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PROF GILLIAN WIGGLESWORTH



Contact Details

Organization: Languages and Linguistics
Position: HEAD, SCHOOL OF LANGUAGES & LINGUISTICS
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Homepage: http://www.linguistics.unimelb.edu.au/about/staff/profiles/wigglesworth/
Work: 8344 4215
Fax: 9347 2613
Level: 05
Building: Arts Centre
Campus: Parkville

Biography

Gillian has been an Ozreader for Social, Behavioural and Economic Research Networks Program of the Australian Research Council since 2005.

Research Expertise and International Linkages

Research Expertise

Research Interest Country of Expertise
Interlanguage Pragmatics Australia
Second Language Acquisition Australia
Second Language Pedagogy Australia
Multilingualism Australia
First Language Acquisition Australia
Language Testing Australia
Interlanguage Pragmatics Australia

Qualifications, Honours, Fellowships and Other Awards

Qualifications

Title Institution Date Awarded Abbreviation
Graduate Diploma in Education La Trobe University 31-Dec-1982
Doctor of Philosophy La Trobe University 31-Dec-1993

Memberships

Membership Type Membership Body Description Start Date End Date
Member International Language Testing Association Board Member of ILTA 01-Jan-2006 31-Dec-2008
Member Social, Behavioural and Economic Research Networks Program of the Australian Research Council Ozreader 01-Jan-2005 31-Dec-2009

Government Research Classifications

Research Fields, Courses and Discipline Classifications

Socio-Economic Objective Classifications

Grants and Contracts

Research Grants, Contracts and Consultancies awarded to the University of Melbourne as the administering institution (since 2003) as recorded in Themis Agreements.

Grants

Title Role Funding Source Scheme Award Date
How mixed language input affects child language development: case studies from Central Australia Chief Investigator AUST RESEARCH COUNCIL Discovery Projects 01/01/2003
The role of feedback in second language learning processes Chief Investigator AUST RESEARCH COUNCIL Discovery Projects 01/01/2004
The assessment of receptive traditional language skills in indigenous children Chief Investigator AIATSIS Research Grants Program 01/08/2007
A longitudinal study of the interaction of home and school language in three Aboriginal communities Chief Investigator AUST RESEARCH COUNCIL Discovery Projects 01/01/2008

Contracts

Title Role Funding Source Award Date
IMPLICATIONS OF ACCENT, INTELLIBILITY AND WORLD ENGLISHES FOR ENGLISH LANGUAGE ASSESSMENT Chief Investigator EDUCATIONAL TESTING SERVICE 30/04/2006

Publications

Publications produced at the University of Melbourne and reported in the Annual Publications Collection and 'Research Report' since 2001. The Themis Publications module, released in November 2006, allows additional publications from previous institutions and publications from past years to be entered.

Publications in 2009

Journal Articles

  • Are two heads better than one? Pair work in L2 assessment contexts
    Year: 2009
    Journal: Language Testing
    Volume: 26
    Issue: 3
    Page numbers: 325-339
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  • Pair versus individual writing: Effects on fluency, complexity and accuracy
    Year: 2009
    Journal: Language Testing
    Volume: 26
    Issue: 3
    Page numbers: 445-466
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Publications in 2008

Books

  • Children's language and multilingualism: Indigenous language use at home and school


    Year: 2008
    Publisher: Continuum(London)
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Book Chapters

  • The silence of the frogs: Dysfunctional discourse in the "English-only" Aboriginal classroom


    Year: 2008
    Book: Children's language and multilingualism: Indigenous language use at home and school
    Publisher: Continuum(London)
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  • A longitudinal study of language acquisition in Australian Aboriginal children in three communities
    Year: 2008
    Book: Contexts of child development: Culture, policy and intervention
    Publisher: Charles Darwin University Press
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  • The language learning environment of preschool children in Indigenous communities
    Year: 2008
    Book: Children's language and multilingualism: Indigenous language use at home and school
    Publisher: Continuum(London)
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Journal Articles

  • Surveys of Ph.D./Ed.D. theses: Review of doctoral research in second-language teaching and learning in Australia (2003-2006)


    Year: 2008
    Journal: Language Teaching: the international abstracting journal for language teachers and applied linguistics
    Volume: 41
    Issue: 2
    Page numbers: 273-293
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Major Reference Works

  • Encyclopedia of Language and Education (Volume 7: Language testing and assessment):

    Task and performance based assessment


    Year: 2008
    Reference Work Title: Encyclopedia of Language and Education (Volume 7: Language testing and assessment)
    Publisher: Springer Science+Business Media(New York)
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Publications in 2007

Books

  • Bilingualism: an advanced resource book
    Year: 2007
    Publisher: Routledge(Oxford)
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Book Chapters

  • Investigating task design in Academic Writing prompts
    Year: 2007
    Book: IELTS Collected Papers: Research in speaking and writing assessment
    Publisher: Cambridge University Press(Cambridge)
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  • Writing Tasks: The Effects of Collaboration
    Year: 2007
    Book: Investigating Tasks in Formal Language Learning
    Publisher: Multilingual Matters(Clevedon)
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Journal Articles

  • Mitigating Difficult Requests in the Workplace: What Learners and Teachers Need to Know
    Year: 2007
    Journal: TESOL Quarterly
    Volume: 41
    Issue: 4
    Page numbers: 791-803
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  • Opening doors: Teachers learning through collaborative research
    Year: 2007
    Journal: Prospect
    Volume: 22
    Issue: 1
    Page numbers: 19-36
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Publications in 2006

Book Chapters

  • An investigation of the effectiveness and validity of planning in Part 2 of the IELTS Speaking Test
    Year: 2006
    Book: IELTS Research Reports Volume 6
    Publisher: IELTS Australia(Canberra)
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Publications in 2005

Books

  • First Language Support in Adult ESL in Australia
    Year: 2005
    Publisher: Macquarie University(Sydney)
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Book Chapters

  • Basic English Skills Test (BEST)
    Year: 2005
    Book: ESOL Tests and Testing
    Publisher: Teachers of English to Speakers of Other Languages(Virginia)
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  • Implications for L1 use - where to now?
    Year: 2005
    Book: First language support in adult ESL in Australia
    Publisher: Macquarie University(Sydney)
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  • Research in use of L1 in adult language learning settings
    Year: 2005
    Book: First language support in adult ESL in Australia
    Publisher: National Centre for English Language Teaching and Research(Sydney)
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  • Researching the Effectiveness of Professional Development in Pragmatics
    Year: 2005
    Book: Applied Linguistics and Language Teacher Education
    Publisher: Springer Science+Business Media(New York)
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Journal Articles

  • Different generations, different needs: Migrant youth in English language programs


    Year: 2005
    Journal: Prospect
    Volume: 20
    Issue: 3
    Page numbers: 6-23
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  • Current Approaches to Researching Second Language Learner Processes
    Year: 2005
    Journal: Annual Review of Applied Linguistics
    Volume: 25
    Page numbers: 98- 111
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  • Oral Interaction Around Computers in the Project-Oriented CALL Classroom
    Year: 2005
    Journal: Language Learning and Technology
    Volume: 19
    Issue: 3
    Page numbers: 121 - 145
    Publisher: University of Hawai'i National Foreign Language Resource Center
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  • Rater judgment and English language speaking proficiency
    Year: 2005
    Journal: World Englishes
    Volume: 24
    Issue: 3
    Page numbers: 383 - 391
    Publisher: Blackwell Publishers
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  • What's in a diary? Di-EL first words
    Year: 2005
    Journal: Deafness and Education International
    Volume: 7
    Issue: 2
    Page numbers: 98-116
    Publisher: Whurr Publishers
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Publications in 2004

Conference Publications/Papers

Computer Software Products

  • Di-EL first words
    Year: 2004
    Version:: 1
    Publisher: HEAR Works(Melbourne)
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Audio Visual Recordings

    Publications in 2003

    Books

    • The kaleidoscope of adult second language learning: learner, teacher and researcher perspective
      Year: 2003
      Publisher: National Centre for English Language Teaching and Research(Sydney)
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    Book Chapters

    • Bilingual initiatives in the ESL classroom
      Year: 2003
      Book: The kaleidoscope of adult second language learning: learner, teacher and researcher perspectives
      Publisher: National Centre for English Language Teaching and Research(Sydney)
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    • Reflections on the patterns from the kaleidoscope
      Year: 2003
      Book: The kaleidoscope of adult second language learning: learner, teacher and researcher perspectives
      Publisher: National Centre for English Language Teaching and Research(Sydney)
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    • Revolving the kaleidoscope: the role of cultural, social, educational and individual factors in language learning
      Year: 2003
      Book: The kaleidoscope of adult second language learning: learner, teacher and researcher perspectives
      Publisher: National Centre for English Language Teaching and Research(Sydney)
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    • Second language development: extending, elaborating and refining English speech
      Year: 2003
      Book: The kaleidoscope of adult second language learning: learner, teacher and researcher perspectives
      Publisher: National Centre for English Language Teaching and Research(Sydney)
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    • The adult migrant English program in Australia
      Year: 2003
      Book: Qualitätsanforderungen fuur die Sprachförderung im Rahmen der Integration von Zuwanderern
      Publisher: Institut fur igrationsforschung un Interkulturelle Studien(Osnabruck)
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    Journal Articles

    • Is there a role for the use of the L1 in an L2 setting?


      Year: 2003
      Journal: TESOL Quarterly
      Volume: 37
      Issue: 4
      Page numbers: 760-770
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    • Assessment of language skills in young children with profound hearing loss under two years of age
      Year: 2003
      Journal: Journal of Deaf Studies and Deaf Education
      Volume: 8
      Issue: 4
      Page numbers: 402-421
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    • The role of the first language in the second language classroom: friend or foe
      Year: 2003
      Journal: English Teaching
      Volume: 57
      Issue: 1
      Page numbers: 17-31
      Publisher: Korea Association of Teachers of English
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    Publications in 2001

    Book Chapters

    • Influence on performance in task-based oral assessments


      Year: 2001
      Book: Researching pedagogic tasks: Second language learning, teaching and testing
      Publisher: Pearson Education(Essex)
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    • A crosscultural investigation of Australian and Israeli parents' narrative interactions with their children.
      Year: 2001
      Book: Children's Language. Developing Narrative and Discourse Competence.
      Publisher: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates(New Jersey)
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