Gillian Wigglesworth

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First language acquisition

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University of Melbourne

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Professor Gillian Wigglesworth {{Post-nominals|country=AUS|FAHA}} is an Australian linguist, Redmond Barry Distinguished Professor{{Cite web | url=https://about.unimelb.edu.au/notable-alumni-staff/distinguished-professors |title = The University's Redmond Barry Distinguished Professors|date = 2018-03-02}} in Linguistics and Applied Linguistics, and former Deputy Dean of the Faculty of Arts at The University of Melbourne.

Career

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.{{Cite web|url=http://indiglang.arts.unimelb.edu.au/people|title=Research Unit for Indigenous Language staff|date=2015|website=Research Unit for Indigenous Language|accessdate=1 June 2015}} 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),{{Cite web | url=https://arts.unimelb.edu.au/soll/research/past-research-projects/acla1 |title = Aboriginal Child Language Acquisition Project (ACLA1) — School of Languages and Linguistics|date = 2016-10-04}}{{Cite web | url=https://arts.unimelb.edu.au/soll/research/past-research-projects/acla2 |title = Aboriginal Child Language Acquisition Project (ACLA2) — School of Languages and Linguistics|date = 2016-10-04}}{{cite journal|doi=10.25120/etropic.12.1.2013.3395|url=https://journals.jcu.edu.au/etropic/article/viewFile/3395/3335|title=From Linguistic Research Findings to Useful Products for Australian Aboriginal Communities|journal=ETropic: Electronic Journal of Studies in the Tropics|volume=12|year=2016|last1=Laughren|first1=Mary|doi-access=free}}{{cite book|author1=Koch, H. |author2= R. Nordlinger|year= 2014 |chapter=The languages of Australia in linguistic research: context and issues'| editor1=Koch, Harold|editor2=Nordlinger, Rachel| title=The languages and linguistics of Australia : a comprehensive guide | publisher=De Gruyter | isbn=978-3-11-027969-6 }} and was a Chief Investigator in the Australian Research Council (ARC) Centre of Excellence for the Dynamics of Language.{{Cite web|title=Chief Investigators|url=https://legacy.dynamicsoflanguage.edu.au/stories/chief_investigator.php|date=2015|website=ARC Centre of Excellence for the Dynamics of Language|accessdate=24 January 2025}} 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.{{Cite web|url=http://www.iltaonline.com/index.php/enUS/component/content/article?id=22|title=International Language Testing Association|access-date=2016-09-07|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160916212933/http://www.iltaonline.com/index.php/enUS/component/content/article?id=22|archive-date=2016-09-16|url-status=dead}}

She was elected a Fellow of the Australian Academy of the Humanities in 2023.{{Cite web |title=Fellow Profile – Gillian (Jill) Wigglesworth |url=https://humanities.org.au/fellows/fellow-profile/?fellow_id=1229 |access-date=2023-11-22 |website=Australian Academy of the Humanities |language=en-AU}}

Research

Her research interests focus on language acquisition, including first language acquisition, second language acquisition, language teaching, testing and assessment,{{Cite journal |jstor = 1192796|last1 = Evans|first1 = Eston E.|title = Reviewed work: Studies in Immigrant English Language Assessment. Volume 1, Geoff Brindley|journal = The Modern Language Journal|volume = 86|issue = 1|pages = 155–156|year = 2002}}{{Cite journal |jstor = 3588833|last1 = Cumming|first1 = Alister|title = Reviewed work: The Kaleidoscope of Adult Second Language Learning: Learner, Teacher and Researcher Perspectives, Gillian Wigglesworth|journal = The Modern Language Journal|volume = 90|issue = 1|pages = 139–140|year = 2006}}{{Cite journal |jstor = 330345|last1 = Kenyon|first1 = Dorry M.|title = Reviewed work: Access: Issues in Language Test Design and Delivery, Geoff Brindley, Gillian Wigglesworth|journal = The Modern Language Journal|volume = 83|issue = 2|pages = 274–276|year = 1999}} and bilingualism,{{Cite journal |doi = 10.1177/1367006908098574|title = Book Review: Ng Bee Chin and Gililan Wigglesworth, Bilingualism: An Advanced Resource Book (Routledge, Taylor & Francis, 2007)|journal = International Journal of Bilingualism|volume = 12|issue = 4|pages = 321–323|year = 2008|s2cid = 220820838}}{{Cite journal |jstor = 44485841|last1 = Heredia|first1 = Roberto R.|title = Reviewed work: Bilingualism: An Advanced Resource Book, Ng Bee Chin, Gillian Wigglesworth|journal = Studies in Second Language Acquisition|volume = 31|issue = 1|pages = 127–128|year = 2009|doi = 10.1017/S027226310909007X| s2cid=144334064 }}{{Cite journal |jstor = 24547988|last1 = Edel|first1 = Kristina|title = Reviewed work: Einführung in die Mehrsprachigkeitsforschung. 3. überarbeitete Auflage [1. Auflage 2006], Natascha Müller, Tanja Kupisch, Karin Schmitz, Katja Cantone; Bilingualism – an Advanced Resource Book. (Routledge Applied Linguistics), Ng Nee Chin, Gillian Wigglesworth|journal = Zeitschrift für Dialektologie und Linguistik|volume = 80|issue = 1|pages = 109–110|year = 2013}}{{Cite journal |jstor = 40264074|last1 = Price|first1 = Joseph Edward|title = Reviewed work: Bilingualism: An Advanced Resource Book, Gillian Wigglesworth, Ng Bee Chin|journal = The Modern Language Journal|volume = 93|issue = 2|pages = 311–312|year = 2009|doi = 10.1111/j.1540-4781.2009.00870_11.x}} particularly the home and school languages of Indigenous Australian children living in remote communities.{{Cite journal |jstor = 44488110|last1 = King|first1 = Kendall A.|title = Reviewed work: CHILDRen's LANGUAGE and Multilingualism: Indigenous Language Use at Home and School, Jane Simpson, Gillian Wigglesworth|journal = Studies in Second Language Acquisition|volume = 32|issue = 1|pages = 159–160|year = 2010|doi = 10.1017/S0272263109990416| s2cid=145136784 }}{{Cite news | url=https://atesolnt.org.au/video/professor-gillian-wigglesworth-university-of-melbourne/ |title = Professor Gillian Wigglesworth, University of Melbourne| newspaper=Atesol Nt }}{{Cite web|url=http://www.supremecourt.nt.gov.au/conferences/documents/presenter-info/Dr%20Samantha%20Disbray%20-%20Communication%20matters.pdf| title=Communication Matters: new language varieties and new interactions in legal contexts |first1=Samantha|last1=Disbray}}{{Cite journal |jstor = 40856204|last1 = Train|first1 = Robert|title = Reviewed work: Children's Language and Multilingualism: Indigenous Language Use at Home and School, Jane Simpson, Gillian Wigglesworth|journal = The Modern Language Journal|volume = 94|issue = 3|pages = 526–528|year = 2010|doi = 10.1111/j.1540-4781.2010.01083.x}}

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.

References

External links

[http://languages-linguistics.unimelb.edu.au/about/staff/professor-gillian-wigglesworth Home — School of Languages and Linguistics]
[http://indiglang.arts.unimelb.edu.au/ Home — Research Unit for Indigenous Language]
[http://www.dynamicsoflanguage.edu.au/ Home – Centre of Excellence for the Dynamics of Language]

Category:Applied linguists

Category:Linguists from Australia

Category:Academic staff of the University of Melbourne

Category:La Trobe University alumni

Category:Living people

Category:Australian women linguists

Category:1944 births

Category:Fellows of the Australian Academy of the Humanities