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Discipline of Linguistics
School of Humanities
Napier Building Level 7
Room 722
The University of Adelaide
SA 5005 AUSTRALIA

Phone: +61 8 8313 1044
Fax: +61 8 8313 4341
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Mobile Language Team
230 North Tce, Level 3
Phone: +61 8 8313 0707
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Napier Building Undercroft (Ground)
North Terrace Campus
The University of Adelaide
SA 5005 Australia

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Mon, Tues, Wed, Fri 9am-5pm
Thurs 11am-5pm

Phone: +61 8 8313 5245
Facsimile: +61 8 8313 4382

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Seminars

At these seminars visiting academics report on research, students present research in progress, and staff provide support for students undertaking their dissertation. The seminars are also a good opportunity to discuss ideas and engage with other students.

Linguistics Research Seminar 2012

Convener: Prof Ghil'ad Zuckermann

SEMESTER ONE EVERY TUESDAY AT 2PM,
LIGERTWOOD (LAW BUILDING) 423

SEMESTER TWO EVERY MONDAY AT 1PM,
NAPIER LG23, 23 JULY - 10 SEPTEMBER

SEMESTER TWO EVERY MONDAY AT 1PM,
NAPIER LG23, 8 OCTOBER - 22 OCTOBER

28 February	Introducing Ourselves
6 March	Sally Collyns, Adelaide From Istanbul to Adelaide - Reflections on a Career in English Language Teaching
13 March	Professor Michael Katz, University of Haifa, Israel Cognitive Impact of Grammatical Gender in the Israeli Language
20 March	(A) Handoyo Puji Widodo, Adelaide Developing English Materials for Content and Language Integrated Learning (CLIL) Purposes: A Blended Principled Framework; (B) Jasmin Morley, Adelaide The Importance of ‘Esoteric' Functions of Language in Human Society
27 March	Dr Amy Perfors, Psychology, Adelaide Computational Models of Language Acquisition: What Can They Tell Us?
17 April	(A) Dr Tim Curnow, UniSA Language education in Australian schools: Commonwealth policy versus state-level implementation; (B) Napatsinee Vichaidit, Adelaide The Discourse of Thai Police Officers and Foreign Tourists in Thailand
24 April	(A) James McElvenny, University of Sydney Scientists or engineers? Academic linguists and the international language movement, 1879-1951; (B) Jodie Martin, Adelaide Being jazz in student writing
1 May	Dr Christine Nicholls, Flinders University Warlpiri Nicknaming - A Sociolinguistic Perspective
8 May	Dr Rob Amery, Adelaide Taking to the Airwaves: A Strategy for Language Revival
15 May	(A) Aiyoub Pineh, Adelaide Exploring the Impact of Genre-Based Pedagogy in Developing Grammatical Metaphor in Students' Writing; (B) Abdulrahman Alhaidari, Adelaide Cross-cultural Setting of Language Teaching in a Saudi Arabian Context.
22 May	Professor Peter Sutton, South Australian Museum Giving Away Language: Praxis vs Ideology in the Loss of Linguistic Diversity
29 May	Nicola Fanning, Flinders University Speech Pathology
5 June	Revd Dr Matthew Anstey, Principal, St Barnabas' Theological College, Adelaide Narratives in Biblical Hebrew: Grammatical indicators of plot

Please contact Professor Zuckermann if you would like to give a presentation/lecture.
University of Adelaide
Prof Ghil'ad Zuckermann
Discipline of Linguistics
Tel: 08 8313 5247
Mob: 0423 901 808

Some past presentations

Professor Ghil'ad Zuckermann: Israeli, Hebrew and Semitic Morphology (15 August 2011).
Prof Eija Ventola (Visiting Professor, University of Helsinki): Tourism Linguistics
Dr Karmila Mokoginta: Intercultural Analysis of Indonesian and Australian Students' Nonverbal Behaviour
Nayia Cominos: Academic literacy in undergraduate linguistics students
Dr Rob Amery: Language Reclamation - Kaurna Case Study
Celine Chu: Pedagogic discourse in guided reading genres
Hiromi Teramoto: Sociolinguistic representation of identity in first and second language
Johanna Motteram: "Tone" and language test rating scale descriptors