HISTORY AND PHILOSOPHY OF SCIENCE
T. McNamara
The development of tests of English for overseas trained teachers of science and mathematics - A. Davies and C. Elder.
The development of a National Language Certification System (with particular reference to Japanese and Korean) - A. Davies and A. Brown.
Computer adaptive language testing in French and in English - A. Davies and
T.
McNamara.The validation of the International English Language Testing System test in teacher training programmes - C. Elder.
The definition of adequate proficiency levels in foreign language learning at successive high school levels -
A.
Davies, C. Elder and T. McNamara.Diagnostic testing of university students who are not native speakers of English - P. Kelly.
Assessing the second language proficiency of health professionals - T. McNamara.
Developing assessments of listening and reading skills in foreign languages in the lower secondary school - T. McNamara, C. Elder and A. Davies.
Using Rasch analysis to investigate inter-rater reliability in the testing of English for academic purposes - T. McNamara.
The theory and practice of performance testing in second languages -
T.
McNamara.Communicative language testing - T. McNamara.
LANGUAGE PROGRAMME EVALUATION
Evaluation of a Hebrew-English late immersion bilingual education programme - T. McNamara.
FACULTY OF ARTS
LEXICOLOGY AND LEXICAL SEMANTICS Acehnese dictionary and dialectology - M. Durie.
A syntactic and semantic description of say/tell verbs in English - M. Durie.
Dictionaries and ethnothesauri of Kayardild and Mayali - N. Evans.
Semantic change and polysemy in Australian languages - N. Evans.
LITERACY
Theory of reading and writing in a second language - P. Kelly.
Structure of written texts P. Kelly.
Cross-cultural aspects of literacy - P. Kelly.
MEDICAL COMMUNICATION
Speech pathology in a cross-cultural setting - S. DBpke (with M. Rosse, J. Ryan, P. Nguyen, S. Tyson, J. Spence, M. Garner).
Directives in doctor-patient discourse (with J. Mulholland)
- L.
Stirling.Measurement of patient contribution in medical consultations (with J. Mulholland) - L. Stirling.
ORAL LITERATURES Oral literature of Acehnese - M. Durie.
COGNITIVE SCIENCE
The production and perception of prosody in a normal and
hemisphere-damaged population (with R. Wales and G. Kinsella)
- L.
Stirling.SEMANTICS
A typology of natural language epistemologies - M. Durie.
A semantic and cognitive account of evidentiality - L. Stirling.
SYNTAX AND MORPHOLOGY Acehnese grammar - M. Durie.
Grammatical relations in Split-S or active languages - M. Durie.
Universals of grammatical agreement - M. Durie.
Universals of passivisation - M. Durie.
Aboriginal languages and language typology.- N. Evans.
Interaction of morphology and syntax, particularly noun incorporation and multiple case marking - N. Evans.
Typological correlates of ergativity in Australian languages - N. Evans.
Head-marking languages and grammatical theory - N. Evans.
Syntax and morphology of Kayardild, Mayali and Kungarakany - N. Evans.
Switch-reference and impersonal constructions - L. Stirling.
Unification grammars and linguistic information - L. Stirling.
PUBLISHED WORK Books
DAVIES, A. - Principles of Language Testing, Basil Blackwell, Oxford:
176 pp. (1990).
Chapters of Books
DAVIES, A. - The Study of Language. Chapter 10 in Wilkinson A., Davies A. and Berrill D. Spoken English Illuminated, Open University Milton Keynes: 91-100 (1990).
DAVIES, A. - The Spoken Language. Chapter 11 in Wilkinson A., Davies A. and Berrill D. Spoken English Illuminated, Open University Milton Keynes: 101-111 (1990).
DAVIES, A. - Operationalising Uncertainty in Language Testing. In Jong John H.A.L and Stevenson D. (eds.) Individualising the Assessment of Language Abilities, Multilingual Matters Ltd., Avon: pp. 179-195.
(1990).
DAVIES, A. and A. BROWN. - Designing Instruments to Measure Language Proficiency. In E. Wylie (ed.) Assessment of Proficiency in Japanese as a Foreign Language. Asian Studies Council, Canberra: pp. 94-103 (1990).
ELDER, C. (with Bregu-Hougaz) - Italian in Victorian Colleges. In Bettoni, C. and Lo Bianco, J. (eds) Understanding Italy. Frederick May Foundation, Sydney: pp. 202-207 (1989).
EVANS, N. - The Minkin language of the Burketown region. In G.N. O'Grady, ed., Studies in comparative Pama-Nyungan. Pacific Linguistics, Canberra: 173-88 (1990).
Articles
DAVIES, A. - "Considering Validity", in Australian Review of Applied Linguistics 11, 2: pp. 1-12 (1988).
DURIE, M. - "Proto-Chamic and Acehnese mid vowels: towards
Proto-Aceh-Chamic", in Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies 53.1: pp. 100-114 (1990).
DURIE, M. - "What's in a grammar: a reply to Stokhof", in Bijdragen tot de Taal-, Land-, en Volkenkunde 145: pp. 165-280 (1989).
McNAMARA, T.F. - "Item Response Theory and. the validation of an ESP test for health professionals", in Language Testing 7,1: pp. 52-75 (1990).
FACULTY OF ARTS
Reports
DAVIES, A. - "Evaluation of the New South Wales 1989 Basic Skills Testing Program". Report to the Ethnic Affairs Commission of New South Wales, pp. 77 (1990).
DAVIES, A. - "Evaluation of Four KELT Projects in South India", (first author with Jacob Tharu). Report to British Council and ODA, pp. 38.
(1990).
EVANS, N. - "Study and production of an orthography for the
Gun-djeihmi Language, Alligator Rivers Region". Report to Australian National Parks and Wildlife Service, 1220 p. (1990).
GARNER, M., ELDER, C. and WORLEY, L. - "Getting the Message Across:
Communication with patients from a non-English speaking background in the Outpatients' Department of the Royal Women's Hospital". A report to the Outpatients' Committee. (August 1990).
Journal Editing
McNAMARA, T.F. (ed.) - Language Testing Colloquium. Selected papers from a Colloquium at the Horwood Language Centre, University of Melbourne, 24-25 August, 1987. (Australian Review of Applied Linguistics 11.2) 96 pp. (1988).
THESES PASSED FOR HIGHER DEGREES Master of Arts
ELDER, C. - Cross-cultural communication in a medical setting:
Patterns of interaction between outpatients of non-English speaking background and staff in a Melbourne hospital
EVANS, R. - The International English Language Testing System: Is 'it suitable for adult immigrant students who apply for tertiary
education?
LIPA, L. - Student and teacher perceptions of vocabulary difficulty PARIDAEN, P. - Language, violence and television news
WORLEY, L. - Communication and miscommunication in a hospital setting:
A study of communication difficulties faced by non-English speakers in the outpatients' department of a large public hospital.
THESES IN PROGRESS Doctor of Philosophy
AMMERLAAN, T. - Functional language processing in Dutch English dominant bilinguals
CLUTTERBUCK, M. - Language use of E.S.L. students working with computers
CHISHOLM, M.-T. - UnderIying criteria in evaluating writing GARDNER, R. - The language of intimates
KOH, A. - Topics in colloquial Malay [submitted]
KRUSPE, N. - A grammar of Semelai
McNAMARA, T. - Assessing the second language proficiency of health professionals [submitted]
MORGAN, J. - Literacy levels of Victorian apprentices
NATHAN, D. - A natural language interface for a computer vision system NASU, T. - A study of language attitudes in the Japanese immigrant community in Melbourne in the context of an integrated theory of social identity
ROSSE, M. - Individual variation in imitative ability
TAPPER, J. - The oral academic discourse of foreign college students WSJ, Y-J. - A structural account of semantic change in Xiang dialect.
Master of Arts
AIDANI, M. - Language ecology: Farsi in Melbourne
KLOMP, H. - The linguistic coding of genre - comparing English and Turkish
SPENCE, J. - Business communication in the new technologies ZARAKIS-ADAMOU, M. - Language ecology: Greek in Melbourne.
SUBSTANTIAL GRANTS RECEIVED
AUSTRALIAN RESEARCH COUNCIL - Non-Pama-Nyungan languages of northern Australia: descriptive, grammatical, comparative and sociolinguistic investigations
AUSTRALIAN RESEARCH COUNCIL - From discourse function to grammatical.
form in Acehnese: a study of cohesion and grammaticisation in conversational and narrative discourse
AUSTRALIAN RESEARCH COUNCIL - The production and perception of prosody in a normal and hemisphere-damaged population (with R. Wales and G. Kinsella)
NATIONAL POLICY ON LANGUAGES: MULTICULTURAL AND CROSS-CULTURAL SUPPLTATION PROGRAM (MACSP) - Attitudes to speech and language disorders in cross-cultural speech pathology.
DEET and VEF - To establish the Language Testing Centre of the National Language Institute of Australia for 2 projects -
(1) The development of tests of English for overseas trained teachers of science and mathematics.
(2) The development of a national Language certification system (with particular reference to Japanese and Korean).
ACER - The Development of the Australian Language Certificates
ETHNIC AFFAIRS COMMISSION - Evaluation of the Basic Skill Tests of New South Wales numeracy.
MOUNT SCOPUS COLLEGE - Evaluation of a late bilingual immersion programme
RAAF SCHOOL OF LANGUAGES - Consultancy on Defence Language School Proficiency Rating Scales.