Teaching Creole-Speaking Children: Issues, concerns and resolutions for the classroom
Edited by Gillian Wigglesworth
Special issue of Australian Review of Applied Linguistics 36:3 (2013) 131 pp.
Gillian Wigglesworth
List of John Benjamins publications for which Gillian Wigglesworth plays a role.
Titles
Subjects Applied linguistics | Corpus linguistics | Discourse studies | Language acquisition | Language policy | Language teaching | Multilingualism | Pragmatics | Translation Studies | Writing and literacy
The Language Testing Cycle: From inception to washback
Edited by Gillian Wigglesworth and Catherine Elder
[Australian Review of Applied Linguistics. Series S, 13] 1996. ii, 242 pp.
Subjects Applied linguistics | Language acquisition | Language teaching
Language and Gender in the Australian Context
Edited by Joanne Winter and Gillian Wigglesworth
[Australian Review of Applied Linguistics. Series S, 10] 1993. iii, 181 pp.
Subjects Applied linguistics | Language acquisition | Language teaching
Articles
2013 Editorial Teaching Creole-Speaking Children: Issues, concerns and resolutions for the classroom, Wigglesworth, Gillian (ed.), pp. 231–233 | Miscellaneous
2013 Teaching creole-speaking children: Issues, concerns and resolutions for the classroom Teaching Creole-Speaking Children: Issues, concerns and resolutions for the classroom, Wigglesworth, Gillian (ed.), pp. 234–249 | Article
There are now significant numbers of children who speak a language other than English when they enter the formal school system in Australia. Many of these children come from a language background that is entirely different from the school language. Many Indigenous children, however, come from… read more
2011 Naplan language assessments for Indigenous children in remote communities: Issues and problems Australian Languages: A challenge for applied linguistics, Walsh, Michael (ed.), pp. 320–343 | Article
The National Assessment Program - Literacy and Numeracy (NAPLAN) assessments are designed to assess literacy and numeracy of all Australian school children in years 3, 5, 7 and 9, and to act as diagnostics as to whether children are meeting intended educational outcomes. Tests began in May 2008,… read more
2010 Pair interactions and mode of communication: Comparing face-to-face and computer mediated communication Sociocognitive Approaches to Second Language Pedagogy, Dyson, Bronwen Patricia (ed.), pp. 27.1–27.24 | Article
In today’s second language classrooms, students are often asked to work in pairs or small groups. Such collaboration can take place face-to-face, but now more often via computer mediated communication. This paper reports on a study which investigated the effect of the medium of communication on the… read more
1996 Perspectives on the testing cycle: Setting the scene The Language Testing Cycle: From inception to washback, Wigglesworth, Gillian and Catherine Elder (eds.), pp. 1–12 | Article
1994 Patterns of rater behaviour in the assessment of an oral interaction test Australian Review of Applied Linguistics 17:2, pp. 77–103 | Article
Lack of inter-rater agreement in the assessment of oral tests is wellknown. In this paper, multi-faceted Rasch analysis was used to determine whether any bias was evident in the way a group of raters (N=13) rated two different versions of an oral interaction test, undertaken by the same candidates… read more
1993 Language and gender: A case study for applied linguistics in Australia Language and Gender in the Australian Context, Winter, Joanne and Gillian Wigglesworth (eds.), pp. 1–12 | Article
In our introductory discussion to this Series S volume on language and gender in Australia we argue for the recognition of gender research in a broadened interpretation of applied linguistics. We forecast the place of feminist (applied)1 linguists within a wider understanding of the applications… read more