Gillian Wigglesworth
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| Born | 18 August 1951 |
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| Website | Wigglesworth on the website of the University of Melbourne |
Professor Gillian Wigglesworth FAHA is an Australian linguist, Redmond Barry Distinguished Professor[1] in Linguistics and Applied Linguistics, and former Deputy Dean of the Faculty of Arts at The University of Melbourne.
Wigglesworth holds a Ph.D. in Linguistics from La Trobe University (Melbourne, Australia), She is a member of the School of Languages and Linguistics at the University of Melbourne, where she was founding Director of the Research Unit for Indigenous Language.[2] She was Chief Investigator, with Jane Simpson and Patrick McConvell, in the Aboriginal Child Language Acquisition Projects, funded by ARC Discovery Grants (2004–2007, 2011–2015),[3][4][5][6] and was a Chief Investigator in the Australian Research Council (ARC) Centre of Excellence for the Dynamics of Language.[7] In 2016, she was also Deputy Dean of the Faculty of Arts at The University of Melbourne, and in 2011 she was the Vice President of the International Language Testing Association.[8]
She was elected a Fellow of the Australian Academy of the Humanities in 2023.[9]
Research
Her research interests focus on language acquisition, including first language acquisition, second language acquisition, language teaching, testing and assessment,[10][11][12] and bilingualism,[13][14][15][16] particularly the home and school languages of Indigenous Australian children living in remote communities.[17][18][19][20]
Key publications
- (2005) Murray D. and G. Wigglesworth. First Language Support in Adult ESL in Australia. Sydney: Macquarie University.
- (2007) Ng, B. and G. Wigglesworth. Bilingualism: an advanced resource book. Routledge.
- (2008) Simpson, J. and G. Wigglesworth. Children's language and multilingualism: Indigenous language use at home and school. London: Continuum.
- (2013) Meakins, F. and G. Wigglesworth. 'How much input is enough? Correlating comprehension and child language input in an endangered language.' Journal of Multilingual & Multicultural Development, Multilingual Matters, vol. 34, issue 2, pp. 171–188.
- (2013) Loakes, D., K. Moses, G. Wigglesworth, J. Simpson and R. Billington. 'Children's language input: A study of a remote multilingual Indigenous Australian community.' Multilingua, vol. 32, issue 5, pp. 683–711.
- (2018) Wigglesworth, G, J. Simpson & J. Vaughan (eds). Language Practices of Indigenous Children and Youth: The Transition from Home to School. London: Palgrave Macmillan UK.
