanations in Healthcare Communication
- August 30 - Professor Anne Burns
- October 11 - (Commencing 10 am) - Professor Gerd Egloff (Ger) - to be confirmed
- October 11 - (Commencing 11 am) - Professor Andrew Cohen (USA) - A Web-Based Approach to Strategic Learning of Speech Acts.
- October 12 - Workshop given by Professor Andrew Cohen - Learning Styles, Learner Strategies, and Motivation in Second Language Learning (held W5C 221 (11am - 1pm)
- October 18 - to be advised
- November 1 - Dr. Cynthia Roy (USA) - Discourse markers - what they are, how they operate in lectures, narratives in ASL
- November 8 - Student Mini-Festival
- December 6 - Professor Erich Steiner (Ger)
For more information about these and other research seminars, please refer to the Seminar web page http://www.ling.mq.edu.au/programs/researchdegrees/researchseminars.htm
Click here for the detailed schedule of the seminars.
Writing resource for enrolled postgraduate students
The LINGPWS Linguistics Postgraduate Writing-Skills website is part of the support services and resources offered by the Linguistics Department for its on-campus and distance students.
All Linguistics students enrolled in a postgraduate unit (on-campus, external) can access the site by using their MQ ID and password which every student is given at enrolment. To logon to the website please go to: http://online.mq.edu.au/pub/LINGPWS/ For further details see last issue of Lingline (you can click on to Previous Issues at the top of this page).
Division of Linguistics and Psychology Postgraduate Research Festival, December 9, 10 and 11 ? 2004, Macquarie University.
The Postgraduate research festival is a wonderful opportunity for our students to present their work in an open and friendly environment. You will meet colleagues from Psychology and Linguistics, and you may find that you share similar interests. The feedback that you receive from staff and students should prove to be invaluable.
If you are just starting out on your research you may like to use the festival to tell people what your research is all about, and the sort of things that you are likely to be doing.
For further information on the research festival and to see some abstracts from last year, visit the festival website at: http://www.psy.mq.edu.au/festival/
New Postgraduate Programs in Translation and Interpreting
The Department of Linguistics is pleased to announce two new postgraduate programs in translation and interpreting commencing from semester 1, 2005.
1. Master of Translation
The aim of the course is to enhance the qualifications of practicing translators who are accredited at professional level by NAATI or have had training in translation equivalent to this level (e.g., completed the Postgraduate Diploma in Translation and Interpreting at Macquarie University with the grade of Credit or above in all professional translation subjects, by teaching them research and practical skills involved in translating highly sophisticated, specialized texts. The course will thus prepare students to take the NAATI advanced translator exam and gain accreditation at that level.
Admission requirements -NAATI professional accreditation in translation or completion of PgDip or MA in Translation and Interpreting with the minimum grade of Cr for TRAN 820 or equivalent overseas qualification.
Course structure - Coordinator: A/P Eddie Ronowicz, Duration: 1 year full time, Completion requirements: 32 cp: 4 core units plus 16 credit points for elective units. Enrolments: March semester only First intake: March 2005 Languages: Chinese, Japanese, Korean each year, French, Spanish, Thai every second or third year, depending on the number of candidates. Further languages may be added in future as need arises.
2. Master of Conference Interpreting
The aim of the course is to enhance the qualifications of practicing interpreters who are accredited at professional level by NAATI or have had training in interpreting equivalent to this level (e.g., completed the Postgraduate Diploma in Translation and Interpreting at Macquarie University with the grade of Credit or above in all professional interpreting subjects), by teaching them research and practical skills involved in conference interpreting in a simulated conference setting. The course will thus prepare students to take the NAATI conference interpreting exam and gain accreditation at that level.
Admission requirements - NAATI professional accreditation in translation or completion of PgDip or MA in Translation and Interpreting with the minimum grade of Cr for TRAN 820 or equivalent overseas qualification.
Course structure - Coordinator: A/P Eddie Ronowicz, Duration: 1 year full time Completion requirements: 32 cp: 4 core units plus 16 credit points for elective units. Enrolments: March semester only. First intake: March 2005. Languages: Chinese, Japanese, Korean each year, French, Spanish, Thai every second or third year, depending on the number of candidates. Further languages may be added in future as need arises.
3. Information for current and former students wishing to enrol in the new programs
All students who are currently enrolled or who studied with our program in the past are eligible for enrolment in the new programs provided they satisfy their entry requirements. All students, both former students and current ones, wishing to enroll in March 2005 for one of the two new programs must satisfy the requirements mentioned above, i.e., they must either have NAATI professional accreditation in the relevant area (translation or interpreting) or they must have one of our degrees (postgraduate diploma or MA) completed with the result of Credit or above (B in the old structure of grades at Macquarie) for either TRAN 820 or TRAN 822.
Current students who are now enrolled in their second semester of the Postgraduate Diploma must simply complete their degree with an appropriate result as described above. Current students who are now enrolled in their third semester of the MA program must complete their degree with an appropriate result as described above. Current students who are now enrolled in their second semester of the MA program and wish to start one of the new degrees in March 2005 must make sure they take subjects which will enable them to complete the Postgraduate Diploma by the end of this semester. We will notify those students in due time when they need to change program from MA to Postgraduate Diploma.
All students please note:
Admission to the new degrees is not automatic - you must obtain a minimum of Credit for subjects indicated and you must complete one of our current degrees to be eligible. We will continue to offer both the Postgraduate Diploma and MA and you do not have to change anything if you are not interested in the new degrees.
From Speech Pathology
- Those interested in attending a talk by visiting lecturer Dr Anna-Maija Korpijaakko-Huuhka are most welcome. Annu is Lecturer in Logopedics in the Department of Speech Sciences (former Dept. of Phonetics), Faculty of Behavioural Sciences at the University of Helsinki and her research focuses on the discourse of individuals with aphasia. Her talk is titled: Interpersonal language use in a clinical task: a case of severe aphasia. It will be held on Tuesday August 24 at 12.00 in C3A501.
- Master of Speech & Language Pathology student Gino Hipolito is currently undertaking a research project that investigates incidence of voice disorders amongst university lecturers. He distributed over 250 questionnaires to lecturers across the College of Science & Technology. Information gained from the questionnaires may be used to inform occupational health and safety policies within the university, and Speech Pathology may also be able to develop some initiatives for staff to learn more about vocal hygiene and ways to look after their voices especially during busy teaching times. Gino anxiously awaits your replies!
- Dr Beth Armstrong, Coordinator of the Master of Speech & Language Pathology program, presented a paper in June at the Clinical Aphasiology Conference in Park City, Utah. The 120 participants at this conference are all active researchers in the field of aphasia and range from current PhD students to experienced researchers who are considered to be at the 'cutting edge' in the area. Papers ranged from experimental studies in the treatment of apraxia and specific lexical deficits, to studies exploring social models of intervention including "Life coaching approaches to living successfully with aphasia," (Audrey Holland), "Aphasia, loneliness and social support" (Katherine Ross, Leonard LaPointe, and Richard Katz) and "A case study in cultural aphasiology: Training the aphasia clinician for the multicultural workplace" (Claire Penn). With increasing interest in the field of discourse analysis and conversation analysis, a number of papers were devoted to these areas in the clinical populations of those with aphasia, dementia, right hemisphere damage and traumatic brain injury. Beth's paper was entitled "Expressing opinions and feelings in aphasia: Linguistic options" and explored the ability of individuals with aphasia to convey emotional reactions to situations, going beyond the traditional focus on information-giving in their discourse. Analyses of the use of particular patterns of transitivity revealed that these individuals did have less ability than their non-brain-damaged counterparts in this regard. Ramifications for their expression of their post-stroke self and identity were explored .
University of Sydney, Linguistics Department, Seminar Series
Unless otherwise indicated, all seminars are on Fridays, beginning at 2.30pm in Transient Room 202. They are followed by afternoon tea in the Tea-room. All are welcome.
- 20 August Ulrich Ammon (Duisburg University, Germany) On the language policy of the European Union (held in Teachers College Lecture Theatre U306)
- 27 August Ahmar Mahboob Issues of Non-native speakers in TESOL
- 3 September Kamal Yusra Mixed language in Ampenan Town, Lombok, Indonesia
- 10 September Hanae Katayama (Pennsylvania State University)- Cultural expectations and interactional preferences in comedy duo discourse
- 17 September Brian Taylor Grammatical changes in Australian English, from the systemlinguistic to the sociolinguistic
- 24 September Anthony Diller - Why should an isolating language covet morphology? Thai's affair with Khmero-Indic
- 8 October Toni Borowsky TBA
- 15 October Ingrid Piller - Success and failure in second language acquisition
- 22 October Emily Farrell Narratives and second language learners
- 29 October Alex Madak Collaborative practice in EFL learners conversation
For further information: Bridget English, 9351 4348 or email: bridget.english@arts.usyd.edu.au
Upcoming Conferences and Workshops 
International English Grammar Workshop
The Dept. of English, Acharya Nagarjuna University, Guntur, is organizing an International Seminar-cum-Workshop on English Grammar from 17-21 December, 2004. We invite your participation in this seminar. For further details please visit us at the following website- http://www.grammarseminar.com/
Call for Papers - Public Service Translating and Interpreting Breaking Down the Barriers: A Team Effort, 19-21 March 2005, Heriot-Watt University, Edinburgh, Scotland, UK.
The purpose of the conference is to explore best practice for practitioners seeking to deliver social inclusion and equality across the
divides between languages and cultures - including professional cultures. Deadline for submission of abstracts: 1 September 2004. Topics may include:
- the role and responsibilities of the Public Service Provider/Professional within the interpreted or translated interaction
- specific concerns from the perspective of the non-English speaking/non-majority language speaking user
- professional practice & policy
- alternative and new modes of delivery e.g. telephone, video-conferencing, relay, co-working, simultaneous interpreting (in booths) in the public sector etc.
- initial training, Continuous Professional Development and Resources
- empirical research in translation, interpreting and cross-cultural communication in the public sector
- other relevant topics
The conference will be of interest to:
- Policy-makers with an interest in social inclusion and equality of access for people from minority and ethnic backgrounds
- People responsible for ensuring the effective delivery of services to multilingual / multi-cultural groups
- people working in public service sectors: legal system and immigration, health care, local government (social work, housing, education, environmental health...), cross-cultural survey work, etc.
- Organisations in the voluntary and not-for-profit sector offering support to minority language groups (including the Deaf Community)
- Public Service Interpreters & Translators (practitioners, trainees and students)
- British Sign Language/English Interpreters (practitioners, trainees and students) or other Sign Language/Spoken Language combinations
- Trainers of public service interpreters and translators
- Researchers in the fields of interpreting, translating, linguistics, cross-cultural communication and anthropology.
Further details and for information about submitting an abstract contact: PSIT Conference Organising Committee, E mail: MAGT2@hw.ac.uk , Post: PSIT: Breaking Down the Barriers, Maria Tillmann, Henry Prais Building, Heriot-Watt University, Riccarton, Edinburgh EH14 4AS, UK. Fax: +44 (0)131 451 3079
Australian Institute of Translators and Interpreters (AUSIT), and The Australian Sign Language Interpreters Association (Victoria) (ASLIA Vic) 2004 combined AUSIT/ASLIA (Vic) Biennial Conference, 22 - 24 October.
Translation and interpreting of written, spoken and signed language takes place at every level of business and in every walk of society. It is an essential and integral part of many processes we take for granted. The profession, as such, is relatively new, and unfortunately the high level of skill and ethical propriety required for practice goes largely unacknowledged by society at large. This leaves practitioners without the power to plead their case; the power to generate income that is commensurate with their value; the power to advise clients effectively; the power to develop and maintain skills; and the power to influence policy development that is appropriate for an organised profession.
This conference will interest practitioners, service providers, educators, academics and policy makers. The Conference Committee has received a number of ideas for workshops, panel discussions and presentations, including:
a.. Future of the profession
b.. Recent developments in the theory and practice of translation
c.. Business, economic and policy imperatives of the industry
d.. Understanding the power of the medical interpreter
e.. Interpreter as an assumed expert in court
We are pleased to announce that the Key Note Speaker for the Conference will be Cynthia B. Roy PhD, Assistant Professor, Department of Interpretation, Gallaudet University, Washington DC, USA. A prominent and highly accomplished sociolinguist, researcher and trainer, author of numerous publications, Cynthia Roy has a special interest in interpreting as a discourse process and has developed a state-wide curriculum for training interpreters in Texas. For further details, c ontact the PTTP Conference Organising Committee at: Email : victas@ausit.org Telephone : 1800 284 181 (+61 3 9877 4369 for overseas callers) .
Call for Papers - The Fourth Asialex conference, themed ?Words in Asian cultural contexts?, will be held on June 1 - June 3 2005 in Singapore, organised by the National University of Singapore, and held at the M hotel.
The conference theme will be ?Words in Asian Cultural Contexts'. The examination of the functions and representations of words in Asia and of Asia in words aims to bring together linguistic and literary scholars of Asia in an interdisciplinary forum. One of the key questions is the conceptualisation of cultural space and its construction through language in Asian environments. Particularly in Asia, where different cultures and ethnicities commonly converge and give rise to cultural and textual hybridity, the wider study of words can foster better cross-cultural communication and lead to a better understanding of its peoples. In order to encourage greater cross-fertilisation of ideas in Asian cultural contexts, this conference plans to focus on the following related perspectives:
- lexicology and lexicography
- sociolinguistics and language pedagogy
- information and communications technology
- literary, cultural and postcolonial studies
We invite presentations for this conference which may take the form of papers, posters or symposiums. The time allotted for each paper presentation is 30 minutes (ie 20 minutes for presentation and 10 minutes for discussion). A poster session will also be held at the conference. Details such as the size and format of poster stands will be announced later. The time slot for the symposium is 100 minutes (eg 4?5 short papers plus discussion). We invite abstracts (max. 250 words) for papers, posters and symposiums. All presentations should be given in English. Submission deadline for abstracts is 31 December 2004. Further information, including on-line registration and submission of abstracts, can be found at: http://asialex.nus.edu.sg/
Contact details: Asialex Committee, c/o Department of English Language and Literature, National University of Singapore, Block AS5, 7 Arts Link, Republic of Singapore 117570. Tel: (+65) 6874-3915, Fax: (+65) 6773-2981, email: asialex@nus.edu.sg
New Publications
From the Continuum International Publishing Group Ltd
http://www.continuumbooks.com/
"Discourses in Secondary School Mathematics Classrooms According to Social Class and Gender," edited by Joseph Foley,
titled Language, Education and Discourse: Functional Approaches.
Free Journal subscription
European Educational Research Journal - EERJ : www.triangle.co.uk/eerj - You may wish to subscribe to this free journal for some interesting reading. Those intersted in SFL might be interested in 'Vertical Discourse: the role of the teacher in the transmission and acquisition of decontextualised language' by Jill Bourne, School of Education, University of Southampton, United Kingdom. European Educational Research Journal 2.4, 2003. You can access this for free at the journal website: http://www.triangle.co.uk/eerj