Robyn Ober

List of John Benjamins publications in which Robyn Ober is involved.

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Strengthening Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Language Learning

Edited by Robyn Ober, Carly Steele and Alistair Harvey

Special issue of Australian Review of Applied Linguistics 49:2 (2026) v, 166 pp.

Ober, Robyn, Carly Steele and Alistair Harvey 2026 Working together for stronger Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander languages: In the decade of Indigenous Languages Strengthening Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Language Learning, Ober, Robyn, Carly Steele and Alistair Harvey (eds.), pp. 153–167 | Introduction

Oliver, Rhonda and Robyn Ober 2026 Kidding around: Australian aboriginal children creating humour through translanguaging Australian Review of Applied Linguistics: Online-First Articles | Article

As with many First Nations peoples around the world, Australian Aboriginal peoples have suffered dispossession and continue to experience educational and socio-economic disadvantage. This narrative, however, fails to recognise their inherent strength reflected in over 65,000 years of living… read more

Ober, Robyn, Sender Dovchin and Rhonda Oliver 2024 Chapter 11. “Where you from, who’s your Mob?”: Ethical considerations when undertaking Australian Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander applied linguistic research Ethical Issues in Applied Linguistics Scholarship, De Costa, Peter I., Amr Rabie-Ahmed and Carlo Cinaglia (eds.), pp. 192–209 | Chapter

In this chapter, we discuss how “yarning” — a traditional way of communicating, making and sharing meaning within Aboriginal society — may work as a research paradigm and methodology for qualitative ethnographic studies in applied linguistics. Yarning involves story telling as part of… read more

Ober, Robyn, Carly Steele and Alistair Harvey  Strengthening Aboriginal and Torres strait Islander language learning: For the next generation of language learners Australian Review of Applied Linguistics: Online-First Articles | Introduction