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Name: Dr Paul Black Dr Paul Black
Qualifications: BA Indiana
GCertTertiaryT Northern Territory
GDipTESL Darwin IT
MPhil
PhD Yale
Main role: Senior Lecturer - Applied Linguistics
Phone: +61 8 8946 7761
Fax: +61 8 8946 7144
Email: paul.black@cdu.edu.au
Address: Centre for Access and ESL
Faculty of Education, Health and Science
Charles Darwin University
Darwin NT 0909
Australia


Research Interests

My current research interests include:

  • Australian languages
  • The phylogenetic classification of languages
  • Issues of culture and identity in language teaching

Recent Publications

  1. Black, P. (2005). Ethnoreconstruction in Kok-Papónk. In: Fortesque, M., Skafte, E.J., Mogensen, J.E. and Schøsler, L. (eds). Historical Linguistics 2003: Selected papers from the 16th International Conference on Historical Linguistics, Copenhagen, 11-15 August 2003, John Benjamins, Amsterdam, pp 21-29.
  2. Black, P. (2004). The failure of the evidence of shared innovations in Cape York Peninsula. In: Bowern, C. and Koch, H. (eds). Australian Languages: Classification and the comparative method, Benjamins, Amsterdam, pp 241-67.
  3. Black, P. (2004). What is communicative competence? In: Conlan, C. (ed.). Teaching English language in Australia: Theoretical perspectives and practical issues. API Network, Perth, pp 33-47.
  4. Black, P. and Goebel, Z. (2004). Nobody's a native speaker of everything: Teaching dialectical variety and code choice. Kajian Sastra: Jurnal Bidang Kebahasaan, Kesusastraan dan Kebudayaan [Kajian Sastra: Journal of Language, Literature and Culture], 28 (1), pp 1-12.
  5. Goebel, Z. and Black, P. (2003). Language variation in Indonesia: A learner-centred multi media exploration of the functions of Indonesian vis-à-vis regional languages. In Prof. Drs. Sudaryono (Eds.), Sang Motivator Yang Sejati: Kumpulau karangan persembahan untuk Prof. Drs. Sudjati (pp. 17). Semarang, Indonesia: Fakultas Sastra Universitas Diponegoro.
  6. Black, P. and Goebel, Z. (2002). Multiliteracies and the Teaching of Indonesian. Babel 37 (1), pp 22-6, 38.
  7. Black, P. and Breen, G. (2001). The School of Australian Linguistics. In: Simpson, J., Nash, D., Laughren, M., Austin, P. & Alpher, B. (eds). Forty years on: Ken Hale and Australian languages. Pacific Linguistics, Australian National University, Canberra, pp 161-78.
  8. Black, P. and Goebel, Z. (2001). A student-centered multimedia exploration of code choice in Indonesia. In: White, J. (ed.), FLEAT IV: The Fourth Conference on Foreign Language Education and Technology July 28 to August 1, 2000: Proceedings. Japan Association for Language Education and Technology, n.p.: pp 633-638.
  9. Black, P. (1997). Lexicostatistics and Australian languages: Problems and prospects. In: Tryon, D. and Walsh, M. (eds). Boundary rider: Essays in honour of Geoffrey O'Grady. Pacific Linguistics, ser. C, no. 136, pp 51-69.
  10. Black, P. (1995). The dance of language: Some practical linguistic approaches. Centre for Studies of Language in Education, Northern Territory University, Darwin.
  11. Black, P. (1993). New uses for old languages. In: Walsh, M. and Yallop, C. (eds). Language in Aboriginal Australia. Aboriginal Studies Press, Canberra, pp 207-223.
  12. Dyen, I., Kruskal, J.B. and Black, P. (1992). An Indoeuropean classification: A lexicostatistical experiment. = Transactions of the American Philosophical Society, 82 (5).
  13. Black, P. (1990). Some competing goals in Aboriginal language planning. In: Baldauf, R.B. Jr., and Luke, A. (eds). Language planning and education in Australasia and the South Pacific. Multilingual Matters, Clevedon, pp 80-88.

Current Projects




Recent Completions Supervised

Doctor of Teaching

  • Li Wang: Teaching Chinese culture to adult learners in Australia. Lodged: 04/04/03

PhD

  • Zane Goebel: Communicative competence in Indonesian: Language choice in inter-ethnic interactions in Semarang. Lodged: 21/08/01

Masters

  • Paul Anthony Etherington: Nggem morphology and Syntax. Lodged: 03/12/02
  • Gilles G. Gravelle: Meyah morphology and syntax. Lodged: 25/02/02
  • Christopher Milne: Defining the 'good' English teacher: Japanese ELICOS students' perceptions. Lodged: 24/02/99

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