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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 is currently 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]
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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]
Gillian Wigglesworth | |
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Scientific career | |
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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 is currently 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]
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excessive number of citations. (September 2020) |
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]